Hokulele, The Bible is all about Jesus and his divinity, have you been paying attention when you say you read it?
Let's examine that statement. I'll choose a few passages and we'll look at them. Perhaps you could explain how they relate to Jesus' divinity? Or any passage from Jewish scripture?
First, from Genesis, Chapter 30:
[35] But that day Laban removed the he-goats that were striped and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in charge of his sons;
[36] and he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob; and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.
[37]
Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the rods.
[38] He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the runnels, that is, the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,
[39] the flocks bred in front of the rods and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.
[40] And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own droves apart, and did not put them with Laban's flock.
[41] Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding Jacob laid the rods in the runnels before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the rods,
[42] but for the feebler of the flock he did not lay them there; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
[43] Thus the man grew exceedingly rich, and had large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and asses.
Seems like Jacob believes in some weird form of Lamarkism, but no mention of Jesus as god or not as god. Maybe you could help me out here?
OK, next up is one of the all-time favorites -- the story of the Levite and his concubine from Judges 19:
[22] As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, base fellows, beset the house round about, beating on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him."
[23] And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my brethren, do not act so wickedly; seeing that this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.
[24] Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine; let me bring them out now. Ravish them and do with them what seems good to you; but against this man do not do so vile a thing."
[25] But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine, and put her out to them; and they knew her, and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.
[26] And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man's house where her master was, till it was light.
[27]
And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
[28] He said to her, "Get up, let us be going." But there was no answer. Then he put her upon the ass; and the man rose up and went away to his home.
[29] And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and laying hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.
[30] And all who saw it said, "Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak."
Since the Bible is all about Jesus' divinity, please explain how the godhead is revealed in these passages. Or is it that your claim was baseless? Or that, as Nietzsche once said of Christianity that it produces bad readers?
