I'm sure Jesus existed but like David most of what we know has been stretched for the benefit of others.
There was a political purpose for the writing of all these stories and some included covering up orders to kill.
After all if you're following God's orders it is not really killing and you're not really breaking one of the ten commandments. So pack a picnic lunch and some bubbly and make a day out of it.
A mindless automaton doing the Lord's work.
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From the Book of No Happy Endings...
“…they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day…Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘The man must surely be put to death”…So as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.” "And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the WOMEN alive?
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." |
