Random Chunks of Writing?

Psalms 23, 42, 51, 137

These pieces were different from the others.
Unlike the others in which there actually was a beginning, middle, and an end, these just seem to pop out of nowwhere.

Psalm 23 was one in which David praises God. He says,
"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want." (Psalms 23:1)
Obviously, this shows that David is very loyal to God, believes in him and knows that God will guide him through the right path.

However, the tone was different in a different part of a Psalm of David.
"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions." (Psalms 51:1) says David. He rather sound sadder and regretful. If you knew the story of David, this is the part in which David is begging to be forived for how David indirectly killed Uriah to get his wife, Bathsheba.

In Psalm 42, the person sort of questions God. Now, now, don't do that. Remember Job? Hahaha. Anyways, although he questions God, he still praises God and believes him in the end.

Here, after I had read some parts of Psalms, I noticed that these don't sound like songs. They sound rather more like random chunks of stories. Is it because it's a translation? Is it because there's no melody to it? Maybe both?

In Psalm 137, the person singing this 'song' seems to remember something from his past. Something about Zion. Ooh. Now I know where the 'Zion' from the 'Matrix' came from. It did come from the bible, right?

All of these parts that I have read show people generally praising God. I guess that's the whole point. However, it is somewhat harder to understand than most other stories due to the lack of background information.

Fairness

Second Samuel 2~18

To be very simple, Joab kills Abner, David mourns for him. Ish-bosheth is betrayed and killed. David becomes officially the king of Israel. They attack Jerusalem and win the castle. They bring the Ark of Covenant into the castle. He indirectly 'steals' the wife of a soldier (through the deth of the soldier in war), and is punished through the death of their first son. Absalom kills Amnon (both are David's sons). A few years later, Absalom is forgiven by David. Absalom becomes the king of Hebron.

Although these chapters had much more information than just this, if said simply, that's pretty much it.

I thought it was cool that all the situations in the story involved fair and even judgement. When Ish-bosheth's soldiers betrayed him, killed him, and took his head to David, David ordered to cut their arms and legs off. That's what they get for betraying their own king.

Mephibosheth, who was Jonathan's son, was given all the land that Saul previously had, for although his grandfather (Saul) was evil, his father was 'righteous', so David made a fair decision for him.

When David killed Uriah and married his wife, the child died, which was God's fair judgement towards the sin that Davd had commited.
"Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun." (Second Samuel 12:11) said Nathan to David. God sure is very fair (and is a very good promise-keeper), for all that God had told Nathan to tell David has or will come true. Too bad David couldn't live all his life as a righteous-loved-by-God guy.

Judging by all that has happened, Absalom will soon recieve fair judgement too. He killed his brother, and although David did forgive him, I don't think God will stay happy about it. Whatever.

Job is too Talkative

Job 1~10

Job is a wealthy guy who is very loyal to god. One day, Satan comes over to God and says that Job will surely curse God if he were to take away all his property. To test Job, all his animals, servants, house, and children were all killed. Yet, Job remained loyal to God. Then, Satan gave Job soars all over the body. His three friends (Bildad, Eliphaz, and Zophar) came to Job to mourn with him and all that stuff. They soon talk about how Job must have made a sin, or else God wouldn't have punished him. Blah blah blah.

First point to make. Satan has actually appeared for the first time (as far as I know)! Another thing to note was here:
"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them." (Job 1:6)
What do they mean by 'sons of God' here? Are they referring to angels? People? Jesus maybe? Logically, it wouldn't be people or Jesus, so it would be angels. But then, the word 'angel' did not appear even once in Genesis and Exodus.

I was amazed at Job's loyalty towards God. If they killed my sons, took my animals, and all those stuff Job had gone through, I would have lost all hope and would have started to beg to God or something like that. If not that, I would have had a 'oh-whatever-screw-God' kind of attitude. I'm just lucky it didn't happen to me.

Most of the text in Job were conversations between Job and his friends, so it was sort of boring. More boring than most other things I have read. But whatever. It's a famous story and one of those classic-must-be-read kind of thing.

