More Monsters and Some Near Monsters of the Bible

In the beginning, the elohim created skies and earth.

Welcome back. I hope your Sabbath was as restful and blessed as mine.  Today is Sunday, our Christian worship day.  I will continue what I began about monsters of the Bible.

Those horndogs among the heavenly host who gazed upon our women and desired them were monsters.  There is no indication in the story that our women found them equally desirable.  Were they taken?  Could Liam Neeson have saved them?

Abraham nearly became a monster, and he would have if the messenger from God had not stopped him from sacrificing his son, Isaac.  He didn't treat his wives very nicely either.

Esau probably could have been a monster, and felt justified in doing so after his little brother tricked him out of his birthright and his father's blessing, but he turned out all right.

Joseph’s brothers were pretty awful when out of spite and jealously they threw their little brother into a pit.  That turned out okay. 

Saul was totally bipolar.  One minute he likes David and asks him to play music for him, the next minute he throws a spear at him.  Thank God he never had a nuclear button to press.

Elisha's curse that sent bears to kill those children was quite monstrous.

Those religious nuts who killed Ahab and Jezebel were monstrous indeed.  So were the French during their revolution, but they are not in the Bible.  If only someone had thought of the idea of voting their rulers into office, those bloody messes might have been averted.

Joshua and the Israelites were monsters.  They stoned, and then burned, a kinsman, Achan, and, “his sons and daughters, and his oxen and asses and sheep, and his tent, and all that he had.”

Wow, they even burned his tent?  All this over stolen loot?  

Imagine that.  Apparently, it's okay to invade, murder, and pillage as long as the commanders get to keep the booty, but not the grunts.  

By the way, Joshua said Yahweh told him to do it.  He was just obeying orders.

Nations and their governments can be monsters.  The Babylonians who flung three good Hebrew boys into a furnace were quite wicked.  They were obeying King Nebuchadnezzar’s orders. 

They also put Daniel into a lion’s den.  Of course, these same Babylonians burned Jerusalem to the ground, destroyed Solomon’s temple, and carted off 10,000 rich Hebrews to Babylon.

The Romans were monsters.  They murdered Jesus, Peter, Paul, and just about every man, woman, and child in Jerusalem circa 60-70 CE.  They continued to kill Christians until the Edict of Milan when they all became Catholic.

After that, they murdered Christians whom they called heretics.

Next time, I'll write about two towns that were quite scary.

Blessings...