Prophets And Kings 4.3 - Elisha, Bears and Water

[@bibleburner8426]

Kristin makes a bunch of assumptions here regarding the scripture. Maybe the boys were really in fact young men, maybe the use of the word "small" really doesn't refer to the size of the perpetrators, maybe they were false prophets. Lots of tap dancing Kristin. On the face of it, it appears that god is a monster. Did you consider that possibility? Apparently, I should not take the scripture on face value here. Which ones should I take on face value? I guess not any one of the multitude that make god look like a monster, huh. Even if the perpetrators were grown men, even if they were false prophets, even if there were a thousand of them; is your god not loving enough, not wise enough, not powerful enough to simply make the "mob" disperse? Imagine how much more powerful the message would have been, if god was diplomatic instead of rash and brutal. A bible full of occasions where god talks people into behaving better; communicates through love and reason instead of killing, maiming, threatening and smiting. What a concept. Your god is a monster; when you are able to acknowledge that, the tap dancing ceases.

[@CatholicK5357]

Clearly a Christian Catholic is reading the Bible under the conviction that God is good, and therefor when a passage happens that we do not understand, we study it to find out what it means. What you call assumptions were given references to, mainly Scott Haghn. Scott is a professional and does not make 'assumptions'. You however have made assumptions. You assume that God is a moral monster before reading the Bible and then interpret it thus. This makes it humorous that you accuse others of making assumptions while doing so yourself. It seems what you are actually upset at is that others disagree with you about God. You can hate God if you wish, but don't expect others to. And you certainly should not be trying to get others to.