But seriously. Stop talking so much. [sad face]

Is it All Coincidence?

Exodus 3~20

Moses sees a bush on fire, though not burning. There he talks with God abut how he was chosen to save his people in Egypt. He meets Aaron and goe to Egypt. They ask to take their people as well as their property and animals. The pharaoh doesn't listen, does he? They made the river into blood, summoned frogs, fleas, lice, and flies. Then he killed their animals, gave skin disease, sent storms, grasshoppers, and even blocked the sun. The pharaoh still didn't agree. So God kills all the non-Israelite peoples' oldest son, including that of the pharoah. Finally they are set free.

The people follow the cloud and the fire, until they get to the Red Sea, which they cannot cross. Moreover, the Egyptian army was coming towards them from behind. Now the super-famous story. Moses splits the water, creating a path.

Now hold it right there.
Remember how I said before that the Noah's Ark might be true? There was a similar story in Gilgamesh, and as it happens, in the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha (from Greek mythology) as well. What I'm trying to say that these things might have been history. So, the story of Moses splitting the sea might have been history too. There's actually a scientific theory that this might have been possible at the time. They might have just simply crossed the sea when it was low tide, and it came back on high tide.
If this is true, the following quote, "But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left." (Exodus 14:26), is either false or exaggerated. I'm just saying. Oh, by the way, that semicolon is part of the quote, so do not castrate me for the sake of all that is pretty and pretty.


Back to the story. They cross, and while the Egyptian army is still crossing the sea, the sea reunites, drowning them. God constantly saves them (despite their frequent disbelief), by providing them water, birds, bread, victory in fights, etc.

Moses then goes up the mountain to meet God, where he is to be given the Ten Commandments.


As said before, this could have been all coincidence. Egypt could have been going through a drought and an eclipse, you know? If all these stuff were true, it would be something big. However, it's not all that probable, right?

This is where you can like seriously see God's forgivingness. The people start whining, God does something to convince them and forgives them. Repeat action. I guess God really loves Moses. If continued to be read, they constantly go back to their default setting of doubting, resulting in punishment. Actually, due to God's punishments, Moses never even made it to the promised land. Too bad. He was too busy taking care of the people.

If you noticed, I keep making points that lead to that the stories in the Bible are not acts of God. Well, I'm just saying that because it's interesting, you know? I'm Christian, so I do believe that. I just somehow try to have it make sense when matched together with another piece, so that we can all be right and we all live happily ever after.


So yeah. Cool.
TEEHEE

Fight with God

Genesis 22~35

God tells Abraham to offer Isaac, his only son, as sacrifice. Just as he is about to kill his son on the top of the mountain, an angel orders him to stop, and says that since Abraham was loyal to God, he is blessed by him.

Many years later, Abraham orders a servant to find a wife for Isaac. He finds Rebekah. She marries Isaac, having fallen in love with other at first glance. Rebekah soon bears twins. Jacob and Esau were born. Esau became a hunter, and Jacob became a plain man. Esau was the older brother. Isaac loved Esau, but Rebekah lover Jacob. One day, Esau gave away his birthright for bread and pottage of lentiles. (Haha, what the fudge.) One day, after Isaac had gone blind, Isaac told Esau to bring him some food, and then he were to bless him. Not wanting this, Rebekah called Jacob, made food, gave it to him, and told him to take it to Isaac, so that he could be blessed instead. Jacob runs away to Haran. He stays there twenty years with two wives and twelve sons.

When he is going back, he finds out that Esau is coming this way. He prays to god and sends presents to him. That night, someone appears before Jacob. Now here, it gets interesting. It makes you say 'what the fudge'.

I was just reading, and just out of nowhere, starts a wrestling match:
"And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day." (Book of Genesis 32:24) Just like that. Wow. It's totally possible to wrestle all night, right? It gets weirder.

"Let me go, for the day breaketh." (Genesis 32:26) says God. I see no reason for you to stop wrestling. I mean, you wrestled all night, right?
"And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me." (Genesis 32:26) says Jacob, against what he said. Right.

God then asks Jacob's name, and then says,
"Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." (Genesis 32:28)

What the fudge? God deides to call him Israel just like that.

