Psalms Part V

Psalms Part V

     Here we go with Psalms Part V for the questions I have in regards to what is written in the Bible. If you have any answers please post them in the comments section after each posting. If you think there are questions that should have been asked please be sure to post those questions as well.

     Keep in mind that when it comes to things of a spiritual nature/religious nature it is of the utmost importance to question whatever it is you have decided to believe in, or what you might be considering believing in. Do not make the mistake of treating your belief as something cheap and useless. Take care of your belief and be very discriminating in choosing what you decide to believe in.

1. Psalm 33:13-14

     13 From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind;

     14 from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth—

Questions

     1. If the Lord/God exists EVERYWHERE why would He need to be looking down on mankind from above the earth? Why does this verse make it sound like there is some kind of distance involved when God/the Lord is supposed to be everywhere? Wouldn't the Lord/God being EVERYWHERE negate any kind of distance between God/the Lord and man?

     2. If God/the Lord is everywhere why and HOW does He have a dwelling place?

2. Psalm 33:16

     16 No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength.

Questions

     1. If no king is saved by the size of his army, and if no warrior escapes by his great strength...do these things also apply to God/the Lord? Why not? 

     2. Do the so-called enemies of God/the Lord know what this verse says and what it means?

     3. Is this verse, like so many others like it, simply a scare tactic to try to keep people from fighting against God/the Lord or thinking contrary to how He wants people to think?

3. Psalm 33:18

     18 But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,

Questions
     1. Why would the eyes of the Lord be on those who fear Him? Does the Lord have some kind of NEED for those who fear Him? Does the Lord feed off of the fear? 

     2. Does God/the Lord NEED fear in order to survive?

4. Psalm 34:11

     11 Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 

Questions
     1. If God/the Lord is so beautiful and wonderful and full of power...why teach fear?

     2. What does teaching fear accomplish?

     3. What kind of vibration is released by fear, and does God/the Lord need this vibration of fear to complete some kind of purpose or satisfy some kind of need?

5. Psalm 34:18

     18 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Questions
     1. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted? Why? Have you ever been around someone who is brokenhearted? They don't release a very good vibe, do they? Does God/the Lord need bad, unhappy vibes?

6. Psalm 35:10

     10 My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, Lord? You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.”

Questions
     1. If the Lord is so great why would there be the need to rescue the poor and those lacking in strength in the first place?

     2. If the Lord is so great and JUST why are the poor and the needy being robbed?

7. Psalm 35:28

     28 My tongue will proclaim your righteousness, your praises all day long.

Questions
     1. Proclaim righteousness all day long? Have you ever tried to talk for more than just a few hours at a time, I mean straight talking and talking? It is very hard, isn't it? Your voice gets all rough and cracked, doesn't it? Why would the Lord want you to do this all day long?

     2. Does the Lord/God NEED to be praised all day long? Why? Why would the all great and powerful need anything, much less anything all day long?

8. Psalm 36:8

     8 They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.

Questions
     1. Sooo, the Lord feeds folks from His river of delights? This sounds totally creepy, doesn't it? Kind of like Hansel and Gretel feeding on a house of delights, right? The Lord makes mighty promises and gives little trinkets of life and splendor here and there. Why does He do this?

9. Psalm 37:4

     4 Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Questions
     1. Oh, promises upon promises. Isn't this lovely? And people say that the Lord wants nothing from those who believe in Him. Right. What the Lord wants is the attention, the devotion...the DELIGHT of people. In fact, He wants it so badly He is willing to make gargantuan promises, isn't He? He will even promise to give you the desires of your heart, right? Not that far off from promising 72 virgins, right?

10. Psalm 40:2

     2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.

Questions
     1. This sounds like a plug for evolution, right? Lifted you out of a slimy pit? You mean like from a little bacterial cell that was undeveloped, and afterward He took those cells and changed them around a bit so you could develop legs and stand?

11. Psalm 40:3

     3 He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him.

Questions
     1. Notice that the song was PUT into the mouth of the individual in this verse, right? Does it say the person came up with the song on their own? Nope. It says it was PUT there. Does this mean that someone's mind can be totally screwed with by the Lord, hummm?

