RE: Fear
Walter Nusbaum (nusbaum@iglobal.net)
Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:10:00 -0500
At 12:49 AM 4/18/97 -0500, you wrote:
>RHONDA
>My greatest fear is that Christians will have a sudden revelation that all
>non-Christians are Amelakites and start a murderous rampage...just their
>Jewish descendents supposedly did in the Old Testament.
>
>WALT JR
>
>Rhonda,
>
>You don't have to worry about christians doing that...God will do it in time.
>
>TILL
>Oh, so you believe that God will "in time" begin a "murderous rampage"?
>Well, why not? He's long overdue. He hasn't gone on a rampage since the OT
>was completed.
>
>
>Farrell Till
>Skepticism, Inc.
>jftill@midwest.net
>
(Walt Sr. 4/18)
Farrell,
I will leave it to you to supply book, chapter, and verse, but I seem to
remember that sometime around the Babylonian captivity, Jewish writers began
to ascribe the woes of
the Jews to the Jews themselves, because they couldn't otherwise explain
their god's lack of positive response to their continuing bad fortunes.
Opposing armies were declared to be an instrument of god's will to punish
his chosen people and he "sent" assistance in the form of historical
figures, such as Cyrus the Great(Who is on written record as having
conquered in the name of Ahura Mazda!!). Now, if it is true that yahweh
used earthly forces to "reprimand" his people for having fractured his
covenant, why can't it be said that he used Nazi Germany in this century as
simply another earthly means of punishment? There would seem to be biblical
precedent for such a claim. In other words, the holocaust was god's will!!?
Best wishes,
Walt Sr. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid
to laugh.
Voltaire