Psalms Part VII

Psalms Part VII

     Finally we have the very last posting for the Book of Psalms!!! Enjoy!!!

1. Psalm 83:15-18

     15 so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.

     16 Cover their faces with shame, Lord, so that they will seek your name.

     17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.

     18 Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord— that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.

Questions

     1. Pursue and terrify and bring to shame so that the enemy will seek the name of the Lord? Why? Is that how the Lord/God really wants people to seek Him out?

     2. Where is the truth of spiritual freedom if someone is seeking the Lord/God out of shame and terror?

     3. Is seeking the Lord/God out of shame and terror truly seeking out God/the Lord from personal choice, or is it more of an arm-twisting technique employed by the Great Divine to push man towards choosing what God/the Lord wants for man?

     4. If God/the Lord loves everyone and wants everyone to come to Him and His mighty love, why in the hell would someone make a prayer or song to God/the Lord where they ask the Lord that those against them perish in disgrace?

     5. If God/the Lord is so freaking good to begin with and so ever-present and so obvious then why don't people automatically gravitate to Him? Wouldn't the ultimate mighty-ness of the power and love of God/the Lord supersede any kind of negative thinking of man that would stand in the way of man seeking out the ultimate in truth and love?

     6. If God/the Lord is all-powerful how is it that ANYTHING could blind a man in any way and keep him from seeking out God? Why would man even need to seek out God/the Lord in the first place if God/the Lord is already everywhere and thus by nature everywhere where man is?

2. Psalm 85:7

     7 Show us your unfailing love, Lord, and grant us your salvation.

Questions

     1. Okay, I have a problem with this verse, right? Show us your unfailing love? Do you see the problem here? If God's love is unfailing and if God is the ultimate in power in the universe then the unfailing love of God/the Lord would be apparent to man, correct? 

     2. There would not be the need to show man anything in regards to the Lord/God if the power of God/the Lord is above all and everything, right? Would not all and everything include the mind and the thinking and the actions of mere men? If such is the case, it does not matter what is in the heart of man or the mind of man since man cannot be greater than God/the Lord, right? 

     3. If the power of God/the Lord and His love and authority are so great then NOTHING conceived of by man can block it or stop it or remove it or hide it...because if such happens then that means the power of God/the Lord is being blocked and He isn't so awfully powerful after all, right?

3. Psalm 85:12

     12 The Lord will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest.

Questions

     1. If the Lord/God is everywhere at all times (ever-present, Omni-Present) and if what is 'good' is the inherent nature of the Lord/God, how can the Lord/God give what is good when what is good is already there? You can't give what is already present, right?

4. Psalm 86:11

     11 Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.

Questions
     1. Why would you want the people that follow you to fear you? Isn't that kind of like living in a Communist nation? Seriously. People following the Lord are constantly living in fear of every friggin' thing proceeding from God. WTF, right? 

     2. Don't true leaders lead/govern from compassion and love? 

     3. Do you think that fear is part of true leadership?

5. Psalm 86:17

     17 Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

Questions
     1. First of all, why do you want to put your enemies to shame? Don't you want them to join you and become part of you? Would you want your enemies to shame you?

     2. Wouldn't you want to give your enemies guidance to what is good and right and just? Would you simply try to guide them and not shame them? 

     3. There is a difference in getting people to follow by shaming them and filling them with fear as opposed to allowing them to follow out of devotion and love. Shame and fear imply that brainwashing is being utilized. Does it make sense to get people to follow by shaming them?

6. Psalm 89:3-4

     3 You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant,

     4 ‘I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm through all generations.’ ”

Questions
     1. Why is David a servant if he is a king? The Lord's servant? Does not a king serve his people and the king has his own servants?

     2. If David's line was so ever-loving firm why are there people who consistently question this supposedly firm line?

     3. Sooo, if the Lord/God is King...is He not then ALSO a servant to US? Wouldn't the Lord/God then be worshiping His own people?

