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Offline theKit

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Joshua 7:11
« on: September 18, 2014, 10:59:10 pm »
I was reading the Bible today and arbitrarily decided to read Joshua and I as I was reading I came across the most hilarious thing ever. In the New King James version, God is pissed because He commanded the people to attack a particular city and kill everyone and burn all their shit (except the valuable metals) and explicitly commanded them NOT to take anything. Some assholes decided to be  sneeky and jack some stuff so God let a small battalion (3000 dudes) get their asses kicked by some peasant farmers. Then when Joshua is like WTF *cryCry* God says and I quote:
"Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. For they have even taken some of the accursed things, and have both stolen and deceived; and they have also put it amoung their own stuff."

I don't know why the idea that God would use the word stuff tickles me so much but I could have peed my pants after I read that passage.

No disrespect intended.

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Re: Joshua 7:11
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2014, 11:03:31 pm »
He was high as fuck as he wrote that, man. Cut the dude some slack.
who's the judge of if its funny and or clever? the mods. period.

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Re: Joshua 7:11
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2014, 11:06:35 pm »
Translations have been adapted along the way for readability. As the English language evolves, so do its translations. I wonder what the original Hebrew-equivalent was.

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Re: Joshua 7:11
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2014, 11:12:20 pm »
the reader has to keep in mind that the bible is a source of fiction intended as a method of controlling a less than mentally adept society

there are few to no historically accurate accounts

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Re: Joshua 7:11
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2014, 02:41:04 am »
I don't know you, I thought your avatar was funny and you probably hate blunderstar so I thought you were cool. Now I think you're an idiot and I hate you.

Congratulations,

Please die.

- The Kit