Psalms Part III

     We are continuing with the questions I have for verses in the Bible. Again, and yes I have stated this many times before, if you cannot handle the idea that the Bible SHOULD be scrutinized and questioned DO NOT read these postings. If you cannot handle profanity-laced questions (such as mine are) DO NOT read any further. 

     In addition, if you think you have an answer to any one of these questions please give your answer in the comments section. If your answer is comprised of another Bible verse be sure to leave the passage location so that I may find it.


1. Psalms 10:1
     1 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Questions
     1. Is God/Yahweh standing far off because He is busy watching the melee He has caused unfold?

     2. Is God/Yahweh standing far off because He is the douche Who has caused all of whatever is going on and, while He DOES enjoy the fruits of His evil labors, He really does not want to be standing too close because someone just might figure out it is God/Yahweh screwing things up and not man?


2. Psalms 10:4
    4 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Questions
     1. So, if a person does not wish to think about or believe in the  God of the Bible that person is to be considered wicked, correct?

     2. If God is THE Creator, and if God created man with a mind that can (and often does) believe in many deities OTHER THAN God (or even believing in no deities at all), isn't it a wicked God Who, according to His voracious appetite for blood and pain and sorrow, says HE is THE God and there are no others and if you say or believe differently there will be hell to pay, quite literally? 


3. Psalms 10:9
     9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

Questions
     1. Right. Are you going to tell me that God is SO much better in His intentions when He Himself made the decision to send out a young lion to shred a prophet God was pissed at?

4. Psalms 10:11
     11 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

Questions
     1. And what, pray tell, does God say in HIS heart about man? That He has man right where He wants him? That He can do whatever He wants to man because man has no fucking clue and God has all of the power anyway?

5. Psalms 10:16
     16 Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.

Questions
     1. And WHY have so many nations perished from His land? Is it because of God's insatiable appetite for violence and blood? Is it because of God's insistence that EVERYONE worship Him, or else?


6. Psalms 10:18
     18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.

Questions
     1. Hasn't it always been God and not mortal man Who has terrorized, especially when you consider that according to the Book of Genesis it was GOD Who purposely put enmity within man?

     2. Be honest now in answering this question, alright? WHO says to kill this or that person/people because they believe or worship different, or love or work different, or eat or dress different?

     3. Man doesn't come anywhere close to being the oppressive terrorist that God is, does he?


7. Psalm 11:2
     2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Questions
     1. And WHY do the wicked do this? WHO is it Who is constantly turning and guiding and forcing the hand of the wicked?

     2. How many wicked men would there REALLY be if God did not purposely and continuously put people up to doing stupid, mean shit?


8. Psalm 11:7
     7 For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face. For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.

Questions
     1. Loves righteous deeds? Are you fucking high? Would you call Yahweh hijacking the freewill of Pharaoh in order to make the Egyptians appear as godless and stubborn so that God could murder them a righteous deed?

     2.  Would you call God allowing Lot's daughters to get Lot drunk so that they could rape him and get pregnant a righteous deed?

     3. Would you call God allowing King David to murder Uriah, allowing King David to steal Uriah's wife, and then God making the resulting baby DIE as punishment when the baby isn't the one who did anything wrong in the first fucking place a righteous deed?

     4. Where in the fuckey-doo did God get His definition of righteousness?


9. Psalm 12:1
     1 Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Questions
     1. Oh, please! Don't you think that Yahweh's version of the godly man being one who devotes complete, fear-laced attention to glorifying God...well, don't you find this to be screwy at best?


10. Psalm 12:6
     6 The words of Yahweh are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Questions
     1. Right. Is this flawlessness the reason why so many people from so many religions fight over the supposed true words of God?

     2. If the words of Yahweh are pure why in the blazing blue do such words need any type of refinement or purification?

     3. Purified seven times? Doesn't this imply that there was a previous state of imperfection? What does this say about God's supposedly flawless words?

     4. The words of Yahweh are pure bullshit, right? I mean, His own chosen people STILL don't have the mega land inheritance promised to them by their God, right (and the teeny little strip of dust they currently inhabit does not even come close to fulfilling the grand promise of land made in the Old Testament, so don't go there)?


11. Psalm 13:1
     1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Questions
     1. Don't you think the answer to this would depend on how badly a person has pissed God off?

     2. How can a perfect God have a memory problem and forget anything?

     3. How in the fuck can God hide when He is supposed to be omni-present?

     4. If God COULD hide wouldn't that imply He is NOT everywhere after all, thus making His purported characteristic of omni-presence null and void?

     5. Can God undo Himself? Wouldn't an action taken by God to hide Himself and thus revoke His own omni-presence be the very same as God undoing Himself?

     6. Why in the hell ask how long God will be locked in His divine state of forgetfulness if you are also going to ask if God will be forgetting forever? Do you see the lack of logic in this line of questioning in this verse?

12. Psalm 13:6

     6 I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me. For the Chief Musician. By David.

Questions
     1. Sure. I read what God did to your ancestors in the desert after supposedly fleeing Egypt. Are you sure you are not singing to Yahweh because you are batshit with fear over what God will do to you or your kids if you don't sing to Him?

13. Psalm 16:1-2

     1 Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.

     2 My soul, you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing."

Questions
     1. Considering WWII alone, wouldn't you be more accurate to say that there isn't refuge to be found in God?

     2. How can this verse so obtusely state that apart from God there is no good thing when the simple fact is that when people try to part from God He either fucks with them in seriously sadistic ways, or flat out kills them?

     3. Isn't it true that there ARE many good things outside of God, but that God finds novel ways to either fuck up those good things or revokes them in their entirety?

14. Psalm 16:9
     9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.

Questions
     1. You are out of your fucking mind. Since when has what God done to His people qualify as His people dwelling securely in or because of God, hummm?

15. Psalm 17:8
     8 Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Questions
     1. The apple of your eye? You mean like the supposed bad apple that Adam and Eve ate that appeared to be really good, but that really turned out to be rather evil?

16. Psalm 18:10
     10 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

Questions
     1. Okay, never mind the UFO undertones of this verse, but doesn't this verse sound like something from a Rainbow Bright cartoon?

17. Psalm 18:14
     14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

Questions
     1. You mean like how Zeus and Thor throw about bolts of lightning to defeat their enemies?

18. Psalm 18:16
     16 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

Questions
     1. Uh, no. You dumb twat, wasn't it your God Who brought the goddamn great waters in the first place to destroy damn near everyone and everything on the friggin' planet during Noah's time?

     2. Wouldn't a more accurate verse say that God held the head of man UNDER the water?

19. Psalm 18:20

     20 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

Questions
     1. No He fucking hasn't! Yahweh recompensed according to the level of anger He was feeling at the time He did whatever it was He did, right? It had nothing to do with righteousness, did it?

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Deuteronomy Part I: Just a Few Questions

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Rounding Out the Pentateuch

FINALLY we have reached the last book of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Holy Bible written by Moses. Well, traditionally these five books are held to have received the majority of their information from Moses. I suppose it is entirely likely that there are many who hold a slightly or even significantly different opinion as to who authored these first five books of the Holy Bible. That, however, is a different subject for a different posting. Here, we are continuing with going book by book in the Bible and listing particular verses and any questions I have in regards to these particular verses.

These questions are part of why I DO NOT believe in the Holy Bible as total truth, why I do not believe in a great deal of the assertions and ideals and practices presented in the Holy Bible and interpreted by religion in general, and why I think there is no such individual or ultimately divine person or being known as God.

I do not have answers to many of my questions, but make no mistake...I DO have some answers. But what I am doing here is NOT giving you my answers (with the exception to a very few cases) because what I really want is to hear YOUR answers. I do not wish for my own answers to mar your response. If you DO believe in the purported total truth of the Holy Bible and if you DO believe in God and if you DO have answers to any of these questions please make a response in the comment link at the end of the posting.

Some of the questions I have are so simple they sound absurdly ridiculous. Some of the questions seem to be quite common for believers and non-believers alike. Some of the questions require greater consideration than your general run-of-the-mill pondering. Some of the questions demand if not require the individual to render far more than the passing, intellectual glance.

If you wish to use verses as references please remember to note the passage location so that I may look it up.

Remember, I am NOT trying to turn you away from what you believe; besides, if you truly love and believe in God that is not even an issue for you to concern yourself with, correct? Does it not say in the Holy Bible that once you are in the Father's hands, you are always in the Father's hands? So, do not fret my many questions. I just want your answers.

In your response please be as clear and concise as possible because, for all I know you just may be able to provide me with an answer that is superior to my own answer, or lack thereof.

Tell me your answers. Tell me why you believe. Tell me why I should believe as you believe.

Give me...a reason...to believe.

And now, here are questions for the book of Deuteronomy.

1. Deuteronomy 1:8
8 See, I have placed the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and their descendants after them.

Questions

     1) Is this the Old Testament version of manifest destiny?

2. Deuteronomy 1:10
10 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

Questions
     1) Did the LORD forget how many stars were in the sky when He promised Abraham's and Isaac's and Jacob's descendants that they would be as numerous as the stars in the heavens?

     2) Do you think there is any truth whatsoever or even the slightest remote possibility of God's promise to multiply the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to the point where they are as numerous as the stars when you stop and consider that there are about ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLION stars in our own Milky Way galaxy, and in addition to that about 100 billion galaxies in the universe? 

