Bible Stories - Chapter 2

Mike Earl reads from his book, Bible Stories Your Parents Never Taught You.

Chapter 2 - 'The Destruction of Heshbon'

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• Bible
• stories
• genocide
• murder
• violence
• god
• atheism

[PinoX7]

hehe, the hells angels are gonna be protesting in my town 2morrow, Funny you mention it

[SpiritualAtheist]

Please don't let them know that I compared them to the ancient Israelites or they'll come looking for my ass! :-)

[ShespeaksUC]

hahaha no really i actually laughed out loud

love the stories these are awesome!

[barry0728]

Is that so? You sound pro-choice.

[Transitiving]

I'm glad people aren't reading this stuff looking for inspiration on how to live or looking at god as a role model for how to interact with others

[flamingtiger123456]

Because we have all rejected God, we deserve to die and be separated from God. To be separated from God is to be cut of from the "Tree of Life". Fundamentally, there is no difference between those who died at Heshnob nor those who die in their beds of old age. Who creates life, can take life away.

[flamingtiger123456]

"Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man". Perhaps this does not entirely account for how God can justify the mass murder of woman and children which we see. However, fundamentally we all deserve death. Our lives belong to God, whatever happens to us is because God has allowed it. God controls when we die and how we die. Is there really a difference between someone living to 80, or dying at the age of 16 by a blade?

[flamingtiger123456]

In verse Deuteronomy 2:25 God gives a reason for why Heshbon is so utterly destroyed, he wants to put the "terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven." From this, it is reasonable to conclude that God's intention was to show his power and authority through his people. The God of the Jews must be real if he gives them the power to destroy a nation so utterly. The Bible tells us that Fear of God encourages us to keep his commandments. In Ecclesiastes 12:13 it says:....

[SpiritualAtheist]

I don't think the public fully appreciates just how vast an ideological difference there is between those who believe in an actual burning hell and those who believe in some metaphorical version.

[SpiritualAtheist]

Yes, hell has evolved over the centuries. Although there are still a fair amount of people who believe hell is eternal and it is fire. At least that's what the polls suggest. It is frightening to think that there are parents, even today, who teach their children that god roasts sinners in an actual fire.