RE: God so hated the world
October 5, 2020 at 8:38 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2020 at 8:47 pm by HappySkeptic.)
(October 5, 2020 at 5:06 pm)Drich Wrote: read the the noah account again sport. he did not kill humans. he killed neiphium that had taken over. according to the book of enoch they ate people. genesis says that wicked generation worshiped these angel demon hybrids/demi gods. this means sacrifice... what do you think these worshipers sacrificed to their ravenously hungry gods when all their food ran out? how could they worship if they sacrificed themselves? their children smart guy.. God killed these monster and the monster who sacrificed their children to satiate these demon hybrids.
That's just plain wrong. The Nephilum are a placeholder for myths of supermen or giants. Basically like Greek demigods. Are you literally saying that there were no humans left on Earth? Then where did Noah come from?
No reading of the bible supports your interpretation. Plus, do you really believe the story?
(October 5, 2020 at 5:06 pm)Drich Wrote: no only a twisted brainwashed mind would take that from the book of job. i see a god who challenged satan or tested satan by allowing him to challenge job.. no where in that challenge did satan have to be evil to job. God did not say you must hurt or take from job. Satan could have very well sideed up next to job and become his best friend told him how to invest and made him a quadrillionaire, offered him immortality offered him anything this world offers. but no. satan allowed his true nature to show itself and he all but destroyed job!!!
I see it more as a bet. Satan bet God that if Job had everything he had taken away, Job would curse God. God basically said "the bet's on - just don't touch Job himself".
God explicitly gave Satan permission to take away all that Job had. Including his family (as family are possessions under a patriarchy).
God's only answer for why he allowed the bet was so that God would be glorified in being proved right, and in restoring Job with riches and a new family (the old ones being dead).
The moral of Job (my interpretation) is "bad things happen because God just wants it that way. Maybe you'll get something good in the end if you keep praising God in your misery".
