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Mousetrails - The First Holy War - Page 11

Sorry I haven't posted for a time. I had cataract surgery last Monday and again on Wednesday on the same eye. I shouldn't be here now, but the boredom is worse than the pain.
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Next we learn that God looked around one day and found some of his people were spilling blood elsewhere. Where and why they were spilling this blood was a shock, even after all I have learned. This is just one of the parts of the Bible they don't read in church. If they ever do, they will probably need a dictionary as I did.

Judged guilty of bloodshed? Judged by a God that has a blood fetish to be guilty of bloodshed? He's the one that taught them how to spill blood, so it must be very important to Him where, and who, the blood is spilled for! But let's go back to Webster's Dictionary.

NOW we"re getting a very distinct picture. The Jews were sacrificing to lecherous men with excessive or abnormal sexual craving, having a frenzied or orgiastic character. Interesting and different, but not what God wanted them to see. He wanted all this offered to Him. He wanted control of the Jews worship, and He wanted a river of blood at the altar. No, I don't believe river is an exaggeration. Remember the number of males old enough for battle? 603,550 men. That's a lot of sacrificing of ox, sheep, and goats! I believe river is the proper word.

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And now we deal again with human sacrifice. Remember Abraham and Isaac, and God sending an angel to stop what He Himself had ordered? And remember what God had ordered? He told Abraham to sacrifice (immolate) his only son to Him. Now He says doing the same thing to Moloch profanes His name. It's all right
for Him to grieve Abraham's heart beyond all human understanding and terrorize Isaac beyond reason, but don't do it for another god. He told them He was a jealous God. He meant every word.

Human sacrifice, blood sacrifice, and saytrs. What a time to be an animal or a Jewish child.

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OTHER GODS
Control of the Jews was not an easy task. They were continually finding other gods to worship making life for their God a continuous challenge. In this chapter you will discover there is a definite difference in an idol and a god. You will also find the gods that the Jews God was so concerned about were live human beings just like Him. The earliest mention of idols tells of a theft by Rachel of those idols belonging to her father.

God told Jacob to leave, but said nothing about the idol theft, so He must not have been too concerned with idols at this early stage of the gods "n" idols game. The next reference to strange gods comes not from God, but from Jacob. He wanted to start clean, but God still wasn't concerned with idols. So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him,

After God led Israel out of Egypt, He suddenly realized they had idols and other gods and proceeded to make all manner of new rules about their old gods. He was very efficient, covering all possibilities for idols in two sentences.

Then He made it painfully clear what would happen if they sacrificed to one of those other gods when He said,

He didn't even want you to mention another god's name.

He certainly didn't want His people to live beside anybody that worshiped another
god, so He told Israel,

And heaven forbid you should ever marry such a person!

I strongly believe this next verse of the Bible separates gods and idols. It leads me to believe that the idols they made were images of their living, breathing gods. Only real living flesh and blood gods would feel it if judgements were executed against them.

The God of the Jews would not bother to "execute judgements" on mere idols. Executing judgements on molten gods or idols would have been a poor place to show anger.

Edited: mousetrails on 16th Oct, 2007 - 11:47pm

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Again and again He reminded Israel,

He must have thought all His demands concerning other gods were falling on deaf ears. At this point, the God of the Jews became paranoid about the possibility
of His chosen people following another god. He ordered all other people in the area doomed.

This passage is very important because it mentions THEIR gods and YOUR GOD in a comparison, in the same sentence. It is curious to me that this all-powerful God didn't just wipe out all the other gods that bothered him. Why did He not, with all his power, remedy the situation once and for all?

When Moses was about to die, God told him Israel would worship other gods. He knew this because, ...

Several times in the Old Testament, the Jews turned away from God. He predicted it. He knew it was coming. But He was powerless to do anything about it except turn his back until they cried for help.

What a change! Back in (Exodus 22:19) God was going to doom anyone that sacrificed to another god. Now He just hides His face! And the battle of wills continued. He told them again and again, no other gods. And this time Webster's Dictionary makes it very plain with the word venerate that the, "other god" is a person!

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The "other gods" concept was always vague in the religion I was raised in. I have never heard any one even suppose that the other gods, warned against so many times, were more than just idols. In the next passage the Bible leaves no doubt that the god Baal is a male being capable of acting on his own behalf. In fact, there seems to be a question whether he really is a god.

