Journal entries by Jill Williams
Submitted by Jill Williams on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 23:28.
God thought that practically every king in today's reading was evil. God seems very very picky.
Submitted by Jill Williams on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 00:48.
God tests David by telling him to count the people in Isreal. But when David doed this, God gets angry. Okay, how much sense does this make? Again, God seems to be depicted as a spoiled brat!
Submitted by Jill Williams on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 00:18.
In verse 7, it says "The king spared Mephibosheth son of Johnathan...". But in verse 8, it says "...the king selected...Mephibosheth , the son...of Razpah...". This looks like a contradiction, unless: 1) Johnathon and Razpah werr married (I forget if they were) or 2) they both had a son with the same name.
Submitted by Jill Williams on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 01:37.
I think David and Johnathon was a gay couple. I mean, they loved each other and they even kissed. Other opinions?
BTW, just to point out, I did read this yesterday. I'm just late on blogging. :)
Submitted by Jill Williams on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 23:58.
I have to say this: THANK GOD I'M OUT OF NUMBERS! That had to be, so far, the worst book I've read. So boring and full useless info! I have kinda looked ahead in the Bible. I'm hoping that from here on out these readings become easier and more interesting. I notice that, so far, Deuteronomy is just a summary of what's already happened in past books.
Submitted by Jill Williams on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 03:28.
I really don't have much to say about today's reading (yes, I already did it, at 3AM, except to say that I now know why the 4th Book is called Number LOL
I'm really tired now, but if I have something to say later about this reading I'll post it. :)
Submitted by Jill Williams on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 23:10.
There were defineately a lot of rules in this reading. I noticed something interesting (again): while there are many sex rules, I didn't read anything about sex before marriage. I think that that rule was added later.
I'd also like to note something else: for 1 sacrifice God asked for bread and wife. Isn't that Jesus's last supper?
Submitted by Jill Williams on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 23:13.
Again, a lot the unnessary details repeated over and over again. And the law started. I can kinda understand the laws about infectious people, but what's with all the food laws?
Submitted by Jill Williams on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 23:51.
Today's reading was really boring! It was basically all of the details for how God's dwelling was to be built? Why did God need a dwelling, anyway? And why does Exodus repeat itself? I swear, I read the details of the dwelling like 3 times in to past 2 days!
A couple more questions while I'm at it:
1. Why does God only speak to Moses?
2. Why does God refer to Himself in the third person?
3. How come if the people looked at God, they would die? Was He like really really ugly or something?
I also noticed that, once again, God is shown to be very impulsive and lack self-control. When the Isrealites worshipped a gold calf, God wanted to destroy them (or something like that). But MOSES HAS TO TELL GOD TO THINK TWICE! Thank goodness God can at least listen!
Submitted by Jill Williams on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 23:40.
Today's reading shows a very demanding God. He sets all these rules. And breaking a lot of them (or sinning as it's called) required death. Then he want a dwelling, built perfectly with excruciating detail! I sure hope these readings get better, because right now they're mostly reminding me of why I don't view the Bible as the authoritive word of God. A loving God would never be as mean as the God in these readings seem to be!
I also noticed something else: God wanted prients for his dwelling. Later it's revealed that he wanted 12. Well, Jesus had 12 disciples. Coincidence?
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