God the Holy Ghost rats on God the Father inspiring the Holy Bible writers to tell us like it is…
(Psalm 78:65) “THEN THE LORD AWOKE AS FROM SLEEP, AS A MAN WAKES FROM THE STUPOR OF WINE.”
Yeah… red eyes… vomiting all over… and cursing like Hell… ready to begin a day of killing innocent babies and making his chosen people starve to death or die by the sword! Is this the Judeo/Christian Bible God that we all need to believe and fear to be saved???
It turns my stomach over... How can the Christians believe in a crap like that? Obviously, they don't pay attention to what they read in the Bible!
2007-10-28 03:49:40 · 6 answers · asked by Opus 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The NASV reads...
(65) Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, Like a warrior overcome by wine.
No doubt to me ... God acts like a drunk no wonder he is so whimsical at killing right and left...
Hey, anything short of putting me to the torch is OK with me... this is a mighty question that I have for Christians... no different from the ranting of "God's people" in the Bible...
2007-10-28 04:16:43 · update #1
Verse (65) is giving us a mighty CLUE of God's character! He acts like a drunk going aroung killing innocent babies and anybody who doesn't believe in him... The answers that I am getting is that God is totally justified to do his Holy work like under the unfluence of liquor!
2007-10-28 04:26:15 · update #2
When I am told that God wakes up like a smashed person... I can fill in the gaps for you!!! I can tell you how a drunk person wakes up.. No preacher tell the whole truth about God to the laity!
I still don't see a good answer!
2007-10-28 16:53:39 · update #3
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of Almighty God. The enemies of Israel have known this.
2007-10-28 04:15:04 · answer #1 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DON'T TAKE VERSES OUT OF CONTEXT!
Read this in context:
Psalm 78:56-72 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
56 But they put God to the test
and rebelled against the Most High;
they did not keep his statutes.
57 Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless,
as unreliable as a faulty bow.
58 They angered him with their high places;
they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59 When God heard them, he was very angry;
he rejected Israel completely.
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the tent he had set up among men.
61 He sent the ark of his might into captivity,
his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62 He gave his people over to the sword;
he was very angry with his inheritance.
63 Fire consumed their young men,
and their maidens had no wedding songs;
64 their priests were put to the sword,
and their widows could not weep.
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
as a man wakes from the stupor of wine.
66 He beat back his enemies;
he put them to everlasting shame.
67 Then he rejected the tents of Joseph,
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loved.
69 He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth that he established forever.
70 He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;
71 from tending the sheep he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel his inheritance.
72 And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;
with skillful hands he led them.
First of all, God doesn't need to sleep, let alone get drunk!
About this:
"65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
as a man wakes from the stupor of wine"
this is a metaphor.
All throughout the OT, man felt that God, had forgoten them, or didn't hear them. That is NOT TRUE!
Man is limited, & cannot always know thw ways of God. What thery may think that God is "asleep", in reaity, God is the one waiting for MAN to take the action to return to HIM,before HE acts.
As we see, here, it was DAVID, acting on faith, that God used to lead Israel.
You CANNOT apply human weakness to God, becauseHe HAS NONE!
No, it's YOU that doesn't pay attention to what the Bible says, when YOU write stuff like this!
2007-10-28 11:02:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
GOD is the loving GOD only for those who do good,how do you expect GOD loving those who do evil deeds and after committing evil neither admit them nor repent for them,the nonrepentent evildoers are the rightful receipents of GOD'S punishment.
2007-10-28 10:59:37 · answer #3 · answered by arafat shaikh 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't say what he did when he woke up. You said that. Maybe he blessed a nation with great wealth, stopped a drought, or averted a disaster. God bless.
2007-10-28 11:01:19 · answer #4 · answered by SassyL 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
your Reading from one Verse .....go back read from the Beginning see God was Angry ...psalm 9-10
2007-10-28 11:01:46 · answer #5 · answered by babo1dm 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This isn't a question it's a rant. It's a violation.
2007-10-28 10:59:51 · answer #6 · answered by thefinalresult 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