7. Psalm 89:6-7

     6 For who in the skies above can compare with the Lord? Who is like the Lord among the heavenly beings?

     7 In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him.

Questions
     1. What do these verses imply? Are there other beings in the sky? Sooo, do you mean WHO as in there ARE NO other heavenly beings?

     2. Who is like the Lord/God among the heavenly beings? Sooo, there ARE other heavenly beings? Aliens?

     3. Sooo, if there ARE NO OTHER heavenly beings WHY is there a council of the holy ones?

     4. WHO makes up the council of the holy ones and WHO put it together?

     5. If the Lord/God is the greatest ever WHY is there this council of the holy ones? WHY would the Lord/God need to be part of any kind of council?

8. Psalm 91:9-12

     9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling,

     10 no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.

     11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;

     12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

Questions
     1. If the Lord/God is the greatest EVER and is everywhere why in the freaky-doo is He having to send angels to take care of ANYONE if He alone does EVERYTHING?

9. Psalm 95:10-11

     10 For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.’

     11 So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ 

Questions
     1. God/the Lord was angry for forty goddamn years STRAIGHT?

     2. When did the Lord/God stop being angry, and when did He get angry again?

     3. Has the Lord/God ever heard of anger management and Zoloft or Paxil?

10. Psalm 100:3

     3 Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Questions
     1. Why can't we be the people of the Lord's pasture and know that we are HERS? Or maybe God is androgynous? 

     2. Do you know what the sheep in a flock are for? Don't you know sheep are always used in some way? Whether it is for wool or for milk or for meat the sheep are always used, right? USED. Sooo, what does God/the Lord use the people of His flock of sheep for?

     3. Why does the Lord/God have to have so much fear in order to fellowship with His sheep? If the Lord's people function like sheep they have no thought, right?

11. Psalm 100:4

     4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

Questions
     1. Give Him thanks for fucking WHAT? War? Pestilence? Violence? Jacked-up laws?

     2. Why does a God who is everywhere need gates? Why does He need courts?

     3. If God is everywhere then people can worship Him anywhere, right? Is not everything supposed to be in, of, for and to God? Wouldn't everything be 'joined' in Him in that sense and then negate the need for courts or anything of the like?

12. Psalm 103:17

     17 But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children—

Questions
     1. Sooo, would you want your children and their children to fear you so you can show them love and affection?

     2. If you have one everlasting why the fuck would you need another?

     3. Sooo, did the people of God who died during the Holocaust NOT fear God enough and so He let them be murdered? SOMEBODY fucked up on that one, didn't He?

13. Psalm 103:19

     19 The Lord has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.

Questions
     1. If the Lord is everywhere why does He need a throne?

     2. If the Lord rules over all and over everything and everyone, why am I sitting here typing on how much He sucks as a ruler?

14. Psalm 103:20-21

     20 Praise the Lord, you his angels, you mighty ones who do his bidding, who obey his word.

     21 Praise the Lord, all his heavenly hosts, you his servants who do his will.

Questions
     1. Thank GOD I am a fucking woman because all the angels are male, right? Just kidding. I have a hard time being serious with stupid shit.

     2. If God is all-present and all-powerful why in the hell does He need anyone or anything, whether or not it is angels or heavenly beings, to do His bidding?

15. Psalm 111:4-5

     4 He has caused his wonders to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and compassionate.

     5 He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.

Questions
     1. I do not fear God and yet I still eat. Sooo, how does this fearing God in order to eat work?

     2. The Lord is gracious and compassionate BUT you need to fear Him in order to eat?

     3. Which of His covenants has God decided to remember here?

16. Psalm 116:15

     15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants.

Questions
     1. WTF? What are the servants of the Lord gaining when they die? Everlasting life? This totally sounds like something that the terrorists would cling to in order to justify their dastardly deeds, right?