     2. Sooo, if the Lord/God needs fear in order to live, what better way to seed loads of fear than by developing ways to control the minds of people and spreading the news of that kind of power?

12. Psalm 42:2

     2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

Questions
     1. Is this part of the Lord's/God's mind control over man, to make man feel like he needs and absolutely thirsts for God/the Lord?

13. Psalm 46:10

     10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

Questions
     1. If God/the Lord is all-powerful and is everywhere at all times what the fuck kind of sense does it make for Him to say some stupid shit like "I will be exalted" when He is already supposed to be the ultimate, and therefore the MOST exalted?

14. Psalm 48:14

     14 For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.

Questions
     1. This is so stupid, right? How in the fuckey-doo can God be your God forever and ever is there is a goddamn end, hummm?

15. Psalm 49:13-14

     13 This is the fate of those who trust in themselves, and of their followers, who approve their sayings.

     14 They are like sheep and are destined to die; death will be their shepherd (but the upright will prevail over them in the morning). Their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.

Questions
     1. Oh look! More suspicious threats from the Lord/God, right? Why make such ridiculous threats? What does God have against the man who trusts himself? Is it because that would be taking food from the mouth of God/the Lord?


16. Psalm 50:3
     3 Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.

Questions
     1. First things first, right? How can God/the Lord 'come' when He is already supposed to be everywhere? Does not the word 'come' infer an absence? If God/the Lord is absent in ANY fashion then He is not Omni-Present, is He? That would revoke His ultimate status now, wouldn't it?


17. Psalm 50:4
     4 He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people:

Questions
     1. If God/the Lord is everywhere why would He need to summon anything or anyone?


18. Psalm 50:22
     22 Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

Questions
     1. Now why would God/the Lord threaten to not forget Him? Does He NEED to be remembered in order to exist?


19. Psalm 51:17
     17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.

Questions
     1. Is this God/the Lord in a nutshell? He WANTS you to suffer and to be broken and to be contrite and to be simply fucking miserable so He can feed on your sorrow and misery? 

     2. So if you give your broken and sorrowful and contrite self to God as a sacrifice He will not despise you? Is that fucked up or what?


20. Psalm 55:17
     17 Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice.

Questions
     1. If you believe in God/the Lord and He is so powerful and loving, why in the hell are you crying out in distress so freaking often?



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Psalms Part I: Just a Few Questions

If you thought the temperament of the Divine was going to improve with a more poetic approach you were sadly mistaken. So sorry to pop your bubble, but I suppose somebody had to. Take a peek at some of these, consider the questions, and then offer some answers.


1. Psalm 1:2
2 but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Questions
1. Have you read some of Jehovah's laws? Do you find them delightful? Do you really think you should meditate on these laws day and night? How about the law that says to stone your kids if they sass you? Or, better yet, how about the law where a rapist can marry his victim? Isn't that delightful?


2. Psalm 1:6
6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Questions
1. Sooo...how can God know the way of the righteous when He consistently punishes people for things they did not do?

2. But...isn't following God strikingly, suspiciously similar sounding to the way of the wicked since fuck-loads of people drop like flies anytime anyone listens to any of the hair-brained ideas Senor Yahweh stews up?


3. Psalm 2:1-4
1 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

3 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."

4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

Questions
1. Well, do you think that maybe the nations are in an uproar because of the bullshit God pulls for His own glorification? I mean, didn't God even fudge the language of the people at the Tower of Babel because He didn't like how they were working together?

2. You can't say the kings take a stand against the Lord ALWAYS of their own accord, right? Doesn't it say in Exodus that it was God/the Lord who hardened Pharaoh's heart against what the Lord wanted? Does that even sound anywhere near ethical?

3. And WHY does God laugh, hummm? Is it because of all the shitty things He gets people to do to each other? What kind of loving father laughs at fighting children?


4. Psalm 3:1
1 Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

Questions
1. Wouldn't this depend on how pissed off at you God is?


5. Psalm 3:3
3 But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Questions
1. Sure, a shield so long as you do exactly what God wants no matter what, right?


6. Psalm 4:5
5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.

Questions
1. Sacrifice of righteousness? How in the fuck can you righteously kill something that did nothing wrong in order to pay for something YOU did wrong?


