I'm going to go with "because it's a translation of a translation of a translation of a translation of a [positively recurse 50 times] of a translation of a book written by humans, who are fallible, specifically male humans, in a period where gender equality was occasionally allowing your wife to talk, oh, and there's absolutely no evidence the subject of said book existed in the first place".

Satan crops up twice in the bible. In the mean time, Jezebel, Delilah, Eve and almost every other female character who isn't meek and mild as milk is depicted as being single-handedly responsible for the fall of humanity, the betrayal of Sampson, David's inability to keep his man-parts in his underwear, and everything else that goes wrong with the world. It's no surprise equality has taken so long to even appear on the horizon when people are treating guff like this as an infallible or immutable document.

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Miguelinito <miguelinito@gmail.com> wrote:
Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

Then the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”

Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.”

But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.”

There's a couple of questions here:

1) Why Almighty God chose to be a man?

2) Why did Almighty God get angry with the laughter of a simple female mortal? Would he have gotten angry if she, just for *ignorance*, wouldn't have even made herself that question?

For all of you who read the Bible, this could be a nice topic for reflection. :)

Regards

Miguel Ángel


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