     3) Isn't it just a TAD over-exaggerating for God/the LORD to utter such an absurd, grandiose promise, especially when He is supposed to know everything?

     4) Is God exaggerating here?

     5) Do you equate exaggeration with lying?

     6) Is God lying here?

3. Deuteronomy 1:12-13
12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

13 Choose wise and discerning and experienced men from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.'

Questions
     1) Did God/the LORD not think about things such as a system for addressing the many issues of the people of Israel or at least bring such issues up to Moses and Aaron before they left Egypt?

     2) If it was God/the LORD who brought the people out of Egypt and if it was God/the LORD who made many many promises to provide the people a great land flowing with milk and honey, did the people of Israel reasonably rely on an assumption that if God/the LORD was going to provide this great land He would also provide the necessary leadership and logistics?

     3) Why didn't God discuss this with the people, or at least with Moses and Aaron before they all left Egypt, thus making God's chosen people better prepared? 

4. Deuteronomy 1:16-17
16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

17 You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

Questions

     1) Sooo...when these verses discuss not being partial and judging justly, listening to ALL whether they are small or great, does this NOT apply to gays and lesbians?

     2) Wouldn't passing judgment upon an individual or group of individuals based on their sexual preferences qualify as being partial in judgment? 

5. Deuteronomy 1:21
21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.

Questions
     1) You know what this verse reminds me of when I read it? It reminds me of the folks traveling across the Atlantic in search of a land of tolerance and freedom...the New World, right? I mean, just as the land that God promised His people was already occupied, so the New World was already inhabited by the Native Americans, correct?

     2) Do you think the Puritans and Quakers and Pilgrims and Separatists and religious folk and every one else who went along with them, do you think they had this verse in mind when setting foot on what later became U.S. soil? 

     3) Considering their trials and tribulations on the other side of the Atlantic do you think these people saw the vast, rich land of North America and figured that God/the LORD/Divine Providence had placed the land before them, and all they had to do was to subdue the Native Americans and TAKE IT?

     4) Is inappropriate seizure of real property part of God's/the LORD's modus operandi?


6. Deuteronomy 1:30-31
30 The LORD your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

31 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

Questions
     1) The LORD went before His people and fought on their behalf? He fought on their behalf while they were in Egypt?

     2) Who led the people of Israel into Egypt in the first place?

     3) Who hardened Pharaoh's heart against the Israelites?

     4) Who, in exhibition of a stunning show of hatred, disrespect, contempt, and total disregard for human life MURDERED all of Egypt's firstborn, including innocent children/babies and down to the last animal? How the f**k does that qualify as fighting on someone's behalf?

     5) Since when and according to whom did God/the LORD carry anything or anyone with Him through the desert (well, He sure as shit carried along His out-of-control anger and equally unrestrained jealousy)?

     6) Did God categorize the persistent water shortages, persistent food shortages (until manna), persistent mind games played by God, and persistent meandering about the desert in circles for forty fucking years as carrying and caring for His chosen people? 


7. Deuteronomy 1:32-33
32 But for all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

33 who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.

Questions
     1) How in the hell did God think His people would react to the stupid shit He put them through on purpose?!

     2) Would you trust someone who promised you a La Jolla, California mansion of your choice, but who neglected to tell you that you would have to kill the residents of that mansion in order to obtain possession/title to the property?

     3) What good does it do to have a pillar of fire and a pillar of smoke to protect the people of Israel when the vast majority of their problems and dangers suffered were instigated by the very same God who was claiming to protect them?


8. Deuteronomy 1:34-36
34 Then the LORD heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and took an oath, saying,

35 Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers,

36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the LORD!

Questions

     1) Why the hell is God taking an oath when by His own nature He is supposed to be total truth? Wouldn't such an attribute as ultimate truth negate the need to make an oath or promise?

9. Deuteronomy 1:40
40 But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

Questions

     1) Isn't God making grand promises to the people of Israel and then looking for ways to revoke the promises either in part or in full total bullshit?

10. Deuteronomy 2:5-6
5 do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, even as little as a footstep because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

6 You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.

Questions

     1) Sooo...God is basically saying that if you pass through land that the LORD does not want for His people you must pay them (the people of the land) for whatever goods are needed, but if it is land God wants you to have then screw paying for anything and just take it all?

11. Deuteronomy 2:7
7 For the LORD your God has blessed you in everything you have done. He has watched your every step through this great wilderness. During these forty years, the LORD your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.

Questions

     1) The people lacked nothing? Nothing? What about going for days without water, and quite frequently at that? What about the situations where the people lacked of food? How the hell does that qualify as a generous sprinkling of blessings?

     2) Sooo...wandering in the freaking desert boonies for forty damn years is God watching out for and blessing His people?

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