So Jacob meets with Esau, and he is not mad. They have a happy ending. He gets a son called Benjamin. Then, he goes to his father, Isaac, and all is forgiven. Isaac dies at age 180.



Let's start with Esau's birthright. What the? You don't just go give away your birthright for food. That's like giving away your virginity away for money. In other words, it's like being a prostitute. Esau was like a prostitute. Uh-huh. Right. Never mind.

The post is called 'Fight with God', because that part was particularly interesting, or let's just say, weird. You don't just wrestle all night just like that. That part was just all nonsense. There was a quote that I didn't put, which was:
"Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank." (Genesis 32:32)
Yeah, of course. Right. That's not a good reason though.

Anyways, I'm sorry if something that I said had offended anyone. I didn't mean to. I just wrote whatever that came to my mind.

Human Default Settings: Evil

Noah's sons soon multiplied.

♠ Increased genetic disorders
♠ Fluctuating facial asymmetry
♠ Lower birth rate
♠ Higher infant mortality
♠ Slower growth rate
♠ Smaller adult size
♠ Loss of immune system function

These are some of the results of inbreeding. Is this why we live less these days and the people in Genesis lives over a few hundred years?


Anyways, people soon think that they can be superior to God. They started building a city so high that they would prove the previous. God decides to make different languages so that they wouldn't be able to communicate. The city was never completed. The people all separated. It is told that the people who went towards the East started eating raw fish and got funny looking eyes. Just kidding.

This is taking to long. Let me speed up. Abram and Sarai go to Egypt, but are soon kicked out. They go to Canaan, where he separates with Lot. God says something about that he will have as many sons. Abram marries Hagar and gets a son: Ishmael.

God visits Abram. (Sarai is now Sarah. Abram is Abraham) He says that Sarai will soon have a son. Anyways, he says that he will destroy Sodom for the people their were sinful (if that's a word). If there's ten righteous people he will forgive all of Sodom. Yet, there were only four: Lot and his family. They run away from Soom with Lot and his family while Sodom burns behind them. Lot's wife becomes salt for not listening to the angels who told them to not look back at Sodom.

Sarah has her son as promised. He is called Isaac. Due to fights between Hagar and Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael are sent out. On the verge of death from lack of water, God helps Hagar and Ishmael. Ishmael soon marries an Egyptian woman and becomes the leaer of a tribe.


Chapters ten through twenty-one were interesting. First of all, it explained the spread of people and the formation of languages. It was weird that the story of Babel, which is famous to represent the evil of humans, was not more than a few verses.

It was kind of sad when Hagar, along with Ishmael, were sort of kicked out. It wasn't all that fair, since Ishmael was Abraham's first son. Well, as they say. Life ain't fair. But whatever, they get a happy ending.

Another interesting thing I foundout as that God usually didn't punish someone directly, or at least, not everyone. As seen from the following quote, "And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife." (Book of Genesis, Ch.12 - 17), he plagued the Pharoah's house. In Babel, the language was changed. Why didn't he just use his psychic powers and kill the bad people? The conclusion that I got was that although humans may be 'evil', God still loves them. In the case of Sodom, Lot was saved for being 'righteous', and in the flood before, Noah was saved.

You might be wondering why my title is 'Human Default Settings: Evil'. This is because no matter how good people are (like Noah), they somehow get evil and defy God. It's like as if their default option setting is to be naturally evil, and sooner of later, they go back to that setting. Just like Cain, the corrupt people before the flood, and the people from Sodom.

The First Man?

Down came the god from the sky
And in the short blink of an eye
Created the man, don't know why

My guess would be that he was high

The god went back flying away
The man left behind where he lay
He now was alive, hooray!
So he thanks the god and prays:

Thank you, oh thank you I say
Yet let me say this, if I may
For seeing me naked, you'll pay
Not trying to be mean, but you gay?

Being mad of the words that he said
He punished the man, who dropped dead.


I'm sorry. I was just desperate to write a poem.
I know, I know. I don't have a poetic sense.
Well, that would explain why that god created women.