Isaiah 49-53

[wolfpurplemoon]

God's chosen man feels that his work to spread God's work is in vain but he knows that he'll get a reward from God in the end.

God is as attached to Israel with the same strength as a mother is to her infant, but stronger because a mother might actually abandon her child and God would never forget Israel because he's written their names on his hand (which is why Sarah Palin though she was so godly for that)

God is an attention seeking, emotionally insecure deity, and that is particularly shown in chapter 50. He is upset that Israel abandoned him despite his apparent power.

God is the chosen man's alarm clock.

The chosen man will become so disfigured he will no longer look human and will scare people into following God.

God was physically hurt by Israel's rebellion, or so he says, classic attention seeking behaviour.

I'm a little behind and trying to catch up today, so apologies in advance for a sudden rush of posts.

Comments

Re: Interestingly...

[wolfpurplemoon]

I'm deeply sceptical about the fact that these chapters could be a prophesy about Jesus, it is far more likely that the people who wrote about Jesus (decades after his death is what I've heard) fit their versions of his story to the prophesy. I've said before that I'm sure I could easily write an unverifiable account of an event that apparently occurred several decades ago to fit a prophesy written centuries before that.

Re: Interestingly...

[(Anonymous)]

Indeed you could, but it would not pass muster with the eyewitnesses of the events in Jesus' life. The new testament confirms that many of them were alive at the time it was written, and their accounts had been used as source material. No documents along the lines of 'it didn't happen like that!' are available. So were the eyewitnesses satisfied with what was written at the time, or had they all died and the NT author(s) telling porkies, or were perhaps there never any eyewitnesses in the first place?