31 Bible facts about God and Devils crimes on Earth

I do not judge the God of the Jews and the God of the Christians. Here are just a few facts of his as the biblical authors imagined. I must mention that it is no different from other ancient gods like Zeus, Enlil, Amon-Ra, Odin, etc.

And if the universe is a simulation, a video game, and God is this player or developer, that's it, he has the right to do what he wants in this universe because it's just his game.

1. Condemning and punishing people to a horrible, unjust, mortal, and miserable life just because Adam and Eve disobeyed his command and ate the fruit stopped from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and from here all misfortunes departed, driving them away. from Eden. From that moment, the Creator condemned every human being born on this planet to experience weight, grow old, and die.

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt review – how a myth was exposed photo: The Guardian

Historically, hunter-gatherers wanted to eat more than nature gave them and began farming 12,000 years ago. Since then, there have been social inequalities, wars, famine, difficulties in agricultural work, human immunity and life expectancy have decreased, there have been diseases such as obesity, plague, malaria, tooth decay, venereal disease through the development of urban areas. I mean, we wanted to progress, but we have to take on the difficulties and put all this in the hands of God

2. The Great Biblical Flood - 20 million people drowned because they became sinners, including the giants of fallen angels who slept with human women

Historically, only a few thousand people were killed in the floods of Mesopotamia in the 2900s BC. as the Epic of Gilgamesh relates

FLOOD STORIES FROM MESOPOTAMIA photo: Facts and Details

But 20 million dead seems like a trifle for Mao Zedong and Stalin

3. The burning of Sodom and Gomorrah - several thousand inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah were burned alive for debauchery and arrogance, including Lot's wife just because she returned.

Archaeological evidence confirms that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by intense fire photo: OpentheWord.org

History: around 2000 BC, two large prosperous Bronze Age trading cities were wiped off the face of the Earth by an earthquake and underground gas explosions, not by an angry god or a meteor shower.

4. Onan - because he masturbated and did not leave his wife pregnant according to God's command

Why Did God Kill Onan? (Bible and Contraception)  Dave Armstrong Patheos

5. Isaac - commanded Abraham to sacrifice him on the mountain like a lamb only to then tell him that he "put him to the test."

Why God Commanded Abraham to Kill Isaac The Cripplegate

6. The Ten Plagues of Egypt ruined the Egyptian economy and civilization by destroying hail and locust crops, fishing through the red Nile, killing animals with insects and lice, injuring people with bugs, and the three-day darkness of the desert storm. And God hardened Pharaoh's heart to refuse Moses' requests.

History: These catastrophes happened but at a long interval

7. The killing of the firstborn in Egypt by the angel of death because Pharaoh did not want to free the Jews from slavery at the request of Moses, resulting in thousands of deaths.

History: This also often happened in times of famine when fathers offered more food to newborns because they needed the most food and it happens that wheat crops are moistened, moldy, and infested with parasites.

8. The entire Egyptian army drowned in the thousands in the Red Sea after its separation because they were pursuing the Jews freed from slavery

The Crossing of the Red Sea — Nicolas Poussin Gallerix online museum

History: this fact is not proven, but battles are known through swamps where the Egyptians got a bit stuck against the Semitic peoples, but which were not recorded, the pharaohs of that time having the habit of making propaganda

9. The sons of Aaron, burned alive because they did not perform the proper ritual.

Aaron's moment of thundering silence   Yael Unterman  The Blogs - The Times of Israel

10. Thousands of Jews were killed after Moses caught them worshiping the golden statue of the goddess Hathor. Although God wrote in the tablets "Thou shalt not kill," He still commanded Moses to kill thousands of sinful Jews.

11. "2 million" hungry Jews, killed by epidemics and burned alive, held stranded in the desert for 40 years

I think what Yahweh did here is comparable to Hitler's Holocaust. The god behaves very badly with his chosen people

12. 50,000 Jews burned alive for touching or seeing the Ark of the Covenant and desecrating it as if it had radiation.

Lessons from the Ark of the Covenant : Christian Courier

Too bad it wasn't gold, it was wood.

13. Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and their families are swallowed up by Pamnat because they assumed they were as holy as Moses.

Maybe he swallowed a shifting sand.

14. 15,000 Jews burned alive and killed by epidemic for following the Korah

15. Thousands of Jews bitten by snakes complained to Moses and could no longer bear their hand and dessert, but were eventually healed by a bronze pole in the shape of a serpent.

16. 24,000 Jews killed by the plague because they had sex with Moabite women and worshiped Baal. But maybe they died of syphilis.

