@Adalast
Exodus 21, 20-21
20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.
@FlyingSquid @ekZepp
& especially when several prominent atheists instantly answer & explain 'this'.
@cheesymoonshadow
Prayer is for when you think God's plan isn't good enough & you want him to change it to your plan.
@FlyingSquid @magnolia_mayhem
Turns out he was lying anyway & the 'deceptive' serpent was telling the truth.
@i_have_no_enemies
And he received push back from the science community who thought he was trying to shoe horn religion into science.
You gotta be careful with that scientific confidence thing.
@MrJameGumb @zarkanian
That whole punishment for not resisting the temptation of looking back seems to have been borrowed from the Greek myth of Orpheus & Eurydice. Like many other biblical stories.
@not_that_guy05 @Lanky_Pomegranate530
Every prayer for action is an attempt to get God to change his divine plan because you think your plan is better.
At the very least, praying is patting God on the back & saying 'keep up the good work'.
@Valmond Yes