I don't know why but what God did in Exodus suddenly reminded me of a women beater.
I know I am going to get all sorts of slack for this blog from all the pious and very religious people but it just seems to me that God resembles a wife beater in Exodus. I will recount and explain my statement. It starts off with the story of Moses
The story begins with Moses being born to a Hebrew women but was placed in a basket and pushed down river for fear that he would be killed. In those times, pharaoh had a law that all male Hebrew children would be put to death. Moses was rescued by a member of Pharaoh’s family and was adopted. He grew up as an Egyptian until he killed an Egyptian who was punishing a Hebrew. Moses ran away and started a new life for himself in the span of 40 years. Then God appeared into Moses’ life.
God convinces Moses to return Egypt to stop the oppression of the Hebrews. Moses returns and tries to convince Pharaoh to “Let his people go.” Pharaoh refuses so Moses starts a plague with the help of God onto the Egyptians. Pharaoh begins to melt his heart and God hardens it. God repeats this act repeatedly. God punishes the people repeatedly to assert his power and to have his people believe in him. He acts a nurturer to the Hebrews but in that it blinks of an eye, he is destroyer to the Egyptians.
If the Hebrew anger God they will feel God’s wrath and then his mercy. This scenario strikingly resembles a battered wife or husband situation. If the wife or husband does wrong, she or he is punished and then nurtured and forgiven until she or he does another wrong. The cycle is repeated.
God strikes down those who does wrong and then says let me help you but as soon as the person does wrong again he strikes them down.
"I told you to listen to me!"
"I am sorry...forgive me!"
"I love you, your forgiven."
Next Night
"I told you to listen to me!"
"I am sorry...forgive me!"
"I love you, your forgiven."
Maybe things are not exactly like this or there are kids involved but the resemblance to me is just so crazy. So i thought I would blog it. Enjoy.
**Since this is merely my opinion and I am entitled to one. Comments on how stupid or dumb or ignorant will just be ignored. Debate the topic not the person.**
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Interesting idea.
I like that you could read the Bible without just following along with the text; to actually read something, question it & relate it to a subject that may be negative. People tend to be biased towards the Bible ... but that is their choice. I don't think its wrong to question the Bible but that's just me!
Well, God does use the metaphor of marriage to describe our relationship with him, but he is not a wife beater and we are a bunch of prostitutes. Thats right, I'm a prostitute, you're a prostitute. we're all a bunch of prostitutes. I'm sure you didn't think you'd read that today :) Any how the best example of this is the prophet Hosea. God tells him to marry a prostitute named Gomer. I'm not sure which was more ridiculous, that he was to marry a prostitute or a woman named Gomer but we digress. God tells Hosea that this woman will not be pure and will cheat on him. The reason God does this is that Hosea's marriage is a metaphor for what Israel was doing. They belong to their creator but they whored themselves out to other Gods. Today we prostitutes in the same way. I know it is easy for me to not make God the center of my life, and whore myself out to other things. I know when this happens there will be consequences. This doesn't mean God will create the consequences, it means that things naturally happen. If I don't work as hard as I should on a project, I get a bad grade. If I lie I hurt the people around me.
So God is not a wife beater, I'm just a whore.
Um yea. Your comment threw me for a loop. That is some funky logic you got there. I guess using your logic i am a whore to my ambitions and desires. I was meerely saysing that God resembles a wife beater not is one.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth!~JFK