17. Thousands of Amorites killed by hail for declaring war on Israel

Religion Bible Old Testament army Joshua defeats Editorial Stock Photo - Stock Image  Shutterstock

18. 200 Philistines killed and with their penises cut by David at God's command

19. King Ahaziah killed for seeking advanced medicine and not praying to God

20. 102 soldiers burned alive by Jews at the command of the prophet Elijah

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21. 42 young men killed by bears for making fun of Elisha's bald spot

22. A lot of people ate lions because they were sinners

23. 185,000 Assyrian soldiers killed in sleep by the angel of God for invading Israel

Paleopathology and the Destruction of Sennacherib's Army Besieging Jerusalem in II Chronicles 32, II Kings 19 – Electrum Magazine

A higher number than the soldiers killed in the Somme in the First World War in one night, more like the victims of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

24. Jeroboam because he rebelled

Jeroboam - Wikipedia

25. Ezekiel's wife - just for God to show his point of view

26. So did Job's family, children, and servants, but then others brought him

27. Ananias - died of a heart attack, fell into Peter's arms because he lied

28. Herod - eaten by worms because he killed babies

History: it is not proven such a massacre, but indeed, he killed his sons, but he also built a lot

29. Jonah - swallowed by a "whale". He didn't die, but it's an absurd punishment, it sounds like some stupid beta game.

30. Jesus, His Son Himself - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.   For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

He let him be betrayed by Judas, arrested, humiliated, mocked, spat upon, whipped, and crucified.

What kind of parent would do that to his child? Even a god to his son or demigod, there is no such atrocity in any other mythology and that is why the poor crowded to worship him because it is an atypical story about sacrifice for salvation.

Why wouldn't he do it from the start just by snapping his fingers like Thanos, to bring back paradise and salvation?

Why does it test our faith by causing us harm?

31. According to the Revelation of John, God will kill another 3, 387,272,727 people to Armageddon with meteorites, earthquakes, droughts, epidemics, famines, floods, fires, collapse, crises, wars, etc.

And that the souls of all sinners will end up in Hell.

Total:

At least 33 million people killed in 3,000 years!

Nothing compared to Stalin and Mao.

God cannot be judged by the laws or conceptions of men.

In an analogy with politics, God would be an absolute dictator, because he is the sole and eternal possessor of his unlimited powers. Even if it upsets us sometimes, who dares to rise against Him? All we have to do is pray and be content with what we receive.

The devil is not a negative equivalent of God, because he has no divine powers. The devil has only the power to tempt us, including against God, and He tolerates him to put us to the test because the trials strengthen us.

The devil does not exist separately from humans, but only in each of us. If you will, the devil is a genetic mutation at the origin of the appearance of human consciousness and, in particular, of the goal of immortality, which I interpret as immortality in a memetic sense. Resistance to temptation is how the human species can become truly immortal.

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If this sound is indeed the devil's music then I am lured like Paganini "How else do you think I could sing the way I do?"

Niccolo Paganini (1782 - 1840)

Certainly few of you reading this material might think of the great Italian composer and violinist as an individual who has got talent following a pact with the devil. But a closer look shows that sources Paganini weather was not bad away from rumors and, moreover, he chose not to rebut ever. In fact, right from his birth in a poor family of a merchant lacks luck, his mother had a dream premonition in which i was told that her son will get the greatest violinist in the world it has ever known.

Following this dream, his parents did everything to fulfill the prophecy. By the age of 7 years, Paganini perfectly learned the secrets of mandolin and violin, which played the first tools. Up to age 11 she was beginning to show itself, because up to 13 years to be already known as a violin virtuoso. Up to 19 years began to compose his own music, and at age 23 already create works of tremendous value. At 27 and already had a huge audience wildly successful ... and rumors of collusion to assure such a fame already circulating on everyone's lips. Curiously, when asked whether such a rumor is true, Paganini replied nonchalantly: "How else do you think I could sing the way I do?"

Niccolò Paganini (1819), by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres photo: wikipedia.org

Paganini's decline began at age 40 when he was diagnosed with syphilis. Weather empirical treatments, treatments that included mercury and opium, they practically destroyed health. Dressed always in black, pale, almost without any tooth, Paganini was only a shadow of the beautiful and talented young man who astounded Europe. People were convinced that Paganini now paying the price of which had given talent unnatural.

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First Recorded witchcraft Confession and top 10 Salem witchcraft trials "So-called witches were forced to admit confessing to being involved in witchcraft"

Mary Johnson Photo credit: witchcraftandwitches.com

Update today 19/05/2020 

While nowhere near as famous as the Salem witchcraft trials that took place in 1692, the great Connecticut witchcraft panic, which lasted intermittently from 1647 until 1697, set a precedent in American history. Of course, these trials presaged the later series of events in Salem. But the manner in which the trials came to an end opened the door for more rational and logical examinations of supposed supernatural phenomena.


