>Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”>When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.What did G-d mean by this?
>>18221868For one the "42 boys" version is a mistranslation.In the original text "na’arim" has many possible translations, and you see 10+ different translations for it in Greek depending on the context.So,first point: a gang of 42 children mocking a prophet? No, these weren't children, but young men.Second point: This happaned in Bethel or near it, and Bethel was GOLDEN CALF pagan central back in the days. So you see the situation here, Elisha encounters a gang of 42 pagans who approach him and start mocking him, paints a pretty different picture compared to little children joking about his shiny head don't it?The bears came to protect the prophet's life
>>18221868All God's are mythologiesAll holy books are fictional
It's so funny seeing Christians talk about God as some abstract perfect being with the cosmological arguments. argument from contingency etc. and then in the Old Testament he's unleashing bears on people
>>18222101Hey, watch it. They mocked his hairline!
>god can't stop a random person from mugging, raping, and murdering you because uh free will>unless of course you mock the hairline of a guy he likes in which case expect the bears
>>18221914How did you get from him being mocked for having a baldhead and told to go away to his life being in danger? Was there another mistranslation where mock actually means attack and go away means to stay there so they can attack him? Why didn't he have to defend himself at all from any attack, why did Elisha specifically wish for bad things to happen to them instead of for them to understand the fault in their ways, why did the bears have to immediately rip them to shreds if it was just defensive, wouldn't the presence of loyal bears alone be enough to stave off an attack?
>oh nyooo 42 lads died oh noooo what kind of religion is this noooooooIf you had fucking 42 whateveroomers all mocking your hairline and a button to bring out bear force one, we all know what would happen
>>18222314If I had a diety that could do literally everything I would just ask him to fix my hair
>>18221868It means if you mock God or God's representatives that you will get rekt.
>>18222321They weren't mocking god or its representative, they were mocking a baldhead, there is no evidence they had any idea of elisha's associations just that some bald old asshole was struggling to walk up the hill, he never even announced himself or mentioned his god.
>>18222327He was a major prophet who performed miracles.
>>18222335Sure and those boys totally read the bible and saw the color picture version before he wandered up their hill, so they should have known better.
>>18221914So the punishment for mocking someone is death?
>>18222343He succeeded Elijah after Elijah was taken directly into Heaven by God personally.
>>18222350Yeah and the boys totally just finished reading the bible and scrutinizing the pictures of Elisha it contained and knew exactly what happened the day before in a city nearly 20 miles away since word spread so fast those days.
>>18221868God, I love sharing the history forum with intellectually bankrupt Christian fundamentalists.It means nothing because it was some shit a stone age man wrote 3000 years ago. A petty revenge fantasy. Christians have a lot of them, arguably that's what the whole religion is based on.
>>18221914You really think a Jew would do that? Be made fun of and then lash out with a psychopathic degree of violence?
>>18222383>A petty revenge fantasyWhatever you say, bearbait
>>18222383The stone age wasn't 3000 years ago...
>>18222429Is that you coming out as an emotionally fragile baldhead without actually coming out as an emotionally fragile baldhead?Can I call you EFB for short since I am also assuming you are also short since your post screams short energy?
