Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (35101)	9/14/2017 3:23:04 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 364351

My favorite is 2Kings 2:23-25. I couldn't get the verses to post properly, but they describe Elisha getting ticked off at some kids calling him "baldy" so he complains to God. Then God sends a couple of she-bears who proceed to rip up 42 kids. There are myriad attempts by scholars to explain away or whitewash this passage, none of which resonate with me. That goes with most of the other attributions of violence to God. My assumption is that most of these type of accounts came from uninspired writers who were fear-mongering their followers. This kind of writing back then also reveals a misunderstanding of the gift of free will that Wharf and I touched on last night. Just as one shouldn't ask God to change someone else (it simply won't happen), one can't logically ask God to punish someone else. Early writers saw God as more interventionist than did later writers--all of whose writings came to be included in what was eventually considered the Holy Bible. It is a mystery why many of these weren't winnowed out during the King James conclaves, as that was a fairly enlightened period. OTOH, King James was a Catholic and the corruption of the Catholic church was at its peak.