Daily Spirit-guided thought for 06/13/08
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
May dear neighbors, friends, and brethren have a blessedly wonderful
2008th year since the birth of our LORD Jesus Christ as the
Messiah ...
... by being hungrier:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/f891e617d10bd689?
Hunger is wonderful ! ! !
It's how we know what GOD desires, which is all that is good.
Yes, hunger is our knowledge of good versus evil that Adam and Eve
paid for with their and our immortal lives.
"Blessed are you who hunger NOW...
... for you will be satisfied." -- LORD Jesus Christ (Luke 6:21)
Amen.
Here is a Spirit-guided exegesis of Luke 6:21 given in hopes of
promoting much greater understanding:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/cc2aa8f8a4d41360?
Be hungry... be healthy... be hungrier... be healthier...
Marana tha
Prayerfully in the awesome name of the Messiah, Jesus Christ,
Andrew <><
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http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/4128be9f9918d825?
J A
The story of Noah involves God mass murdering most of the humans on Earth,
and killing off almost all of the other animal life, also. The fact that the
story doesn't deal with microscopic forms of life, is an indication that
"God" didn't know about its existence.
Another story involving god's mass murder is the destruction of Sodom and
Gomorrah. The hero of this story is Lot, a nephew of Abraham.
Two male angels were sent to warn Lot to leave the city before its
destruction. Lot welcomed the Angels into his house, which was subsequently
surrounded by sinful townsmen who demanded that the Angels be turned over to
them so they could be sodomized.
Lot protected the Angels by offering his two virgin daughters to be used by
the crowd, instead of the two male angels. The male angels saved the day by
striking blind the marauding crowd that wanted to sodomize them.
Lot's household escapes along with their apparently God blessed animals, but
Lot's wife gets turned to salt by God, for committing the sin of looking
back at the destruction of the city. The story continues and gets even more
perverse.
(By the way, the region this event supposedly took place in is an earthquake
zone, and due to its geology, has been prone to developing thick evaporite
deposits (salt beds) which erode out to forming interesting looking vertical
"pillars".)
Lott and his two daughters wind up living in a cave, isolated from other
people. Lacking male attention, the girls decided to get their father drunk
so he would have sex with them, which he did, getting both of them pregnant.
Something similar to the Lott story shows up in Judges 19. Here, a girl
concubine is handed over to a mob instead of a male visitor, and she is gang
raped all night by the mob. After this ordeal she crawls to the man's door
who turned her over to the mob, and then she dies. Upon finding her there
the man cuts her body up into 12 pieces and sends her into all the coasts of
Israel.
Another example of God's penchant for weirdness and mass murder is the
killing of children through plague in Egypt when the Israelites were trying
to leave the Pharaoh's service.
The book of Numbers tells of how God incited Moses to attack the
Medinanites. The Israelite army killed all the men and destroyed the citys,
but they failed to kill the Medinanite women and children. This infuriated
Moses and he gave orders that all the boy children should be killed, and all
women killed unless they were virgins.
These biblical stories advocate genocide. They set precedent for it and put
God's authority behind it.
The book of Joshua all about genocide. The wiping out of populations so that
the Israelites could claim the land for themselves, under God's orders.
That's essentially the same thing as Hitler intended to do, and did
partially for a time, in his invasions into Eastern Europe and the Soviet
Union.
According to Leviticus 20, offenses meriting death: cursing your parents;
committing adultery; sex with your stepmother or your daughter-in-law;
homosexuality; marrying a woman and her daughter; bestiality; working on the
Sabbath.
According to the Bible, if a man finds his wife is not a virgin at marriage,
he can have her stoned to death.
The Bible is a strange book - it's not a guide for actual human history, or
ethics for humans.
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
J A
Thom Madura
Obviously - the writers of the bible created god in their image and
likeness.
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
> satan via a sockpuppet (corporeal demon) despairingly posted:
Not for the discerning, who are able to understand that the Author of
the Bible is the Holy Spirit, Who had the book written through the
lives and deaths of men, women, and children of this world.
Just as the Holy Spirit is not of this world and can not be understood
by those who are of this world, the Bible is not of this world and can
not be understood without the help of the Holy Spirit.
"I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of GOD unless he
is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the
Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at My
saying, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows wherever it pleases.
You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where
it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." -- LORD Jesus
Christ (John 3:5-8)
Amen.
Suggested additional reading from a post concerning the Holy Spirit as
written while inspired by the Holy Spirit:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/c66a235b804e5aa3?
May we, who are Christians (either Jews or gentiles), continue to pray
for your perishing soul, dear Thom:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/3cef85cf7bd411d0?