RicOlie_2 said:

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.

Oh....yes, so in that everything that happened good or bad in the Bible could be just Man attributing events to God?

This is what I think really happened,...man trying to explain things, beyond his knowledge....there must be an invisible God....like the wind, like gravity