     2. Sooo, if I am not a faithful servant of God I have a pretty good chance of living, right?

17. Psalm 141:5

     5 Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness; let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.

Questions
     1. A righteous man would not strike another, would he?

18. Psalm 150:6

     6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

Questions
     1. Sooo, do the demons and the aliens and the Nephilim praise the Lord?


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Job Part V: Just a Few Questions

This is the final posting for the questions for the Book of Job in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. Next, of course, will be the questions for the Book of Psalms. Hopefully you have taken the time to go back to the beginning, to Genesis, to read and consider all of these questions from the very beginning. I hope you will also post answers, and if you do I appreciate your response.


1. Job 19:25
25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

Questions
1. Of course Job will say this. Why? Is it because as fucked up as Job's life has become God can fuck it up even MORE, in ways that Job knows he could never imagine nor comprehend?


2. Job 21:7
7 "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Questions
1. Well, isn't part of the problem the fact that the wicked are often defined as those who do not believe in God? Aren't there plenty of good people who do not believe in God? Conversely, aren't there plenty of BAD people who believe in God?


3. Job 28:12
12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

Questions
1. But...wisdom isn't straight knowledge, is it? Doesn't wisdom include knowledge combined with courage, compassion, consideration, comfort, and care? Does God know this? Shouldn't God know this?


4. Job 28:28
28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"

Questions
1. If understanding is true wisdom doesn't that then make fear fairly useless?

2. How is departing from evil true understanding when there are plenty of folks who understand much...yet still choose evil?

3. If fearing the Lord is true wisdom...uhmmm...isn't the Lord/God then using a loathsome tool (fear) to gain glory, a following, devotion, and all of that divine poppycock?


5. Job 37:23-24
23 We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

24 Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who are wise of heart."

Questions
1. This makes no sense, does it? If God is SO excellent with His might and power (which can be seen everywhere) then people CAN find Him out, correct?

2. Where is God's justice and righteousness? Where was it for the Children of Israel as they meandered for forty fucking years in a goddamn desert? How about for the people who died on that most horrific September 11th? The people who did those terrible deeds that day worship the same damn God (and consequently thought that this God was showing justice and righteousness)...SO...where is the justice and righteousness?

3. If men revere ANYONE who has no regard for those who are wise of heart would they be doing so because they fear for their lives?

4. Would anyone in their right mind revere another who shows no regard for the wise of heart?


6. Job 38:4-6
4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

5 Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

6 Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

Questions
1. Isn't this one of the most favored set of verses quoted by believers? Do you know how everything came to be? Do you understand the whys of everything? No? Then how can you say there is no God?

2. Sooo...does the lack of understanding as to the hows and whys of anything in nature/the universe/ourselves prove this maniacal God that believers swear is real?

3. Does man's lack of ability to do anything prove God or the supposed truth of the Bible?


7. Job 42:7-8
7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

8 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."

Questions
1. Sooo...God is basically saying that these guys made Him angry and so they all need to go and kill something? What the fuck?


8. Job 42:10-17
10 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

11 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

14 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.

15 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.

17 So Job died, being old and full of days. BOOK I

Questions
1. Sooo...is God bribing Job with all of these things? Are all of these new things supposed to make the taking of all of his previous belongings/family okay and excusable?

2. Does this make the deaths of Job's previous children easier to bear? Does it or is it supposed to wash God's hands of guilt?

3. Sooo...what about everyone who got fucked over in this little experiment to test Job's faith and trust in God? What do they get?

4. God being all-powerful and all-knowing, He didn't have to prove Job's devotion/allegiance in this manner, did He?

5. Does God use this story of Job in the Old Testament to build the bad reputation of Satan?

6. This ALL falls on God, doesn't it? Isn't HE the one Who is supposed to be in ultimate, total control of EVERYTHING?


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II Kings Part I: Just a Few Questions

We have made it to II Kings!!

