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Post #678442

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RicOlie_2
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Ask the member of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church AKA Interrogate the Catholic ;)
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Date created
16-Dec-2013, 6:33 PM

Jaitea said:

What do you think about the passage in 2 Kings 2:23-24 when God sent two bears to maul to death 42 youngsters because they mocked prophet Elisah for being bald?

Is that part of the Bible that gets skipped nowadays

J

 When bad things are attributed to God in the Bible, I think that is because of the way people viewed God at the time. The author of 2 Kings knew about a couple of bears that had mauled some children, and those children had earlier been mocking Elijah, so he attributed the maulings to God taking action against the children.

I don't have my Bible handy and I'm not familiar with that passage, but that's how I understand it. Did Elijah ask God to do something to the children? If so, then I don't know the answer to the question. The first sentence of my answer is still relevant to other situations though.