ABikerSailor
Diamond Member
So you post all that, and call me clueless. Which I find insulting.
God gave Adam and Eve one chance, can you refute otherwise?
They ate from the apple, and were tossed out of paradise pretty quickly.
How about making Abraham bringing his son Issac up to the hill to almost kill him for a test? A TEST?
What kind of sick fuck does that? I can tell you right now, if Abraham did anything of the sort today and it was reported to the police that they arrest Abraham's ass so fast. Hell, they especially be interested when he says that God told him to do it.
How about the Story of Job? When God decides to give Satan permission to fuck with Job because Satan ACCUSES Job of only being pious because he is prosperous. Satan puts Job through trial after trial. Finally, at the end God restores everything and doubles it because Job passed his "test."
Now if God is omnipotent, why did he do this? To prove Satan wrong, a bet basically. Put a man through hell, kill his children, and inflict much damage upon him to just prove someone wrong.
God approves of slaughter for many things we'd balk at today in the O.T. Things such as killing sons of sinners (God had quite a obsession with killing first born sons in the O.T), killing the good Samaritan, killing people who work on the sabbath, killing false prophets, killing followers of other religions, killing women who are not virgins on their wedding night, killing an entire town if one person worships another God, death for cursing parents, killing witches, killing homosexuals, killing people who don't listen to priests. (I'm sure the priests quoted that one often).
And here is the thing, Christians can not ignore the O.T or invalidate it simply because it does not fit their views. It exists, it is still taught today in the church, and it's part of the history. It would be like if the U.S. decided to ignore the fact we had Slavery for all those years or the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Dunno if I'd call you clueless Robert, I kinda think that you've got some brilliant insight quite often.
However..........
If you place what you just wrote in the lessons of a Sensei teaching a student, they kinda make sense.
Kill Bill (pts 1 and 2), Karate Kid (remember when Mr. Miyagi turned and made him work, and THEN showed him what he'd learned)?
Trust me Robert, it makes sense.