Showing posts with label Bible stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bible stories. Show all posts

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Something God Cannot Do In Battle


Judges 1:19 - God's kryptonite - Iron
So build yourself a iron bunker and he cannot harm you.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

How Do People Get Sucked Into Believing

Do you find you when you watch a movie you identify with the winning side and so want to see the bad guys get theirs? I do this all the time.

In Terminator 1 I didn't want Arnold as the terminator to win, but Sarah Connor because she was on the winning side and the underdog. I could see that right off. With Terminator 2 I wanted Arnold to win because now he had become the underdog good guy.

In the Bible you see this same conflict of good versus evil and who wouldn't want the good guys to win and be also one of the good guys. The Bible is extremely black and white and shows story after story you win if you are on God's team. As in the Terminator the bad guys can turn and be good after a bit of reprogramming.

The stories of the Old Testament are just that. You can be a bad guy but if you get reprogrammed you can become the underdog good guy. So many underdogs in the Bible including the all powerful, all knowing Jesus, quite the mix eh? Powerful like a terminator. The New Testament is like Terminator II.

The northern kingdom Israel didn't worship Jehovah exclusively and as bad guys they were captured by Assyria and taken there. The southern kingdom mostly worshiped God exclusively. Hezekiah was the shining example, the good guy's guy. But ultimately they became bad guys and the Babylonians captured them and took them to Babylon. But then in exile they became the good guys again and yeah!, they won. If you worship God exclusively you win, otherwise you lose and all this happens in the final minutes of the movie of life, well for us death because bible stories just don't happen anymore. So odd when we could now record it all.

I find mostly when I read the Bible, let's now call it a obvious piece of literature, even now I root for the obvious good guys. The myths were built up to make you want to be one of the good guys. If you read it with a skeptics mind you quickly see there really isn't any good guys, they are killing, raping, robbing just like the bad guys. AND THE THINGS ALL CHRISTIANS MISS is Jehovah-Jesus is just like the bad guys, no different. You might call them even human like (snicker)

Monday, January 31, 2011

Bible Quiz - Guess Which Book Of The Bible

Here is a challenge for Bible believers. Read this text and guess which book of the Bible it is from. If that is too hard try to guess whether it is the old or new testament? The answer is in the link. Don't peek before guessing. Good luck.

We give thee, Lord, sovereignty over the whole world.
Sit thou down in might; be exalted in thy command.
Thy weapon shall never lose its power; it shall crush thy foe.
O Lord, spare the life of him that putteth his trust in thee

He made ready the bow, he chose his weapon,
He slung a spear upon him and fastened it...
He raised the club, in his right hand he grasped it,
The bow and the quiver he hung at his side.
He set the lightning in front of him,
With burning flame he filled his body.

Then the Lord raised the thunderbolt, his mighty weapon,
He mounted the chariot, the storm unequaled for terror,
He harnessed and yoked unto it four horses,
Destructive, ferocious, overwhelming, and swift of pace;

His garment was a glowing flame , he was clothed with terror,
With overpowering brightness his head was crowned.
Then he set out, he took his way,
And toward the raging Tiamat he set his face.

Select one
a) The New Testament
b) The Old Testament

Select one
a) The book of Revelation, chapter 15
b) Psalms 74
c) Proverbs 22
d) Deuteronomy 17



Sunday, October 24, 2010

Bridegroom Of Blood

The Bible's second book called Exodus is the story of Moses and how he led his people out of Egypt. Moses was found by Pharoah's daughter in a river and she took him as her own while conveniently finding Moses's real mother who nursed him. Moses grew up in the house of Pharoah, but he knew he was a Hebrew and felt this need to save them. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew and Moses killed the Egyptian. Later he saw two Hebrews fighting and told them to stop. One of them said "Who made you ruler over us? Are you going to kill me like you did the Egyptian?". This freaked him out so he ran away to live in Midian.

Times passes. He gets married to Zipporah. Then one day he was tending his father-in-law's (Jethro) flock. He sees a bush burning and then God calls out to him from the bush. God lets Moses in on His plan that He will use him to lead his people out of Egypt. Moses is reluctant. So God gives Moses some magical tricks. First trick is He tells Moses to throw down his staff and in doing so it turns into a snake which scares Moses, but God tells him to pick it up by the tail and it turns back to a staff. Second trick is God tells him to put his hand inside his cloak and then pull it out. His hand now is gross, it looks like leprosy. He tells Moses to put it back in and pull it out. All better. Third trick is to take some water from the Nile and pour it on dry ground. It will turn to blood. Moses may be impressed but he still is worried because he has some speech impediment. So God agrees to use Aaron as Moses' mouthpiece.

God spent a lot of time preparing Moses for His divine plan and God surely must know the future. Seems God would be real good at having all his ducks in a row.

Moses tells his father-in-law he needs to go back to Egypt. Jethro (Bodeen?) wishes him well. God again speaks to Moses and said "Everyone is dead who would harm you, go back to Egypt and when you get there do all the great tricks. And even though I have given you all these neat tricks to impress Pharaoh he will not believe you because I, God Jehovah, have harden his heart". Oy! What a game. God even up front tells Moses to threaten Pharoah in that God will kill Pharoah's own firstborn son because he will not let God's first born child, Israel, go. So, Moses with family and friends in tow sets out for Egypt. Appears the divine plan is now in play.

Immediately without explanation this is the next text:

Exodus 4:24-26
At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met [Moses] and was about to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched [Moses’] feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.)

WHAT??? That is the entire story. The next text is Moses meeting his brother Aaron along the way and them kissing each other.

So, God didn't see that coming until Moses left? God blabs on and on and gives Moses all these tricks and His great divine plan to free His people. Was this an after-thought? Was God rehearsing in his mind all the stuff He meant to tell Moses and then went "Shit, I forgot about the circumcision thing" and rushed down to kill Moses? Wouldn't a friendly reminder at the burning bush have been sufficient? Bizarre. Apparently this God isn't all-knowing and a tad forgetful and instead of being pissed at Himself he takes it out on His dopey creation. Typical !

Anyway I think it would make a great band name. Ladies and Gentleman, give a great round of applause for the "Bridegroom Of Blood". Crowd roars "Yeahhh!!!!"