{"id":23243,"date":"2010-09-05T11:37:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T19:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23243"},"modified":"2010-09-05T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T19:44:16","slug":"god-a-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23243","title":{"rendered":"God: A Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

I loved this book<\/a> by Jack Miles and read it twice.<\/p>\n

Dennis Prager, however, was not a fan.<\/p>\n

Numbers 14: 11-12 says<\/a>: “The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them? 12 I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they.” <\/p>\n

In his 2001 lecture on Numbers 14:17 – 15:31, Dennis Prager says: I differ with those who say this is typical Old Testament primitive understanding of God. It is the sophisticate’s notion that God matures as you go through the Old Testament. I don’t buy that.<\/p>\n

These things bothers those with PhDs. They believe that God should’ve spoken in a more sophisticated way: I hear the complaints of the Israelites but I understand the psychological impotence that makes them this way. I understand the mentality that slavery develops.<\/p>\n

This would be regarded by those who think that God grows up as very mature.<\/p>\n

God’s reaction is for a primitive people. If God had responded in that PhD way, they wouldn’t have learned anything. A super-sophisticated parent raises a neurotic child. It is the Jews who are primitive, not God.<\/p>\n

God can’t give a 21st century response to 1200 BCE people. This is it. This is direct. This is how they learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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