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[pasithea]

8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his
heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for
the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I
again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.



Soooo.... How does this fit into The Redemption? Did he have his fingers crossed or something?

I'm starting to wonder if anyone has ever actually read this stupid book. Seriously. This is what people have built their lives around? I can't get two sentences in this stupid book without finding a contradiction, flaw, fallacy, or something blatantly opposite what the conservative right gibbers on about. If you're that hard up for enlightenment, I have a seriously killer enchalada recipe that's far more coherent and meaningful.

PS: What happened to the Raven in 8:7?

Comments

[kyhwana.livejournal.com]

Don't forget 8:21, where god promises not to do it again!!
(So what happens in Revelation, again?)

[salia-chan.livejournal.com]

Raven got eaten by a land shark.

[sci.livejournal.com]

Do you happen to know if there's some resource out there for listing the differences between all the various editions of the bible? Kinda like a family tree or evolutionary map(*)? I mean, I'm aware there's lots of different editions out there used by lots of different sects and such, so if you do go and decide to actually read the book, which one do you go for?
I'd feel better if there were a website that'd state, "Edition 5, cuts out all of chapter 3", "Gideons Edition, sponsers Coke on page 392" or "Alters wording from edition 9 in 4:15, 4:18, 12:3... from.. to..".

(* hehehehe)

[zeeth_kyrah]

There's a specific class of books, called "concordances", which do just this: They display different versions against each other (often in columns), and let you decide what's different among them. My father happens to own one, and it's been rather useful for researching things.

But it helps if you know any Hebrew or Greek, because many include direct transcriptions from preserved older texts, as well as various translations.

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

This was a book written by comittie. Just immagine the crap that they decided did NOT belong in the bible. heh.

[ataramos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, all the good stuff!

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

So, you want us to worship your enchiladas?

I can dig it.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

The old testament seems to be all about the savory meatz. God can't get enough of the stuff and neither can most of the old kings.

[paka.livejournal.com]

Think of it as an even older version of Shakespeare. If you're going to hold this stuff near and dear - and I don't think you should - the conclusion is that what makes this amazing is that, despite all the weird Bronze Age nationalism, ethnocentrism, and bizarre contradictions, that there's anything actually valuable in there. Sort of like a lot of Shakespeare is intended to be bellowed at top volume to the guys in the expensive seats at the back of the theater and be titilating enough that the guys in the cheap seats don't rush the stage, and yet there's actually good stuff in there. Does that analogy make any sense?

And like Shakespeare there's just enough weird crap in there that if you have any agenda, you can find something to support it.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

I haven't found a single valuable lesson in all of Genesis thus far.

God punishes some people for stealing a neighbor's wife but not others, blesses some people and punishes others arbirarily. Makes someone sterile just for kicks then says he'll give him a son if he cuts his wang and then after he gets the son, God tells him to sacrifice the child to him and then because the guy (who was already stupid enough to cut his wang for this prick is also apparently stupid enough to kill is own baby, God says, 'PSYCHE! Just kidding! I love you man!' God also apparently likes to watch hot incest scenes, etc.

Maybe the full version of the stories have something more valuable than the Christian Cliff Notes version, known as the King James Version, but seriously. So far, I haven't found ONE thing that has any positive social value so far. (Though I'm only 3 chapters in, mind you)

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

God punishes some people for stealing a neighbor's wife but not others, blesses some people and punishes others arbirarily. Makes someone sterile just for kicks then says he'll give him a son if he cuts his wang and then after he gets the son, God tells him to sacrifice the child to him and then because the guy (who was already stupid enough to cut his wang for this prick is also apparently stupid enough to kill is own baby, God says, 'PSYCHE! Just kidding! I love you man!' God also apparently likes to watch hot incest scenes, etc.

And that isn't a valuable lesson?

(If you haven't figured it out, the lesson is: Stay the FUCK away from God. He's gone off the deep end!)

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Go on, draw the obvious conclusion... most of the population of Earth needs to believe in this stuff or stuff very much like it, so...?