Ooops! My bad. Thanx for the correction, friend.
GC/DEA_AGENT
No problem. I've dealt with Deicide's silly claims before, regarding the alleged non-existence of Jesus Christ. It's a view that few hold, given the huge body of evidence we have today. Basically, any arguments about Christ center more around His divinity, not his mere existence.
In reality it was written by man. In fact, correct me if I'm wrong, weren't those gospels written many years after Jesus's death? Some experts thinking it was as much as 50 years after his death. 50 years of the beginning of a religion spread by word of mouth? Ever play that game in school where everyone stands in a line a message is sent though it?
The "rest of the bible" is used for power, used for church. In the bible as with many other religious works from other religions lies nuggets of wisdom from God. The bible has some great ones: Do on to others...... Very little to go wrong with living your life that way.
The rest of the raging mass murdering jealous insecure stuff is all man. Like beating your kid with a rod. Or a sending a bear to kill children for teasing a prophet. Or sending your daughters outside to get raped by an angry horny mob. I mean come on.
"Come on", indeed. The "beating your kid with a rod" is little more than the standard butt-whipping that most folks got as kids, when they got too far out of line.
As for the rest, there were TWO bears and (as explained multiple times before), Elisha was not confronted by a bunch of gummy-worm eating, Caprisun-sipping kindegarteners. Of course, when this was last brought up, you were still left to explain why a bunch of "little kids" would leave the confines of a city, go to a desert road, and confront a prophet, allegedly just to pick on his being bald.
Add to that, how many of these folks were there, if only 42 got jacked up by them grizzlies?
The daughters-angry-mob stuff.......that's a mere report of what happened in a scenario where a cowardly guy does that to save his own hide.
Basically, as stated before, you've simply cut-and-pasted from some Bible skeptic website(s), in which the authors are basically CLUELESS as to the context of the scenarios, which the skeptics decry. I believe it's called "argument by outrage".
Again, if you had a bunch of hooligans (rolling perhaps 100 deep) coming your way with intent to do you bodily harm, I don't think you'd be crying about a couple of bears coming to your rescue.