We have made it all the way to II Kings! Hasn't it been a real ordeal so far? Yes, it has been. Especially for me, right? I mean, I am actually reading through all of this stuff to find interesting verses and made comments and ask questions. I tell you...sometimes I just have to push the book, the Bible that is, AWAY and go for a walk or take a couple of days off. It is some of the screwiest stuff ever. EVER. And I read a LOT of Stephen King...sooo...yeah. Anyways, let's get this show on the road.

1. II Kings 1:9-13

9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’”

10 But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

11 Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, “O man of God, this is the king’s order, ‘Come down quickly!’”

12 But Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.

13 Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, “O man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in your sight.

Questions

     1) Sooo...the lives of the previously roasted soldiers were not precious?

     2) What was the point of killing the men?

     3) Is this God's sadistic humor?

2. II Kings 2:11

11 And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Questions

     1) Is this a freaking UFO story?

3. II Kings 2:15

15 Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him opposite them, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.

Questions

     1) Is this why so many people listen to so many others who claim to be prophets...the power and the mystery?

4. II Kings 2:23-24

23 He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”

24 And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

Questions

     1) Really? Are you fucking serious? A man of God couldn't take the jibes of little kids, huh?

     2) More of God's suffering the little children unto Him?

     3) Isn't this an abuse of God's power right along with a good sprinkling of intolerance, unjustifiable judgment and punishment?

     4) Cursing in the name of Jehovah? Is this like the inverse of blasphemy?

5. II Kings 3:26-27

26 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him 700 swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom, but they could not.

27 Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.

Questions

     1) Oh, look! No different from the pagans and the heathens, are they? Wait...they ARE the pagans and heathens, right? But...didn't GOD try to get people to sacrifice their kids? What the hell is going on?

6. II Kings 4:33-35

33 So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the LORD.

34 Then he went up and lay on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm.

35 Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

Questions

     1) Well now, HERE is a recycled story, right?

     2) Doesn't this STILL sound all wrong?

7. II Kings 6:4-7

4 So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

5 But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.”

6 Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float.

7 And he said, “Take it up.” So he reached out his hand and took it.

Questions

     1) How deep was the water?

     2) What purpose was served by this story?

     3) Wow...an AX floats. So fucking what, right? I mean, aren't the people freaking starving? Float a freaking banquet to the surface, right?

8. II Kings 6:28-30

28 And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

29 So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”

30 When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body—

Questions

     1) Holy shit! Yikes. Doesn't this sink the idea of suffer the little children to an all new low?

9. II Kings 9:34-36

34 Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”

35 But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

36 When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, ‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel,

Questions

     1) Oh bullshit! All that was left were the hands, feet, and skull? What did the dogs do? Walk away with the fucking pelvis? Femurs? REALLY? Were these dogs Great Danes? Mastiffs?

10. II Kings 9:37

37 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”

Questions

     1) Corpse desecration?

     2) Does God approve of corpse desecration so long as it is done to the enemy?

11. II Kings 13:21

21 And as a man was being buried, behold, a marauding band was seen and the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha, and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.

Questions

     1) Sooo...the dead guy doesn't have the power to keep himself alive, but his bones have the power to make another dead man come to life?

12. II Kings 14:6

6 But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded, “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. But each one shall die for his own sin.”

Questions

     1) Where in the Old Testament does it REALLY work out like this?

     2) Maybe a better question would be how many times in the Old Testament do children end up paying for the sins of their fathers?

     3) This is a crock of crap, ISN'T it?

13. II Kings 17:9

9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the LORD their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.

Questions

     1) Secretly? Secretly? If these people knew anything about their bipolar God SURELY they knew you can't fucking HIDE anything from Him, right?

14. II Kings 17:25

25 And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the LORD. Therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

Questions

     1) Tell me, and be completely honest...is this or is this not seriously, SERIOUSLY disturbing?

     2) Is this your God that you worship? Do you approve of this or do you shrink away from that question by claiming you have no right to approve or disapprove of anything that your God does?

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