Prophecy

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JEFF
    Thank you for your reply. I am sorry that my response has not come
quickly enough for you. I have not checked my email since yesterday
afternoon and have not been able to respond until now. Regarding the
passage at hand, your assertion that God isn't compassionate and slow to
anger based on 2 Sam.6:6-7 assumes that you know the answers to the
following: First, who was supposed to carry the Ark of the Covenant?
Second, how were the Israelites supposed to treat the Ark? Third, how was
the Ark supposed to be transported? Fourth, who was transporting the Ark
in 2 Sam. 6:6-7? And finally, how were they transporting it? Since you
apparently know these answers, please inform us concerning this matter.
Thank you.

POOBAH
You really are a piece of work, Jeff. I have to confess I'm about to filter
your posts straight to the trash bin. That's because you know how
unreasonable your position is, and you are simply trying to avoid defending
what you believe, because you know your position to be indefensible. You may
be the most intellectually dishonest Christian we've seen here yet.

How does it possibly matter whether Uzzah was of the proper lineage to touch
the ark, what possible reason does it matter how the ark came to be in his
father's house or how long it was there. Ostensibly Uzzah & Ahio were trying
to take it back home where it belonged, and Uzzah was *trying* to do ole
Jehovah a favor, and prevent his precious ark from touching the ground. Note
2Sam6:7, which *immediately* follows Uzzah steadying the ark:

"And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there
for his error; and there he died by the ark of God. " (KJV with "Jehovah"
replacing "the LORD").

So at that instance (not before), Jehovah's anger was kindled, so that's not
slow to anger. It doesn't say, "Jehovah had really been getting upset at
Abinadab for keeping his ark, but he didn't want to say anything, so he just
kept quiet, but it really bugged him." In light of the direct correlation,
your questions are irrelevant, because the verses show a cause & effect,
"Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the
oxen shook it. And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah..." so all
of your questions are irrelevant. Uzzah touches the ark, Jehovah gets angry.
By any definition that's quick to anger, unless you want to pull some sort
of "a day is like a thousand years" nonsense.

So under those circumstances, why don't you explain how it is compassionate
to strike someone dead whose trying to help you out?

Let's say you open the door of your Ferrari, and the door is swinging toward
a pole, which would put an unspeakable ding in your priceless automobile.
Your youngest son grabs the car door to stop it from swinging into the pole.
In a fit of anger, you murder your child. Does the fact that you told your
son a hundred times that he wasn't to touch your precious car mitigate the
unspeakable brutality of your act? Does the fact that you told him that only
his older brother could touch your car in anyway justify your lashing out in
anger? If you then say, "Well my other children say I'm slow to anger" do
you think anyone would believe you? Do you think they should? How do you
think a jury would interpret your excuses?

And how pray tell is my example any different than Jehovah & his precious
ark?

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