Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-04-14

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be visible in his face But what is he
jealous of? Perhaps the following QUO
tation will explain. In Deut. xxxii. 10
to 25 inclusive, he expresses in strong
language his condemnation of certain
class, and then adds:
l said, would scatter them into corners, l
would make the remembrance of them to cease
from among men:
Were it not that feared the wrath of the
enemy, lest their adversaries should behave
themselves strangely, and lest they should say,
Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done
all this
After having threatened with demo-
Mae vengeance, he says he would do
still worse if he dared to.-if he was
not afraid of the enemy, and afraid he
should not get the credit of it,! 1t
would seem that s'the enemy" he is
Jealous of Another specimen of his
imbecility is given in Gen. vi. 81:
And God saw that the wickedness of man aras
great in the earth, and that every ina gination
of the thoughts of his heart 'cas only evil con-
tinuallv.
And it repented the Lord that he had made
man on the earth, and it grieved him at the
heart
And the Lord said, will destroy man whom
| have created from the face of the earth; both
man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the
fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that have
made them
Then the Infinite was unable to fore
see that man would be 'sonly evil con-
tinually,'' and he was ''grieved at the
heart" by rejecting upon the act he
had so thoughtlessly performed, and
resolved to. make amends for his own
shortsightedness by destroying the re-
suit of his own careless labors. Q, how
little do men who believe this know Of,
and how low they estimate, the charac-
ter of the Being they thus so wantonly
traduce and blaspheme! In Exodus
xxi. II, the Lord is reputed to have
said:
1t is sign between NE and the children of
! Israel for ever for in six days the Lord made
| HcdNCl anu cdftl, ana on the seventh DAY ne
rested and was refreshed.
After working six days, the Lord be-
came tired and rested on the seventh.
We don't believe he was ever Gre
freshed," because we don't believe he
is made up Of the material that can be-
come fatigued. In Judges tx. 13, it is
implied that God drinks wine:
And the vine said unto them, Should | leave
my wine, which cheereth God and man, and 90
to be promoted over the trees?
In Isaiah V. %, hate and cruelty are
manifested:
| Therefore is the anger Of the Lord kindled
against his people, and he hath stretched forth
| his hand against them, and hath smittcn them :
and the hills did tremble, and their carcass2s
arere torn in the midst of the streets For all
this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
! is stretched out still.
In Genesis xi. 7, it would seem that
the Lord is decided to afllict his people
in a novel way, for he says:
Go to, let US go down, and there confound
their language, that they may not understand
one another's speech.
In Exodus Xxx. and 6, is another
specimen Of Gods jealousy:
the Lord thy God am Jealous God, visit
ing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation of them
that hate me;
And shelving mercy unto thousands of them
that love me and keep my commandments.
In Deut xiii. TO II inclusive. we
find very curious and dangerous law,
which is unworthy the authorship Of
even the Wisconsin Legislature:
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy
son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom
or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice
thee secretly, saying, Let US 60 and serve other
gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy
| fathers;
Namely, of the gods of the people which are
round about you, nigh unto thee or far off from
thee from the one end of the earth even unto
the other end of the earth
Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor heark-
en- unto him; neither shall thine eve pity him.
neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou con
ceal him:
But thou shalt surely kill him: thine ha nd
shall be first upon him to put him to death, and
afterwards the hand of all the people.
And thou shalt stone him with stones that he
die; because he has sought to thrust thee away
from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out
of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall
do no more any such wickedncss as this is,
among you.
What an excuse here is for the muir
der of a brother, or even son! The
murderer might say, He the murdered
person) enticed me secretly to serve an
other God; and who could contradict
him? The only witness in the case is
murdered!
The Almighty is represented as hav-
ing tried his hand at experiments, in
which he has failed; as having created
man for happiness, but owing to the
bad conduct Of the created being, the
result will be misery to all but mere
fraction Of the race, He is also repre-
scented as resorting to mental occupa-
tons. Gen. Ii. 81, makes God a gar
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