7. Psalm 4:8
8 In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety. For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.

Questions
1. You mean safety like when a global mega-flood killed all people and animals and plants...with the exception of eight freaking people and a handful of animals on a floating asylum?


8. Psalm 5:4-5
4 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

5 The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

Questions
1. Really? Well then God must really hate Himself, right?


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Job Part IV: Just a Few Questions

This is the second to last posting for the questions for the Book of Job in the Holy Bible. I hope you have been considering the answers to the questions as you have been reading them. I also hope that you will take the time to type in some of your answers in the comments section at the end of each posting.

1. Job 9:17

17 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Questions

1. Shouldn't this verse tell you there is something very wrong with this God?

2. Job 10:8

8 "'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

Questions

1. This says a lot about God, doesn't it? A God Who creates with the specific intent to destroy? Now...why would an all-powerful being do that? To play games with the helpless? To bring Himself glory through the forced worship of those He creates? For WHAT?

3. Job 11:6-8

6 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

7 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

Questions

1. Isn't that just like religion to imply that there really isn't anything man can really know, seek, or do?

4. Job 11:11

11 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.

Questions

1. If God does indeed know falsehood and see iniquity without considering it then the first and last thing He must see in regard to such IS Himself, right?

5. Job 11:13

13 "If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

Questions

1. How can you set your heart right when God has taken it from your chest? How can you stretch out your hands when God has cut off your arms?

6. Job 12:23-25

23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

Questions

1. Aren't these verses the bitter truth about this God of the Bible? Why is this God of Love concerned with destroying, leading astray, and causing to become lost without hope and help?

7. Job 14:1

1 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Questions

1. Is this also a clue as to why God never speaks of His mother, why He harbors such great disdain for women?

8. Job 15:12

12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

Questions

1. Could it be because God is a diabolical bastard Who apparently lives to feed off the fear emitted by man?

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Turkey Broth for the Spirit: Just a Few Questions Part I: The Pentateuch

FINALLY here!

     I have finally put together all of Part I of my book series that questions the verses of the Bible. This first book covers solely the first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch, and is the total compilation of the posts in the corresponding blog. You will notice that in the book many of the verses read differently than they do in the posts since it was absolutely necessary for me to ONLY use the World English Bible translation.

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I Kings Part VI: Just a Few Questions

Just a Spoonful of Religion Helps the Mayhem Go Down

What better way can the absurdities of religion be explained than through the bloodshot, jaundiced eyes of the Bible, hummm? I mean, the Bible makes SO much sense of everything that goes on in the world every day, right? The Bible explains terrorists, wars, famines, plagues, judgments, mega floods, tsunamis, genocide, sin...all of the bad things in the world are defined by the Bible, made easier to understand by what the Bible says.

You no longer have to worry about why psychopathic religious zealots aim to kill the Infidel people of a country known as the Great Satan by flying loaded airliners into buildings. You no longer have to worry about why some spiritual nutcase convinces his followers to release a lethal toxin in a loaded subway terminal. You no longer have to worry about a fledgling economy, a polluted ocean, melting glaciers, sinkholes that tear the earth a mouth and swallow houses whole, or outbreaks of Ebola. The WHOLE THING is all a very special plan conceived and contrived by none other than God.

So, when things in life are haywire and crazy some people who are believers experience or are part of or witness bad crap happening, and when as a result of such they are posed with questions asking where this all-powerful loving God was when the poo-poo hit the fan, what do they say? It is ALL a plot of God. This is how many Christians/believers cope with mayhem, tragedy they cannot understand, right? They just grab a couple Bible verses and confidently announce whatever is happening is from God. Why is there war? God. Why is there abuse? God. Whatever mayhem God has created, no worries. The Bible says God will fix it. 

That's right. Apparently God is trying like hell to teach mankind the lessons needed in order to get into heaven upon death, and the best proof of this is the Bible. Look at the freaky-doo crap God/the LORD is responsible for and then consider His reasoning: I'm just trying to save man. 