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The First Recorded Confession


In the mid-17th century, a single witness was all it took to get someone tried for witchcraft. Sometimes, all that was needed was one accusation from a prominent member of society. In 1648, Mary Johnson was tortured into confessing that she was involved in witchcraft. Two years earlier, Johnson, a servant, was accused of theft. 

Mary Black Arrest Warrant image wikipedia

A local minister named Samuel Stone believed that Johnson was guilty of much more, so he whipped her until she said that she had trafficked with the Devil. In particular, Johnson claimed that she had conspired with the Devil to complete her household chores, sleep with several men, and even kill a child.

Samuel Stone Sr. photo: wikitree.com

 In December 1648, Johnson was executed for these crimes. While in prison awaiting her trial, Johnson gave birth to a son who was quickly indentured as a servant to Nathaniel Rescew. The boy would remain under Rescew’s tutelage until he turned 21.


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The First To Die

It is widely believed that Mary Johnson was the first accused witch to die in Connecticut (if not America). However, a woman named Alse (Alice) Young is the rightful holder of this ignominious title. On May 26, 1647, Young was hanged at Meeting House Square in Hartford (the site of today’s Old State House) following her brief trial. Little is known about Young.

Mary Johnston - Wikipedia

Old State House Hartford Connecticut photo: wikimedia.org

It is believed that she was born in England around 1600. Her husband was a man named John Young, who settled in the town of Windsor sometime between 1630 and 1640. It likely that Young was executed for the crime of making herbal folk remedies for her fellow settlers. Alice Young Beamon, Young’s daughter, would later be accused of witchcraft while living in Springfield, Massachusetts.


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The Peculiar Town Of Wethersfield

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During the early 1650s, several individuals were hanged for supposedly practicing witchcraft throughout Connecticut. The convicted included:


John and Joan Carrington (both executed in 1651), 

Goodwife Bassett and Goodwife Knapp (executed in 1651 and 1653, respectively), 

Mary “Goody” Paine Bassett (1620-1651) - Find A Grave Memorial

Lydia Gilbert (executed in 1654), Rebecca and Nathaniel Greensmith,

Lydia Gilbert – History of American Women

Nathaniel and Rebecca Greensmith – Hartford, Connecticut Witches Legends of America

Mary Sanford and Mary Barnes (all hanged in 1662).

Although some of these individuals came from places like Hartford, Fairfield, and Windsor, some came from or had connections to the town of Wethersfield. A later “witch,”  Katherine Harrison, was a medical practitioner in Wethersfield. 

More on Connecticut's Witch Trials | You're History!

Because of this fact and because Wethersfield was the hometown of Mary Johnson, the term “Wethersfield witches” has been used by historians and amateur scribes alike. Interestingly, the Carringtons and Johnson, all of whom were from Wethersfield, were active members of their community prior to the allegations levied against them.In colonial America, many accused witches were neither fringe members of their community nor easily classifiable as “outcasts” or “misfits.” This was certainly the case in Wethersfield.


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The Great Hartford Panic

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Between 1662 and 1663, the city of Hartford fell under the spell of an intense anti-witchcraft hysteria. Beginning in March 1662

Anne Cole found widespread support from her community when she accused Rebecca Greensmith and Elizabeth Seager of using magic to torment her. 

Nathaniel and Rebecca Greensmith – Hartford, Connecticut Witches Legends of America

When an eight-year-old Elizabeth Kelly died after suffering prolonged stomach pains, her parents accused a woman named Goody Ayres of strangling their daughter through the use of black magic. Many of the stories from Hartford were incredibly bizarre.

 One woman claimed that Satan had caused her to speak with a Dutch accent, while one eyewitness claimed that she saw her neighbors transform into large black hounds during the nighttime. All told, three accused witches were executed.

Hartford Witch Trials of 1662 Learn Religions

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The Saga Of Katherine Harrison

A Modern Witch Trial photo credit: city-journal.org

As previously mentioned, Katherine Harrison was a practicing physician in Wethersfield at the time that she was accused of being a witch. Harrison was accused of practicing astrology and using her spectral familiars (including a black dog and a calf’s head) to visit the houses of her neighbors on moonlit nights. Harrison was formally indicted in May 1669. 

