The wagers with Satan and tests of mankind are very strange to me, considering that he should have known in advance how it all would have turned out. Maybe he just wanted to be sure we’d tell the story.
A here’s another person a few thousand years removed from a story they don’t believe a word of showing strangers on the internet that they’re concerned enough about a druggy Hebrew religion non-happening to prepare and share their art project. I bet they can find better work.
One of my “favorite” parts – all-knowing God, must bring man to the brink, to know.
Guess it’s: all-knowing*.
The wagers with Satan and tests of mankind are very strange to me, considering that he should have known in advance how it all would have turned out. Maybe he just wanted to be sure we’d tell the story.
Or maybe he’s not real, not what “the good book” tells us ?
Reading The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell summed up all religion for me quite nicely.
Why does an omniscient being have to get in pissing matches?
What kind of God would ask a father to do that, to put him through so much anguish, just to prove a point?
I felt bad when he killed him.
was that the directors cut?
A here’s another person a few thousand years removed from a story they don’t believe a word of showing strangers on the internet that they’re concerned enough about a druggy Hebrew religion non-happening to prepare and share their art project. I bet they can find better work.