NeoPagan says these things:
***Funny thing about the Old Testament--they never interviewed Pharoah or
gave us a chance to hear his side of the story.*** |
Whether or not you intended that as a joking comment, things like that DO interest me greatly. Some of God's actions in the Bible seem like a token gesture made to give Himself satisfaction that He has "proved" Himself to the people and they support Him for it, like the "dossier" on Iraq's Weapons Of Mass Destruction flaunted in our faces but with none of us allowed to see it.
Take God casting out Adam & Eve from His Garden Of Eden. Adam, upon God questioning him, blames Eve. God turns to Eve and asks her why she did so terrible a thing. She immediately blames the serpent. Does God now hear the serpent's side of the story? NO! He merely ends all questioning right there by saying: "Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;" and curses him.
Sounds a bit too ... contrived for my liking. Like an inside job.
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All the boys think she's a spy
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