So whenever Christians cannot explain away something that challenges their belief system or something that scares them they automatically claim they are being tested by God, that whatever craziness is going on it is all part of God's/the LORD's will to bring the Kingdom of God back to earth. Then in an effort to validate the claims of God's wacko plan some people crack open their Bible and happily begin to point out all the times in the Bible (especially Old Testament) where God/the LORD's  victories came by way of totally senseless messages from God in some form or other, right?

People don't want to think that much in the world is their fault and their best diversion is religion...

....It is all a plot by God/the LORD, right? If the world is falling apart, cracking in two, it really doesn't matter because the Bible says it is God's plan. As you read these verses and questions I want you to think about how some of those who believe in God behave when something screwy in their personal life or in the world happens, and they do not understand it. Instead of looking into themselves to consider what should be changed they say it is God's plan. 

And a surprising number of people are happy with that. I do not understand this. The ridiculousness of these verses is so bizarre you would never in a million years want Whoever wrote or inspired them to plan anything in your life, would you? I don't care what the mayhem may be or why the mayhem may be. Forget taking a spoonful of any of this craziness.

1. I Kings 14:1

1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people.

3 Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.”

4 Jeroboam’s wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

5 And the LORD said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.” When she came, she pretended to be another woman.

6 But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with unbearable news for you.

Questions
     1) Sooo...this woman knew this guy was a prophet, a person who possessed a gift/power to discern things many people would not, and decides to try to trick him into thinking she is some other woman? This woman and her husband thought this was a GOOD plan?

2. I Kings 14:8
8 I ripped the kingdom away from the family of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like my servant David, who obeyed my commands and followed me with all his heart and always did whatever I wanted.

9 but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and metal images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back,

Questions
     1) Why is God complaining that He has been cast behind someone's back? Doesn't He remember what He did to the prophet in the previous chapter when He purposely set Him up for failure? What did God do to the prophet He killed in that story, hummm? He LEFT the prophet's carcass cast upon the road like garbage, right? God has NO business scolding man, for man is not perfect (according to God) and thus is prone to mistake and ill behavior, BUT GOD is perfect (well, supposed to be perfect) and HE is the One casting the most valuable and precious things (like life and people) hither and thither as though He didn't give a damn, correct?

3. I Kings 14:10
10 I will bring disaster on your dynasty and will destroy every one of your male descendants, slave and free alike, anywhere in Israel. I will burn up your royal dynasty as one burns up trash until it is all gone.

11 Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat, for the LORD has spoken it.”’

12 Arise therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.

Questions
     1) Anyone for a nice warm cup of suffer the little children unto me?

     2) Oh look! Verse ten very clearly conveys God's willful treatment of human beings as trash, correct?

     3) Why is God punishing more than just the person who did the wrong? Isn't this unjust?

     4) The child will die when she re-enters the city? Sooo...this woman comes to this holy man to inquire of the holy man, right? This man can intercede on behalf of the people and ask God for help, and God can certainly heal the child, but what does He do?

     5) Why does God withhold healing from the child as punishment for the deeds of the child's father? Is that balanced justice?

4. I Kings 14:13
13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only member of your family who will have a proper burial, for this child is the only good thing that the LORD, the God of Israel, sees in the entire family of Jeroboam.

Questions
     1) Sooo...the child is actually a GOOD person/being BUT this apparently means crap to God Who is intent on making somebody die for what the child's father has done?

     2) You know, when Jesus dies on the cross He also had done nothing, correct?

     3) When God mentions acceptable sacrifice in the Bible it is always blemish-free, isn't it? Always, right? Whatever is sacrificed must be in a state of perfection and innocence, correct?

     4) How many times in the Bible are innocent children put to death, or threatened to be put to death? I mean, Abraham was told to sacrifice Isaac, Pharaoh supposedly drowned the Hebrew babies that were boys in the River Nile, King Herod ordered oodles of babies killed in an effort to kill the newborn King of the Jews, children and infants were regularly killed by the warring people of Israel in the Old Testament, and surely you have not forgotten any of the children or infants murdered by God during the Flood...seriously, are you surprised with what God does here to this child?

     5) God has the nerve to detest the people who pass their children to the flames of Molek, but throughout the Bible God sacrifices children and it is okay? How does this work? Another 'God works in mysterious ways' thing that mere mortals have trouble understanding?

     6) Sooo...if God knew all of this crap was going to happen before He even laid the foundations of the earth...err, actually He planned it all...can't it be argued that God is guilty of first degree murder, on a massive scale at that?

5. I Kings 14:21
21 Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

Questions
     1) Exactly what does the LORD/God mean by saying He specifically picked Jerusalem from all of Israel to hold His name? Does He mean AFTER the people of Israel took possession of the city of Jerusalem that the LORD/God choose it as the city to carry His name?

     2) The city of Jerusalem wasn't originally among the people of Israel, was it? Who originally founded the city of Jerusalem, the forefathers of Abraham OR the proto-Canaanites? What does the archeology say about it?

6. I Kings 14:26
26 He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house. He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made,

Questions
     1) The treasures of the house of the LORD/God belong to God/the LORD, correct? How does one take what belongs to God? Wouldn't taking something from God, even for the length of time of a second, wouldn't that taking from God indicate He CAN be beaten or defeated, that He isn't so goddamn powerful after all?

7. I Kings 15:3
3 And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

Questions
   1) Why does the Bible continue to assert that David was true to the LORD/God? Didn't David kill, steal, covet his neighbor's wife, commit adultery, lie, gave false witness...I mean the guy was a trainwreck when it came to following the Ten Commandments, right?

   2) Sooo...tell me again HOW David was true to the LORD, because so far you have shown nothing. I suppose you could say that David was true to the LORD in the sense that the LORD says everyone sins and BOY oh BOY did David sin, or what?

8. I Kings 15: 5
5 For David had done what was pleasing in the LORD's sight and had obeyed the LORD's commands throughout his life, except in the affair concerning Uriah the Hittite.

Questions
     1) Well, this is very interesting, isn't it? Sooo...the only thing that went wrong for David was the Bathsheba debacle? I don't think so. Remember when David got into trouble for taking the census, amongst other things?

9. I Kings 15:7
7 The rest of the events in Abijam's reign and everything he did are recorded in [The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.] There was constant war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

Questions
     1) Shouldn't this verse say something more along the lines of Where the LORD/God is, so is there also perpetual war?

    2) Explain to me HOW all of the war and misfortune and sorrow and disaster and destruction that God/the LORD so generously piles upon those who aimlessly follow Him fits into a grand plan to express divine love for man from God?

    3) I don't understand why this great, mega-powerful God chooses to show love through death and destruction, sadistic situations, and perverse punishments when He has the power and ability to show His love...through love, do you?

10. I Kings 15:12
12 He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Questions
     1) Sooo...did they keep the female prostitutes? Why only get rid of the males?

11. I Kings 15:14
14 Although the pagan shrines were not removed, Asa's heart remained completely faithful to the LORD throughout his life. 

Questions
     1) Sooo...the idols were NOT gone but he remained faithful? How does that work? Didn't the LORD/God say to Jacob in the book of Genesis to have his family remove all of the idols and purify themselves? Sooo...again, if the idols are not removed how is this guy completely faithful to the LORD?

     2) Isn't this verse like saying, Sure, I enjoy two packs of cigarettes a week, but I'm a dedicated non-smoker?

12. I Kings 15:26
26 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.

Questions
     1) Clearly this man did not make Israel sin, right? God needs to pay a little more attention to the stuff He says, correct? Didn't God say that man sins continually/is born into sin/cannot help but to sin? Sin IS a given with man, correct? Considering that, isn't it absolutely retarded for God or any of God's personalities to claim that any one person or group of people made anyone else to sin?

13. I Kings 16:1-2
1 And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

2 “Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,

3 So now I will destroy you and your family, just as I destroyed the descendants of Jeroboam son of Nebat.

Questions
     1) Dude, the LORD/God seriously needs to get a different line that He uses as an excuse to play murderous games with His chosen people, right? The "I Chose Him But Look How He Turned Out" game is so goddamn old it is no longer interesting, correct? Besides, we all know that in reality God knew all along that whoever botched up was going to botch up. Does God really think He can get away with pretending like He was an innocent bystander Who was hoping against hope that His choice of man would turn out to be a good one?


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