Recall from the Old Testament," the Babylonians had conquered and sacked Jerusalem and God does something astonishing, something He has never done before: He says sorry! He concedes that the Babylonian invasion—the overthrow of the Israelites He had planned for so long and with such evident enthusiasm--was actually a big mistake." [ From Blogging the Bible by David Plotz: The First, and Only, Divine Apology, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007 at http://www.slate.com/id/2157587/entry/2158732/
How can this be? A mistake commited by the all present, all knowing and supposedly infallable supreme being?
If "he knew you in the womb before ye were born" was his divine power on vacation when he punished the Isrealites with the Babylonian invasion without knowing that it a mistake in
advance of the action?
If your God is fallable how can your bible, as God's word, be held to be innerent?
2007-02-01 03:54:51 · 18 answers · asked by dollparty.geo 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Genesis 6:6 God regrets
Exodus 32:14 God repents
Exodus 32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people
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2007-02-01 04:00:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Arguing the fine points of falsehood in an overall false mythos might just be a waste of time...
It reminds me of kind of arguments that pervade religion all the time (and that result in so many different "sects" each with their own doctrinal differences, and each claiming they're right and all the others are wrong)...
Does it matter how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, when there are no such things as angels? No.
Given that there's no such thing as god, trying to show why "he" is inconsistent is kinda silly, isn't it?
Peace.
2007-02-01 04:00:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The blog site you are using refers to Jeremiah 42 and 43, which, when reading has absolutely no reference to God apologizing to anyone. Further investigating shows this "author" to be fabricating and antagonistic towards both scripture and God. A worthless site, since it is a source of mis-information. [Like the questions here]
2007-02-01 04:21:37 · answer #3 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow God talked to that guy? Amazing, simply amazing...
I'm surprised I have to tell you this, but if somebody (especially back then) said God told them to do something...well they were lying.
God doesn't talk to people or force anyone to do anything. He didn't write the Bible, men did, men are all flawed and bias. I doubt the Babylonian invasion was strategically planned and coordinated by God..pretty sure that was done by men too.
2007-02-01 04:00:43 · answer #4 · answered by James P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Another one of these questions.
People are fantastic at twisting the Bible and what it says, it's always been done, and always will be. God never makes a mistake, He just can't. I mean, to think that He could make a mistake when He knows the future, that's just illogical.
2007-02-01 04:03:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It isn't what you (or he says) in Jeremiah 42.
But hey, if you get what Bible knowledge of the Bible you have from a blog, I guess you deserve to be misinformed.
God only repented of the evil he was going to do to punish Israel temporarily. An apology, preposterous. And anyone who believes it, a fool.
2007-02-01 04:10:27 · answer #6 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's an error determined by the writer. Not an error on God's part.
The only thing that could look like an error was when God said he regretted making man and the flood came. It wasn't an apology either, man had hurt him.
2007-02-01 04:04:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In order to get an accurate account of God, you need to read the Word of God(Bible). I have never read that account happen in the Bible. May God Bless U.
2007-02-01 04:02:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you assume then you make an ...
Anyways, where's the sciptures so we can look it up ourselves. Gimme a breakage. Anyone can blog any nonsensical thing - that doesn't make it true. YARN.
2007-02-01 04:00:34 · answer #9 · answered by Light 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your source of information about God is "Blogging the Bible," not a verse from the Bible? Cannot offer a serious answer to such a silly question.
2007-02-01 03:58:22 · answer #10 · answered by cmw 6 · 6⤊ 4⤋