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Solomon was an idiot. What did he think the women would do? It does not say that one said to go a head with it, just that one was willing to give up her claim before the other got a chance to speak. I don't care who you are, you are going to say something to stop a madman who is about to cut a baby in two. If the woman could talk that fast, then she was not in very much shock over the idea. The other woman, who was unable to speak, might have been the real mother and just did not have a chance to say anything. I know it would take me a few moments to collect my thought if someone wanted to cut my kid in two. So it still a very poor story with flawed logic.
As for he whole OT - NT thing, I don't believe that those are the same God. Never have. But that was not the point I have been trying to make. That is a different subject that what my post was about. And according to Christianity they are the same God, so I have often connected them because of that. Of course that is a post for another time.
A for OT God being better, since I do not for one moment think either is is real, I really think it is the same as asking who would win, Superman or Mighty Mouse?
Not sure why I have Christian thinking, but I really do not see it. I am a little puzzled by your comments there.
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kooka_lives
on December 1, 2003 at 4:49 PM
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kooka, kooka, kooka!!!
sometimes you really make me shake my head. Solomon was not necessarily trying to determine the correct biological mother (an impossibility for people at the time anyway) but trying to resolve an irresolvable conflict between two people - which I happen to think he did brilliantly. Secondly, and more importantly, like many people you confuse the God of the Old Testament (especially as he appears at the time of the Kings) with the God of the New Testament. And like so many others you find the God of the OT to be wanting. The criteria you use however, whether consciously or not, is always to judge the OT according to the morality of the NT(what today we call Christianity). Now as you seem to be opposed to organized religion, but not necessarily Christianity, what I say may leave you indifferent. But I can assure you that from a non-Christian view point, the God of the OT is a thousand times superior to the NT. Everything you criticize is in fact the sign of a strong and healthy religious spirit - a form of worship in which God becomes an expression of thankfulness.
I am afraid you cannot see this, for like most people, whether religious or not, your thinking remains fundamentally Christian - even - indeed especially - when you are criticizing Christianity.
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pg_scott
on December 1, 2003 at 5:24 AM
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