I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
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I understand. I had an uncle who often got in trouble over the years for whipping stuff out.
Well played.
You forgot the laser beams coming out of the eyes to smite assholes like Er,
Not the artist but i have credited them by not removing his logo/sign from the art.
I just find that entire story… strange.
Like god just said “fuck you” and offed a jerk for no apparent reason. And then offed his brother because of levitate marriages and he refused, wanting the said jerk’s inheritance.
So of course the widow has to seduce their father to get a son so she doesn’t have to live in poverty.
What a beautiful and caring society they had.
And the lesson Catholics take from this? “Contraceptives are bad,”
Idk what you are talking about as i have never read much of the book but i'd like a tldr
It’s genesis 38, and a rather quick read if you’re that curious.
But the long and short of it is that Judah got his son, Er a wife, named Tamar. Er was “displeasing” or “evil in the sight of god”, so he got smote. That is, god killed him. Er had no heir, and in accordance with the time, she was married off the her brother-in-law Onan.
The idea being that Onan gets her pregnant and the son becomes Er’s heir. This provided Tamar with income since she would then manage her hypothetical son’s interests until he was of age.
Anyhow Onan wanted the inheritance for himself (he was next in line, and Judah was wealthy- the founding patriarch of the kingdom of Judah.)
So, he pulled out. (“Spilled his seed on the ground”.) so god offed him for being a greedy dick, too.
His third son was too young so Judah sent her back to her father, until he grew up (something that wasn’t honored.) so, one day Judah is going out to sheer some sheep, sees a prostitute and offers her a goat. The prostitute asks for collateral (his seal and some other stuff. A walking stick.); when Judah has a goat sent to the shrine for her, uh, service the messenger can’t find her and is told there’s no hookers.
A few months later, Judah is told Tamar is preggo, from prostitution, people want her stoned. So she goes before him and says she was never paid for sex, and therefore not a hooker; and that her child’s father gave her a seal. (Yup.)
The scripture did say that he didn’t do it again…(sure we believe you.)
Wow god cares a lot about others hooking up or not to kill them for it huh . What a fucking creep and wimp .
That's such a confusing story. Sounds like something a few goat herders from 2k years ago would come up with.
That's... Not the story you think it is...
Gen 38.
Go ahead, explain it to me… I linked it below, if you want to remind yourself of the text.
Restating the incorrect answer is not going to make it true, no matter how much snark you add, thanks.
You should probably read it. Yes, I paraphrased it a bit sarcastically, but I’m not wrong.
According to the story…. Judah's son- Er - is killed by god; more or less because he’s a jerk. Or because he was ugly. Or whatever.
Who knows.
He was wicked in the Lords sight
Which means….. what, exactly?
Think about the kinds of assholes that have been allowed to live throughout history. Either Er was absolutely worse than any other monster, or god’s reasoning was random. (Or, god is made in their image and they’re not particularly reasonable people.)
Dude. Are you ok? 🤦🏼♂️
I am kind of confused, actually. So god, the almighty being, Adam and Eve and the devil together in the garden of Eden. Why put the devil in the garden of Eden if you don't want it to lead the two people astray? But since god is all-knowing, it knew the devil was going to do that, so god created the situation for the "original sin" to happen instead of creating a perfect world where there is no sin.
It makes no actual sense.
Just wait till you get to the part where God makes a human version of himself that he sends down to the planet to be killed by the humans which for some reason will open the door to a perfect place that he could have opened at any time he wanted
if their story is to be believed, it was 100% intentional knowing all that would happen.
The only reasonable conclusion is that god wanted to LARP as the white knight and save everyone. I'd really hate to see what his Dark Side campaign looked like.
To be fair the idea of Satan hadn't been invented yet and in Genesis God is just one of many gods also that God isnt all good.
It gets confusing because the continuity errors from retrocons. Highly likely the original story was a group of gods created the world, one of those gods created a tribe, and another god decided to mess with that tribe. Later on the group of gods got condensed into one and the god that put the snake in got demoted to evil angel status.
The whole thing would make a lot more sense if God weren't all-knowing. Like, maybe he could just be unfathomably-knowing but not know literally everything?
Putting my Christian hat back on, I don't see anything wrong with that personally.
Shit, the Gnostics already knew this (and dearly paid for it). Few centuries later the Cathars underwent the exact same fate for the exact same reason.
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