Leviticus 26:14-17

 

From my The New American Bible, I will quote some verses about if the Hebrews—and by logical extension all peoples, everywhere—disobey God, God will punish them, ever increasing the pain until they return to the fold. This treatment may seem harsh, but God created us to enjoy our company, and our immorality and unholiness anger and distress the good deities mightily. We have free will, so we will be judged and punished should we not straighten up and fly right. Here are the verses: “But if you do not heed me and do not keep all these commandments, if you reject my precepts and spurn my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant, then I, in turn will give you your deserts.

I will punish you with terrible woes—with wasting and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop. I will turn against you, till you are beaten down before your enemies and lorded over by your foes. You will take to flight though no one pursues you.”

Here is these same lines from the Holy Bible (KJV): “But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; and if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant.”

My response: Yahweh is a covenant maker, and an oath-taker, and oath/covenant keeper. He is honest, keeping His word to humans after giving His word, but capricious, backsliding humans are less faithful, often openly defiant, and Yahweh will not tolerate such lying, rebellion and open defiance; it goes neither unnoticed or unpunished.

Holy Bible: “I also will do this unto you: I will even appoint over you terror, consumption and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your see in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies, and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.”

My response: If God sets His face against you, you are in a world of hurt: if that doesn’t scare someone straight, nothing will. I am no saint, but I do not want so to anger God that De sets De’s face against me.