OK... speaking as a Presbyterian agnostic/atheist (which of the two I am depends on which definition of either word is used...) here come some guesses (and probably mostly wrong...)
God told Adam and Eve they could eat anything in the Garden of Eden, except the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Serpent told Eve that she'd misheard the old guy. She told Adam likewise. Oops.
God gives Noah a weather forecast. Rest of Mesopotamia laughs at him. Noah gets the last laugh.
Joshua is beseiging Jericho with an army and a bunch of trumpeters. He gets all his trumpeters to play at once. The walls of Jericho fall down. Think about this the next time you hear a Salvation Army band.
Two women petition King Solomon, each claiming motherhood of a baby. Solomon suggests they take half the baby each and prepares to undertake the division himself. Only one of the mothers cares enough about the infant to point out that this is a bad idea. So she gets the baby.
God told Abraham that if Abraham really loved him he'd sacrifice his son, Isaac, to him on an altar. So he drags the kid up to the altar and is about to dismember said son when God says, "Only joking!" (At least I think this one is from the Bible. Unless I'm getting it confused with Highway 61 Revisited...)
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Date: 2007-09-09 11:13 am (UTC)God told Adam and Eve they could eat anything in the Garden of Eden, except the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Serpent told Eve that she'd misheard the old guy. She told Adam likewise. Oops.
God gives Noah a weather forecast. Rest of Mesopotamia laughs at him. Noah gets the last laugh.
Joshua is beseiging Jericho with an army and a bunch of trumpeters. He gets all his trumpeters to play at once. The walls of Jericho fall down. Think about this the next time you hear a Salvation Army band.
Two women petition King Solomon, each claiming motherhood of a baby. Solomon suggests they take half the baby each and prepares to undertake the division himself. Only one of the mothers cares enough about the infant to point out that this is a bad idea. So she gets the baby.
God told Abraham that if Abraham really loved him he'd sacrifice his son, Isaac, to him on an altar. So he drags the kid up to the altar and is about to dismember said son when God says, "Only joking!" (At least I think this one is from the Bible. Unless I'm getting it confused with Highway 61 Revisited...)