(September 10, 2022 at 6:06 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Just to be clear:
The passage in Ezekiel 23 is a metaphor for Samaria and Jerusalem engaging in foreign alliances.
The passages in Ezekiel 4 show God rescinding a punishment.
In the passage from 1 Kings, ‘pisseth against the wall’ is an idiom for ‘men’. No actual piss is involved.
The passage from Malachi about smearing dung on faces is an expression meaning ‘disgraced’, in much the same sense that referring to a drunk person as ‘shitfaced’ doesn’t require actual shit on an actual face.
It helpful to read entire chapters, not just verses.
Boru
Lol, even as metaphors these verses portray a disturbing person because he (God) could have used different (normal) metaphors than shit and donkey orgasms.
Imagine if someone said to you "Your posts are like donkey diarrhea smeared all over your face while a mule is rubbing her wet lusty cunt on your nose." Would you not think that the person is disturbing for using such metaphors?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
