Name: (Letting Go of God)
Uploaded: 2015-04-22T04:59:09.000Z
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Adverbs of manner

read that God actually comes to Noah afterwards

and he says, "Y'know the whole flood thing?

And he promises that he'll never do it again.

And that was another surprise: God has regrets.

Then we got to stories like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Right before they flee, Lot is visited by these two angels,

and they come and stay overnight at his house.

And this mob forms outside and they yell,

so we can have sex with them!" And Lot yells "No!"

Which I think is a basic rule of hospitality:

don't give up your guests to be raped by the angry mob outside.

He says, "Why don't you take my daughters

and rape and do what you will with them? They're virgins!"

Okay, so Lot is evil, right? How is it that

his wife getting turned into a pillar of salt?

Anyway, after Lot and his two traumatized daughters

they all go to a cave in the mountains highed out.

And during the night, Lot's two daughters

Do they do this in revenge of what their father did to them?

they're not that far from a city named Zoar.

So, I guess no men around for maybe a few miles?

And wait a minute, so Lot's two daughters

Okay, I knew the Bible had nutty stories,  I mean, I knew there were nutty stories

but I don't know, I guess I thought they'd be wedged in

amongst an ocean of inspiration and history.

This Old Testament God makes the grizzliest tests

of people's loyalty. Like when he asks Abraham

I caught my breath reading it. We were taught to admire it?

What kind of sadistic test of loyalty is that,

to ask someone to kill his or her own child?

"No! I will not kill my child, or any child,

even if it means eternal punishment in hell!"?

At the next Bible study class Father Tom reminded us,

"That Isaac represents what matters to Abraham most.

And that's what God asks us to give up for him."

such a deep ethical, loving instinct and act.

Should we be willing to give up our ethics for God?"

because your ethics, your ethics IS your love and faith in God."

In the Bible, they're actually all over the place.

For example, in the book of Judges, this guy named Jephtheh

tells God that if he can win this battle,

he will kill the first person who greets him

who runs up to him playing with tambourines and singing.

"No, don't kill your only child as a burnt offering to me!"

to be the first person to greet you when you came home?"

No, it appears the most important point of this story is

that Jephtheh allows his beautiful daughter

to mourn her virginity (I kept thinking, "Run! Run!")

before she comes back and he kills her...

the creepy sacrifice-your-own-offspring stories,

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(Letting Go of God)

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