doing my best! i'm always like a few chapters to a day behind you... but i did finish Judges today, and can proly do ruth too since it's only like 4 chapters. am i still a day behind after that (since you wrote this yesterday?) i lose track now...
man Judges is bloody too! but not for the same reason as leviticus. instead of putting blood on their ears, they just pull out their swords and slice through everyone everywhere! it's like the holocaust or something... except the jews were the ones doing the killing! to be honest, i kind of have been walking around scared today, thinking that God is going to strike me dead with a lightning bolt at any moment!
the last seven books have strongly challenged my conception of God... do i really want a God who just kills people at random because he feels like it? and then again, do i really have a choice. If I believe the Bible is true, (and I do), He is that God whether I like it or not! i mean obviously i know God is loving and merciful and all that too... but i think we overemphasize that to the point of underemphasizing His holiness and our sinfulness. at least in light of some of the OT!
okay and what is with this verse: judges 14:4. samson sees a hot chick who's not an Israelite and his parents are like, um no that's not a good idea... but they didn't know that all along God was planning it because he "sought an occasion against the Philistines". Really? God wanted to wipe out the Philistines so badly, that he wanted Samson to disobey His own law to do it?? this baffles me...
also baffling is verse 20 of the same chapter, where samson's bride was given to his companion. usually we look at this verse and say, aw poor samson, they gave away his girl! however this time i looked at the verse and said Poor Girl! because if you look earlier in the chapter, samson's groomsmen were the ones who said they were going to burn the bride and her family with fire if she didn't find out the riddle. imagine marrying a guy who had threatened to kill you just a few days before!! (and then just a few verses later they kill her anyway). bloody!
then you have deja vu from sodom and gomorrah with that one dude's concubine and then, oh more blood, he cuts her up and sends her to the israelites and then they go fight one of their own tribes and so now they are killing each other, too! (btw whoever said that God is anti-war must never have read Joshua and Judges...)
doing my best! i'm always like a few chapters to a day behind you... but i did finish Judges today, and can proly do ruth too since it's only like 4 chapters. am i still a day behind after that (since you wrote this yesterday?) i lose track now...
ReplyDeleteman Judges is bloody too! but not for the same reason as leviticus. instead of putting blood on their ears, they just pull out their swords and slice through everyone everywhere! it's like the holocaust or something... except the jews were the ones doing the killing! to be honest, i kind of have been walking around scared today, thinking that God is going to strike me dead with a lightning bolt at any moment!
the last seven books have strongly challenged my conception of God... do i really want a God who just kills people at random because he feels like it? and then again, do i really have a choice. If I believe the Bible is true, (and I do), He is that God whether I like it or not! i mean obviously i know God is loving and merciful and all that too... but i think we overemphasize that to the point of underemphasizing His holiness and our sinfulness. at least in light of some of the OT!
okay and what is with this verse: judges 14:4. samson sees a hot chick who's not an Israelite and his parents are like, um no that's not a good idea... but they didn't know that all along God was planning it because he "sought an occasion against the Philistines". Really? God wanted to wipe out the Philistines so badly, that he wanted Samson to disobey His own law to do it?? this baffles me...
also baffling is verse 20 of the same chapter, where samson's bride was given to his companion. usually we look at this verse and say, aw poor samson, they gave away his girl! however this time i looked at the verse and said Poor Girl! because if you look earlier in the chapter, samson's groomsmen were the ones who said they were going to burn the bride and her family with fire if she didn't find out the riddle. imagine marrying a guy who had threatened to kill you just a few days before!! (and then just a few verses later they kill her anyway). bloody!
then you have deja vu from sodom and gomorrah with that one dude's concubine and then, oh more blood, he cuts her up and sends her to the israelites and then they go fight one of their own tribes and so now they are killing each other, too! (btw whoever said that God is anti-war must never have read Joshua and Judges...)
i think i'm looking forward to ruth... :-P