Tao Bible - Jeremiah 4:6-7

Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
~ King James version ~

The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
The way of nature is unchanging.
~ from Verse 16 of the Tao Te Ching ~

God -- the being we are told that is the embodiment of love and mercy -- is ticked off and now declares he willfully will bring evil upon his chosen flock? He will become a destroyer and not the foundation of life?

As Lao Tzu points out, "the way of nature is unchanging." Tao doesn't get mad. Tao doesn't mete out punishment -- Tao cannot spread evil. Life (and death) plays out according to the immutable laws of nature.

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