Hosea
Introduction

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Injustice
Cruelty and Violence
Women
Family Values
Contradictions
Language
Absurdities
Sex
Intolerance
Prophecy
Interpretation
Good Stuff

Hosea: Absurdity

  1. God tells Hosea to commit adultery, saying "take ... a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms" because the land has "committed great whoredom." So Hosea did as God commanded and "took" a wife named Gomer. 1:2-3

  2. "I will destroy ... her fig trees." (God hates figs.) 2:12

  3. "She decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD." 2:13

  4. "Fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days."
    Why would anyone fear goodness? 3:5

  5. Because of the Israelites' disobedience, the land mourns, and all the animals are dying. 4:3

  6. Because of the Israelites' disobedience, the land mourns, and all the animals are dying. 4:3

  7. "They have made princes, and I knew it not." 8:4

  8. "The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad." 9:7

  9. "The LORD ... shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west". 11:10

  10. God will rip humans apart and then eat them like a lion. 13:7-8
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