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YHWH's regret
October 2, 2016 at 11:20 pm
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According to the Biblical version of the Mesopotamian flood narrative, YHWH is described as being capable of experiencing regret for his own actions.
Since the wide variety of all human thought and behavior could practically be charted as a continuous gradient, rather than "all good or all bad," does it make sense that this god, when tasked with the even more difficult duty of judging people eternally for their finite *cough*crimes *cough* might ever regret his decision to save one person from eternal punishment, but not another?
...or might his selection process just be a continuation of his laziness from the Noah's Ark story. "Alright listen up, sinners, you 144,000 can stay, but everyone else GTFO. Oh, that was fun. Don't you guy's just love me so much?  You'd better say yes, medamnit!!! "
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RE: YHWH's regret
October 2, 2016 at 11:26 pm
Hmm.
"Regret" is an odd emotion for an entity capable of seeing the big (well, biggest, obviously) picture.
Interesting to contemplate how He might have inspired that to have been written about Himself. Like, how could the thought arise in the first place?
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RE: YHWH's regret
October 2, 2016 at 11:34 pm
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RE: YHWH's regret
October 3, 2016 at 2:34 am
Also, this is his own propaganda. About himself. And he still manages to come off as an incompetent fool not worthy of the powers he somehow stumbled across.
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RE: YHWH's regret
October 3, 2016 at 4:30 am
"Regret" certainly implies "mistake".
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RE: YHWH's regret
October 3, 2016 at 4:43 am
(October 3, 2016 at 2:34 am)robvalue Wrote: Also, this is his own propaganda. About himself. And he still manages to come off as an incompetent fool not worthy of the powers he somehow stumbled across.
But you make that sound like a bad thing. Isn't being bellicose, self-absorbed and indifferent to the suffering of real people pretty much business as usual amongst the godly class?
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RE: YHWH's regret
October 3, 2016 at 4:44 am
(October 3, 2016 at 4:30 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: "Regret" certainly implies "mistake".
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RE: YHWH's regret
October 3, 2016 at 4:53 am
(October 3, 2016 at 4:43 am)Whateverist Wrote: (October 3, 2016 at 2:34 am)robvalue Wrote: Also, this is his own propaganda. About himself. And he still manages to come off as an incompetent fool not worthy of the powers he somehow stumbled across.
But you make that sound like a bad thing. Isn't being bellicose, self-absorbed and indifferent to the suffering of real people pretty much business as usual amongst the godly class?
Yeah, good point.
I'd have thought it would put people off a little. Guess not! It's so rare I hear of a believer who isn't an adherent.
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RE: YHWH's regret
October 3, 2016 at 5:11 am
Most fundy xtians just have a suck-up disposition toward despots.
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