An Evil Spirit from the Lord

[Paul4JC]

Well, that's a pitiful account. Are these "objects of destruction" created for that purpose?

Nonsense. They made their choices.

 

[Fervent]

I think we can be sure Job had been taught a different creation account than Genesis, and still had that account in his mind as he came to know God.

And the same was true of the Philippian jailer.

Yeah, though my point wasn't about Job but about God referencing the Uritic myth of primordial chaos beasts that preceded creation. The myth in question is the myth of Yam, which God puts Himself in the place of Yam in defeating the chaos beasts and tweaks the myth by removing any sense of struggle or use of His and Leviathans body within the creative act. It's significant because it shows that God is not above relying on myths and human understanding to convey His message, albeit with tweaks to those myths.

 

[RDKirk]

Yeah, though my point wasn't about Job but about God referencing the Uritic myth of primordial chaos beasts that preceded creation. The myth in question is the myth of Yam, which God puts Himself in the place of Yam in defeating the chaos beasts and tweaks the myth by removing any sense of struggle or use of His and Leviathans body within the creative act. It's significant because it shows that God is not above relying on myths and human understanding to convey His message, albeit with tweaks to those myths.

We wouldn't expect God to speak to pre-Bronze Age man in AI-Age man terminology.

Or rather, we wouldn't expect a pre-Bronze Age man to interpret a revelation from God in AI-Age man terminology.

 

[Rose_bud]

We wouldn't expect God to speak to pre-Bronze Age man in AI-Age man terminology.

Or rather, we wouldn't expect a pre-Bronze Age man to interpret a revelation from God in AI-Age man terminology.

...well Hammurabi did create the "code"

 

[Fervent]

We wouldn't expect God to speak to pre-Bronze Age man in AI-Age man terminology.

Or rather, we wouldn't expect a pre-Bronze Age man to interpret a revelation from God in AI-Age man terminology.

Certainly not, but my point is a larger hermeneutical one about how to understand Biblical accounts of origins.

 

[RDKirk]

Certainly not, but my point is a larger hermeneutical one about how to understand Biblical accounts of origins.

"Temba, his arms wide."

 

[TruthInLight]

I don't believe we can nail it down, as it seems our primary recourse is speculation.

Sure we can.

I present you chapter 26 of Leviticus. Verses 14-18, 21, 23-24, and 27-28 tells you what God does when people walk contrary to him. See/read the whole chapter to have a good idea and understanding of it.

People partaking in things with God ought to walk with God and try to be in right standing with God. The issue with King Saul and what went on with him is that he walked contrary to God. That is what I deduce about this.