Comments on: Go Up Baldy: The Curse of Baldness

By: Zab

Zab — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:13:10 +0000

Sorry, dont know why the hyperlink didnt display

http://www.christian-thinktank.com/qmeanelisha.html

By: HeadRoaster

HeadRoaster — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:18:50 +0000

Atheist Advocate- you aren’t an atheist if you’re that mad at God…you’re mad at God. If you were a true atheist (Like santa and the easter bunny) you’d just giggle and find something more confusing to say.
Concerned- he/she already knows that and it’s that attitude from other Christians that’s probably turned him/her off of God to begin with. Realize that God is a god of love…that he IS love according to his own declaration Telling someone that you are praying for them in this fashion is NOT LOVE. It is fear mongering and brow-beating, neither of which are things which the God of Abraham, Issac, or Jacob would have done.
Agagooga- Don’t you realize that it is a record of HUMAN events?? It is a history of the wickedness that mankind has done to corrupt and brutalize himself. If the man who doesn’t study history is doomed to repeat it then the surest way to continue that corruption and brutality forever is to maintain the attitude that we shouldn’t ever admit the behaviour existed! I don’t know what world you live in, but in my world, the evening news portrays a world where your viewpoint (i take it you agree with paine) is definitely the most popular and violence, horror, and trauma are prevalent.

about the story that started this…man, that’s hard.

By: Agagooga

Agagooga — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:54:39 +0000

“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. And, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.” – Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

By: Concerned

Concerned — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:58:49 +0000

I pray for your soul Athiest Advocate, I pray that you are not devoured by the true King, the Lord Of Hosts.

By: Atheist Advocate

Atheist Advocate — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:53:44 +0000

I really don’t care if this god ever reveals his ways. What a cop-out load of crap!!!
He is the cruelest mass murderer in the universe and I demand he turn himself in to the nearest police station where he should be judged for his atrocities!
He is the one who laid down the laws that he can’t seem to adhere to. If he knows everything, then he is aware of this ‘citizens arrest’ and he should turn himself in. He is being charged with thousands of counts of murder, conspiracy to commit murder by leading the crusades. And, Murder for hire, for giving nut jobs forty virgins for blowing people up with suicide bombs! I DEMAND JUSTICE for all the innocent people who have suffered at his hand! Turn yourself in you wacko! BTW, after the trial you will surely ‘Go up Baldy!’

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 02:40:03 +0000

God is perfect and holy while all people are imperfect sinners. therefore, we will never know the ways of God unless He reveals them to us.

By: slaveofone

slaveofone — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:26:09 +0000

Is it wise to make anything more than speculative judgements about obviously incomplete or fragmentary narratives?

Or maybe this event is supposed to parallel something else in the larger narrative, like, for instance, how the description of wine going out of Nabal is there to parallel David’s curse on those who “piss agains the wall”, even though “pissing aginst the wall” actually refers to Nabal despising David and his men even though they stood as a wall of defense for him.

By: None

None — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:02:34 +0000

Apologies, one more point: is the issue here the taunt of his baldness or the fact that they asked him to “go away”. Now back to the World Cup.

By: None

None — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:59:24 +0000

Sorry I meant Elisha.

By: None

None — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:49:01 +0000

If a prophet’s main role was to call God’s covenant people back to faithfulness to Himself and if part of the covenant was to teach one’s children covenant faithfulness (and I note the fate of disobedient children in the Sinai covenant) and that prophets were God’s spokesperson in life, action and word then the fact that little children taunt a prophet of God could indicate the extent of covenant unfaithfulness.

The fact that the author/editor indicates that Elijah prayed but the bears devoured the kids hinting that this was God’s own judgment…

That is how I would put it together.

Taunting God’s prophet in this context would be indicative of thumbing your nose at God.

(And I note too that God was quite severe in sending out the Levites to slay even their brethren, and that he was just as severe with Ananias and Sapphira etc etc. There is a pattern here throughout scripture where in each period of history, God just kind of reminds His people just who they are messing with…