Homo Sum:
humani nil a me alienum puto

3 Responses to “Good Friday, Part 1”

1. will shetterly Says:
   April 6th, 2007 at 2:02 am
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   So who are the ten? I want Satan’s kill list! (Keeping up with God is too much work.)

2. Mr. McLaren Says:
   April 6th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
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   The ten are the seven sons and three daughters of Job. And even those I think God should get some “credit” for, since Satan did it on a bet with God.

   Note that the 2 million plus number for God only includes those cases where specific numbers are cited (i.e., doesn’t include the flood or Sodom & Gomorrah, etc.) I’ve seen one attempt to enumerate the numbers, with chapter & verse citations, over at Dwindling in Unbelief, and he comes up with a slightly higher number: 2,270,369 (plus)

   The same guy later tried to estimate numbers including all the cases in the Bible where God does some killing without specific counts. In that estimate, he comes up with a number of roughly 33 million people killed–again with citations.

3. will shetterly Says:
   April 8th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
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   For the folks who think God is all-powerful and all-knowing, the numbers don’t matter in the end: God gets us all.

   And, yep I think God gets at least half the credit for Satan’s 10. I need to check sometime whether the Lot game was God’s idea or Satan’s. The all-everything notion means that even if Satan suggested it, God knew Satan would suggest it and let Satan suggest it and maybe even made Satan suggest it.

   Post-zoroastrian duotheism is one of those metaphors you’re not supposed to think about.

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