Amazingly, despite being accused of witchcraft by approximately 30 witnesses, Harrison was acquitted after a jury could not reach a verdict. She returned to Wethersfield, but several residents signed a petition urging that she be sent back to prison. Finally, in May 1670, Harrison was once again released from prison after the colonial governor and several clergymen challenged the evidentiary standards used in Harrison’s case


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The Importance Of John Winthrop Jr.

John Winthrop, often known as "John Winthrop, Junior" or "the Younger", was the eldest son of John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Mary Forth, his first wife. His father left the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the spring of 1630, and John stayed behind to care for his stepmother, Margaret (Tyndal) Winthrop, and the Winthrop children, as well as his father's businesses. He was governor of the Colony of Connecticut in 1657, and from 1659 to 1676. photo: wikipedia.org

Also known as John Winthrop the Younger, Winthrop was the son of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Prior to becoming the governor of the Connecticut Colony, the younger Winthrop had been educated in England and had traveled extensively in Europe. According to one historian, Winthrop learned alchemy in Europe and practiced folk magic for much of his life. 

John Winthrop Jr. (1606-1676) Connecticut History

As such, Governor Winthrop knew firsthand how difficult practicing “natural magic” could be. As governor, Winthrop began to question the flimsy evidentiary standards of his colony’s witchcraft trials. In particular, Winthrop grew to question the legitimacy of “spectral evidence,” or eyewitness claims about being “tormented” by spirits or seeing spectral familiars.


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New Standards Emerge

Because of Governor Winthrop’s hesitancy to accept “spectral evidence,” he played a major role in the two acquittals of Katherine Harrison. Indeed, following the conclusion of the Hartford panic in 1663, Winthrop, along with several magistrates and clergymen, established new guidelines for future witchcraft trials.First and foremost, Winthrop clearly defined what constituted diabolism. Winthrop believed that only pacts, or sealed contracts made with the Devil, made someone a witch. 

New-York Historical Society

Pact in Backwards Latin photo: wikipedia.org

Crop failures or sudden deaths did not necessarily mean that witchcraft was afoot. More importantly, Winthrop decreed that for a witchcraft trial to proceed, two people had to see a witch’s specter at the same time. This ruling drastically reduced the number of witchcraft panics for almost three decades.


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Witch Hunting Moves To Massachusetts

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The standards set by Connecticut held for many years. In 1688, however, a new witchcraft panic gripped Boston, the largest and most important city in Puritan America. Following the death of Winthrop in 1676, New England lost the greatest champion of a rational approach to the supernatural.Winthrop was replaced by Increase Mather, a Harvard-trained theologian and the author of “Remarkable Providences.” Mather believed strongly in the existence of witches. 

Massachusetts Puritans Quote of the Day

Although he accepted many of the dictates established by Winthrop and the Connecticut magistrates, he nevertheless oversaw the execution of Goodwife (“Goody”) Ann Glover. Ann Glover and her daughter worked as housekeepers for the family of John Goodwin. Following a dispute over some missing laundry, the Goodwin children began acting strangely.

A local doctor diagnosed them as being bewitched. Soon enough, Glover, an Irish Catholic who probably only spoke Gaelic, was accused of being a witch. Mather himself deduced that the Goodwin children were bewitched. Glover was hanged in November 1688. She would be the last “witch” to be hanged in Boston.


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The Stamford Panic Of 1692

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During the same year as the Salem witchcraft trials, a servant named Katherine Branch mysteriously fell ill. For weeks, she suffered convulsions and mused wildly about her affliction. At one point, Branch began telling people that a cat often spoke to her about possessing the finer things in life. 

Branch also said that this cat would sometimes transform into a woman. Following a flurry of accusations, two women—Elizabeth Clawson of Stamford and Mercy Disborough of Fairfield—were formally accused. 

Case of Elizabeth Clawson (Elizabeth Clauson). Testimony of Sary Connecticut State Library

Fortunately, many people were suspicious of Branch’s story. Following a series of experiments (including dunking the accused witches in a Fairfield pond), both Clawson and Disborough were ultimately acquitted.


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The Last In Line

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While Sarah Spencer and an unknown individual named Norton were the last accused witches in the history of Connecticut (they were accused in 1724 and 1768, respectively), Winifred Benham and Winifred Benham Jr. were the last two accused witches of the 17th century. 

Almost five years after the conclusion of the witchcraft panic in Salem, the Benhams of Wallingford (some documents say that they were from New Haven) were tried for making a pact with the Devil to gain the power of transformation. 

A Modest Inquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft" by John Hale Pinterest

Similarly, both Benhams were accused of using their spirits to inflict bodily harm on their neighbors.Luckily, both Benhams were acquitted. It’s likely that early criticisms of the proceedings in Salem helped to save these two women from the gallows.



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