And still the battle of the gods continued. All God's threats of doom, and all of His instructions, not to even mention other god's names, meant nothing to Israel. They still followed other gods.

Even after God had turned his face away, Samuel talked Israel into turning away from their strange gods. Although Samuel's God didn't appear in person to help, thunder terrified the Philistines, Israel won the battle, and God got the credit.
And now, almost one third of the way through the Old Testament, it is finally revealed what God is all about. He set out TO MAKE HIMSELF A NAME. He controlled a great number of people, and he did great and terrible things, all just to make a name for himself.

And over SIX AND ONE HALF MILLION HUMAN BEINGS DIED. MOUSE TRAILS INDEED!

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Here again the Bible text shows a definite difference in a goddess and an idol.

I believe the God of the Jews was no more "god" than Astarthe was a goddess. And still the battle raged on over which god is the real god. In a message to Jeroboam He said, ...

The phrase ..."strange gods and molten gods" tells me again the people of that time worshiped gods, AND idols. In another passage I found an example of a god being nothing more than a glorified human. Beelzebub was a living human being, capable of giving advice and counsel to help in making plans for the future.

The key word is, consult. The dictionary once again makes it very clear.

You cannot seek counsel with an idol. An idol won't give you information, or help you make plans. The god of Accaron was a living, breathing person, being held up as a god. When an Israelite consulted Beelzebub, it made the God of the Jews jealous.

The God of the Jews doomed His chosen people who decided to worship other gods. He ordered them to never even mention the name of another god. He also ordered them to throw people out of the land and to doom them that worshiped other gods, and hid His face from those that did. He believed his chosen people made molten gods only to provoke him to anger. He warned the Jews time
and again,
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He punished them in many ways, yet they continually and regularly turned their
back on him. This all-powerful God created the earth, as well as all living creatures, but when He made man, He left a small flaw in His creation. He couldn't get man to stick to the idea of just one god. This same God hung the stars in the sky, but could not, or would not, eliminate or make powerless the other gods that caused him and Israel so much grief generation after generation.

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OBLATIONS
I don't remember hearing the words oblation, or libation, in church, much less having them explained to me. So... back to the dictionary again.

Why? I wondered at this as a child. Why did God have no regard for Cain's offering? There was no instruction to this point in time on what to bring as an
offering to God. If I had been one of Adam and Eve's children, I would have brought the things I liked best hoping to find favor in my God's eyes. No wonder Cain was angry and downcast. This caused the jealousy that made Cain turn against Abel and kill him. Later, God became extremely specific about what He was to be offered and how it was to be prepared.

In a time long before refrigeration, not keeping animal fat overnight was a good instruction, but we"re back to 'the blood" fetish again. What did the blood have to do with unleavened bread? And for those of you that have questioned my statement that God consumed food, He uses the phrase ..."fat of my feast." Also when Cain was no longer around, God decided that "fruits of the soil," should be on His table and ordered 'the choicest," to be brought to the house of the Lord.

Then He became extremely specific and told them what he wanted for the morning and evening meal each day. He also told them how much fine flour to mix with a fourth of a hin of oil of crushed olives and as an afterthought, a fourth of a hin of wine. Oh! And bring the same thing in the evening twilight.

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All Bible quotes are from the Douay-Catholic Bible

I find four thousand year old recipes interesting to say the least. But when my banker, a very devout believer made the statement that, "God didn't eat." I was dumbfounded. My first thought was, "Which Bible has he been reading?" I guess the food God ate wasn't as exciting as the story about the walls of Jericho, so his church didn't bother to read about the food. But then why are all those specific recipes in the Bible? If God didn't eat, why did He go to the trouble of giving Israel specific instructions on the preparation of His food, and why did He call it ..."my feast?"
In this passage God seems to have discovered baked bread. But whether it was baked, fried, or deep fried, He wanted oil on it.

God had no regard for Cain's offering, but later He wanted fruit of the field and He wanted salt on it, every time!

There was even a special offering on the day Aaron was to be anointed. Once again, He was very specific on measurement, when to serve it, how much to knead it, and how it was to be cooked. ...