RE: Psalm 137:9
February 19, 2012 at 11:11 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2012 at 11:14 pm by chi pan.)
(February 19, 2012 at 10:47 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(February 19, 2012 at 6:10 pm)Forsaken Wrote: "How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones against the rock," (Psalm 137:9).
Below is the take from one of the apologetics.
http://carm.org/bible-difficulties/job-s...g-children
In a nutshell:
1) Just because the bible says so does not mean God approves it. (I thought the bible was the word of God )
2) You cannot judge God on his morality. Even if he commits atrocities, humans have no right to judge him on that.
What else would you expect from scumbag bible thumpers?
Besides, you have to read the whole passage....
Quote: 7 Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.
9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
So because the Edomites were allegedly glad that Jerusalem fell - understandable as they were commercial rivals - it is the Babylonians who are going to have their infants dashed against the rocks. Except, that didn't happen either and the Persians took Babylon with little violence.
Meanwhile, the god who isn't there sat by cheering.
You really have to be fucked up to claim this stuff is righteous. You have to be more fucked up to claim it is real.
So God is supposed to give us free will and stop us from disobeying? What you expect to be righteous is a contradiction.
(February 19, 2012 at 11:00 pm)Faith No More Wrote:chipan Wrote:It's contradictory because David prayed for Destruction while someone else in the book of joshoah prayed for piece?
Prayed for piece of what?
Babylon
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem