Insane Biblical Statements

 

 

Well, I suppose that most of his contemporaries didn't like something that logical - and evident ....

These days people are not all that much into the Biblical teachings - or are they???? On some of the websites I visit I often see people proclaiming a somewhat threadbare religious belief in the teachings of The Bible as well as a deep set fright of Hell. They are clinging to the belief they were brought up to honor as "the truth" out of fear of the presumably eternal torture of those hellish flames. Strangely enough they are not afraid of that old bully, called Yahweh. To me that's a proof that they have never read  The Bible.

Nonetheless this Biblical god who started out as the toyboy of the supreme god, namely the goddess Asherah, comes out as a socipath, and not the Santa-clone that he has been made out to be. For instance: Yahweh sent two she-bears to maul 42 boys for calling a man “baldy.” (2 Kings 2:23-24). Just like that? Yes, just like that ....

Why did Yahweh send a plague that killed a lot of people, not one time, but many times, actually over and over? For instance: Exodus 16:13, Numbers 11:31-35 

As might be expected Yahweh don't like unruly children: Deuteronomy 21:18-21 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. - And: 2 Kings at 6:29: "So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son." To be "righteous" in the Biblical sense of the word sure has some grim implications, and this is not the only time The Bible says something about parents eating their offspring: You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. (Leviticus 26:27-29) 

Not only murder, but cannibalism seems to be part of Yahweh's philosophy, as it's mentioned over and over, like e.g. here: 2 Kings 6:28-29; Jeremiah 19:1-9; Leviticus 26:27-29, etc., etc.. Murder sure comes easy to this ancient deity, like e.g. when he kills Onan for not getting his brother’s wife pregnant: Genesis 38:8-10. 

It goes on and on with killings of the innocent (e.g. babies or fetuses), but some details about Adam and Eve are interesting, even today as they mirror what we know about gods before this murder-deity attained supremacy. The legend is that Eve was created from one of Adam’s ribs, which is so very, very patriarchal = Man didn't come from woman (which he obviously did, coming out of her vagina!) but woman came from Adam's rib. 

Well, just as Yahweh was an old deity with roots in former religions so was Eve. She appears to be moulded on the ancient Sumerian goddess Ninti, the so-called "Lady of the Rib" also called "The Lady Who Gives Life". That figures and the more I think about it, the more interesting that part of it gets ....

I think that religious people of today have got into a habit of not READING what The Bible says. They just browse those parts of it that confirm their beliefs, and they never, never, never put it into a historical context which actually is where it belongs: