5.3 Curse

5.3 Curse

Curse – definition: a prayer or invocation [calling upon] for harm or injury to come upon someone: imprecation [to invoke evil on]: evil or misfortune that comes as if in response to imprecation or as retribution [receiving of reward or punishment]: a cause of great harm or misfortune: torment [extreme pain or anguish of body or mind]: to use profanely [abusively] insolent [insulting] language against: blaspheme [address with irreverence]: to call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury: to execrate [detest utterly] in fervent and often profane terms: to bring great evil upon: afflict [to cause persistent suffering or anguish  ]: swear ‹cursing loudly›. Merriam Webster Dictionary

 For those of you who did not have the time to look up the text we gave in 5.1 Curse we give you the Deuteronomy texts:

 Deuteronomy 4:    3. Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.

 Deuteronomy 12:29-32   29. When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land;

30. take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

31. Thou shalt not do so unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.

32. What thing soever I command you, that shall ye observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

 Deuteronomy 24:1-4       1. When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

2. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].

3. And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

4. her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

 Comments: Jehovah says that he is the only god and that there are no gods before him nor after him. Why then is he singing this ritual over and over? And why kill the people and their prophets who have turned to another god?

 What kind of god hates? Hate is the opposite of love. Does his mean that Jehovah has no love in him? Also, what kind of god kills? There is very little mention made of the Law of Karma in the Old Testament. There is: An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Let’s just use two from the New Testament: You reap what you sow. What you do unto others will be done unto you. Won’t Jehovah reap all this cruelty he bestows on his chosen folk?

 Just one example: If you were a soldier and you raped a woman in a village. After both you and that woman die you are shown the anguish you caused. The woman was helpless then but now she wants revenge. The man then decides that in the next life he will be a woman in a rural village and the woman can be a soldier in some resistant armed group. When he (formerly she) comes upon the village, he (she) rapes the woman (formerly the soldier). The raped soldier (the previous woman) then hates the current soldier. And so, the cycle goes on and on until one of them forgives the other. No god.

 Judaism’s god, Jehovah, favours the man. A man who does not like something in the woman he married, can give her a divorce paper. She is allowed to marry another man and there is no defilement. But if this second husband dies or divorces her, it is not allowed for the first husband to take her back because she has been defiled. He realised that he has done wrong with her and she forgives him, why not permit them to get married again? Throughout the Pentateuch you will find many such anomalies (something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified).

 Read up the following:  

Jeremiah 26:4-6. Exodus 33:23. Leviticus 4:31; 21:5 and

1 Kings 14:10 and 19:10, 14.