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Sounds like some Bible Extended Universe lore. I don't know the deal on who Nimrod is or how he interacts with the story, those are just my thoughts on the straight Genesis text.
I double checked them and I *guess* I could see a sarcasm angle... but it just doesn't stick out that way as my first instinct. Though to be fair, God as a literary character in these stories is really schizo to try and pin down in terms of motives and thought processes, so I guess almost anything is fair game.
Like when I finished the flood narrative, my jaw dropped when I read,
>21 The Lord smelled the soothing aroma, and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
Huh?? How is the omniscient God having an epiphany that "Y'know what? Mankind is just evil by nature, and sometimes they burn a mean sacrifice, so no point in wiping them all out like I just did."
I'm interested in reading the whole bible at least once, but these instances, which seem to be many in the old testament especially, give me a headache.
>The Lord smelled the soothing aroma, and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
This is another case of God speaking figuratively, because He doesnt have passions, it wasnt the smell of the sacrifice that pleased Him, it was the Righteousness of Noah. He knew from the moment He created Man that Man would have the capacity for great evil, solely because of the nature of Free Will.
I *highly* recommend getting a Douay-Rheims, it has nice footnotes that clarify some of the more confusing passages.
The DRB annotations are literally the exact opposite of Sculfield's, ironically, which is why I recommend it. The truth is, a lot of the bible is incredibly figurative while other parts are incredibly literal, and the average person simply wont be able to tell which is which on their own. (In fact, midwit translations like scofields are evidence of this).
Judging by his early life, I think he was just a useful pawn who was intelligent enough to provide a translation for his masters, but too stupid or maybe just greedy to actually bother seeing if the translation was correct
I double checked them and I *guess* I could see a sarcasm angle... but it just doesn't stick out that way as my first instinct. Though to be fair, God as a literary character in these stories is really schizo to try and pin down in terms of motives and thought processes, so I guess almost anything is fair game.
Like when I finished the flood narrative, my jaw dropped when I read,
>21 The Lord smelled the soothing aroma, and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.
Huh?? How is the omniscient God having an epiphany that "Y'know what? Mankind is just evil by nature, and sometimes they burn a mean sacrifice, so no point in wiping them all out like I just did."
I'm interested in reading the whole bible at least once, but these instances, which seem to be many in the old testament especially, give me a headache.
This is another case of God speaking figuratively, because He doesnt have passions, it wasnt the smell of the sacrifice that pleased Him, it was the Righteousness of Noah. He knew from the moment He created Man that Man would have the capacity for great evil, solely because of the nature of Free Will.
I *highly* recommend getting a Douay-Rheims, it has nice footnotes that clarify some of the more confusing passages.
That's exactly what apologetics is.