I got to be frank. The Book of Deuteronomy is giving me a big headache. It keeps repeating the same stuff over and over and over again. It seems like it was written for first graders or people with attention deficit disorder!
From a literal reading, it's difficult to understand why God so dislikes tribes and nations that are not Israel. In chapter after chapter and verse after verse, Moses (God's mouthpiece) tells the Israelites that God will help them defeat and destroy these evil and wicked people. And why are they deemed to be so evil and wicked? Because they serve other Gods!
But here's the problem. The Israelites don't seem to worship this God either!! A great deal of Moses' testimony throughout Deuteronomy is how again and again and again the tribe of Israel has turned its back on Yahweh.
Moses leads the people out of Egypt and they turn to other gods. Manna falls from heaven to feed them and, before you know it, they are worshiping other gods. Moses goes up on the mountain for a one-on-one with God and, while he's gone, the people worship other gods. This same refrain is consistent throughout their 40 year sojourn in the wilderness.
Here's the part I don't understand. People from foreign cultures aren't the chosen people and so they don't have a Moses to teach them about this particular God. The Israelites DO have a prophet in their midst and yet they can't seem to get with the program. Every time they receive a blessing or miracle, it's not long after that they return to their hedonistic ways.
What gives?
Why would a supreme being desire to punish people who don't know about him, while rewarding the people who DO know about him, yet they keep turning away? This seems sort of ass backwards to me.
It would be like, if you are a parent, you would go spank the kid's a block over for not following your house rules and these children have no idea who you are! At the same time, you would reward your own children -- who continuously defy your rules -- by taking all the neighbor kid's toys and giving this largess to your own children.
Who in their right mind would say that this made a lick of sense?
To see what other questions I've asked about the Christian Bible, go here.
From a literal reading, it's difficult to understand why God so dislikes tribes and nations that are not Israel. In chapter after chapter and verse after verse, Moses (God's mouthpiece) tells the Israelites that God will help them defeat and destroy these evil and wicked people. And why are they deemed to be so evil and wicked? Because they serve other Gods!
But here's the problem. The Israelites don't seem to worship this God either!! A great deal of Moses' testimony throughout Deuteronomy is how again and again and again the tribe of Israel has turned its back on Yahweh.
Moses leads the people out of Egypt and they turn to other gods. Manna falls from heaven to feed them and, before you know it, they are worshiping other gods. Moses goes up on the mountain for a one-on-one with God and, while he's gone, the people worship other gods. This same refrain is consistent throughout their 40 year sojourn in the wilderness.
Here's the part I don't understand. People from foreign cultures aren't the chosen people and so they don't have a Moses to teach them about this particular God. The Israelites DO have a prophet in their midst and yet they can't seem to get with the program. Every time they receive a blessing or miracle, it's not long after that they return to their hedonistic ways.
What gives?
Why would a supreme being desire to punish people who don't know about him, while rewarding the people who DO know about him, yet they keep turning away? This seems sort of ass backwards to me.
It would be like, if you are a parent, you would go spank the kid's a block over for not following your house rules and these children have no idea who you are! At the same time, you would reward your own children -- who continuously defy your rules -- by taking all the neighbor kid's toys and giving this largess to your own children.
Who in their right mind would say that this made a lick of sense?
To see what other questions I've asked about the Christian Bible, go here.
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