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Replying to post 7 by onewithhim]
Well, somehow his goodness outweighed his ridiculousness.
Offering up one's daughters to be gang-raped...you describe that as the man being 'ridiculous'? Why that word, and not other words that come to mind?
Just imagine how high my eyebrow is raised at reading that.
Most of the people that Jehovah accepted as His close friends had some seriously flawed tendencies. Abraham and Jacob had several wives and/or concubines. That was not according to Jehovah's original purposes.
Strange then that Big J didn't say anything to Abe and Little J to knock it off with the multiple marriages and incest.
Don't you find it odd that he commands Abe not to go through with sacrificing Isaac (an act that he orders in the first place, by the way) and this shows somehow how against the practice of human sacrifice God is...but he makes not a peep to the same people about multiple marriages?
Abraham was a ninny, trying to make a king think that Sarah was his sister.
Wow...what a great example he is. Besides, don't you think it odd that the Egyptians are stopped from taking Sarah simply by being told she's Abe's sister? If they had been told she was his wife, would that have stopped them in their tracks?
Jehovah must've seen around their faults and looked at their good qualities, which often are not obvious to us. Jehovah looks at the goodness in each of us, rather than the no-good garbage stuff.
You're not exactly selling these people as the supposed paragons they're supposed to be, the example set that Hebrews wanted to match.
Your life is your own. Rise up and live it - Richard Rahl, Sword of Truth Book 6 "Faith of the Fallen"
I condemn all gods who dare demand my fealty, who won't look me in the face so's I know who it is I gotta fealty to. -- JoeyKnotHead
Some force seems to restrict me from buying into the apparent nonsense that others find so easy to buy into. Having no religious or supernatural beliefs of my own, I just call that force reason. -- Tired of the Nonsense