Psalms 80-85

[wolfpurplemoon]

Psalm 80: A prayer from someone who says God has turned away from Israel and has done some bad things to his people. They will still worship him though...
Psalm 81: This appears to be God's answer to 80, he thinks that Israel didn't listen to him so he gave up on them.
Psalm 82: Continuing the theme started in 80 & 81
Psalm 83: OK, I get it, God will smite enemies of those who follow him without question, I'm just not sure I know why this is a good thing
Psalm 84: God, who is the sun and a shield, has houses that this guy would prefer to be the doorkeeper of than to dwell inside a wicked place
Psalm 85: Blah blah, God is being mean, blah blah.

Comments

Question

[(Anonymous)]

What has sparked your interest to read the Bible although you're a non-believer? Is it to disprove? Gain insight? What do you expect to have achieved at the end of your course? Curious

Re: Question

[wolfpurplemoon]

My reasons for starting are hazy now, it's just something I've wanted to do for a while and for me the best way to do a challenge like this is to set myself a deadline and follow a schedule, so at the beginning of last year I knuckled down and got on with it after getting an illustrated Book of Genesis for Christmas.

By the end I'm not sure I will have achieved anything of great substance, apart from knowing a little more about what is in the bible, I have just less than three weeks to go and I'm not sure I've attained any insights I didn't have before.

question

[(Anonymous)]

Do you find he bible to be truth, a pack of lies, or a crazy history? CS Lewis said that it and Jesus has to be one of these things.

Reply of 85

[cody baird (from livejournal.com)]

The Bible says times in several ways that truth if folly to the blind.

You seek the truth? You are reading the Bible to know more and understand something?

Persever to the end. Really study Jesus. Do not base our faith in Him on us (the church of believers in Christ) base it on Jesus. Judge His message not our failures in following it.

Back to 85.. Psalms. Read it again. It is not the outcry of someone saying "God is mean" it is someone saying God show us Your will. We want you. We know You are faithful and perfect. We suffer. We do not say you are unworthy of praise because we suffer, we still praise you!