Yadda wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2018 at 8:17am:


Using one example does not equate to fixation.

However an all powerful god, standing with Judah, should be able to defeat any foe before him. Including foot soldiers facing chariots.

Amadd wrote on Sep 24^th, 2018 at 11:40am:


Is there any real difference between "faith" and wishful-thinking?

Yadda wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2018 at 9:31pm:


Alexander the Great is greater than Yahweh, his foot soldiers wiped out Darius' chariots at Gaugamela.

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The_Barnacle wrote on Sep 25^th, 2018 at 9:43pm:



barnacle,


If that is correct, can you explain why human insanity and violence remains wholly unrestrained in the world today ?

Surely if human science has already extensively studied "human behaviour, identity and relationships" for the last century or so [and it has],
then surely human science would have found a useful methodology, which could be used and applied, to overcome and tame the source of human insanity and human violence ?

"There are many branches of science that study it."

If man's science and study, has a solution to such problems [i.e. the 'human condition'], then where is it ?




Dictionary;
Utopia = = an imagined perfect place or state of things.





QUESTION;
What is the solution to such problems ?


All ills even human ills, have causes.

If we ['human sciences'] continue to seek to address symptoms, instead of seeking to address the causes of problems,
i would confidently predict that mankind will never find a solution to the problems caused by 'problematic' human 'behaviour'.

Yadda wrote:

"Surely if human science has already extensively studied "human behaviour, identity and relationships" for the last century or so [and it has],
then surely human science would have found a useful methodology, which could be used and applied, to overcome and tame the source of human insanity and human violence ?"

I see no reason to make that assumption. The complexity of societies and populations are too vast.

Yadda wrote on Sep 25^th, 2018 at 12:00pm:


Not at all Yadda, you are the one adding to God's word, any burden placed upon you is your own making.

You are not reading Scripture, you are adding to it.  Adding your own emphasis.

Cu Chulainn wrote on Sep 27^th, 2018 at 11:30pm:


Cu Chullain,

Firstly, it was     Judah     who,    'could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley'.

Why not ?

I    believe    that Yahweh could have secured the success of the tribe of Judah.

But he did not.

Why not ?

I don't know.       [....and scripture does not explain why]




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Cu Chulainn wrote on Sep 27^th, 2018 at 11:30pm:

"Did he just want to see his people slaughtered?"

Cu Chullain,

Scripture states that those things recorded in scripture [particularly in the O.T.], were recorded as examples to us who read scripture.


1 Corinthians 10:1
Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2  And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3  And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4  And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5  But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6  Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7  Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8  Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9  Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10  Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.


O.T. scripture records many, many instances of men dying in conflict with other men.

Human history, has been a history of human conflict.

Isn't that a 'lesson' for us ?

Q.
Shouldn't that history, be a 'lesson' for all of mankind ?

And if it is a 'lesson' for us,       shouldn't we ask ourselves [something like];

What is the cause of so many conflicts between men ?



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James 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you?....



Don't you want to know the answer ?





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So, so often, we [mankind] don't set aside the time [our time], to seek out the answers to important questions.

And even when we [mankind] do seek out the answers,    so, so often we will 'brush aside' what those answers reveal,
as being 'inconvenient' to us.



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Gandalf - FOTR



Matthew 6:33
.....seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his [God's] righteousness;...







Indifference to human injustice and iniquity, is the gateway to hell.

Q.
Are you 'knocking on the door' ?