Amos
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Absurdities in Amos

  1. The divine pyromaniac threatens to "send fire unto" Hazael, Gaza, Tyrus, Teman, Rabbah, Moab, and Judah. 1:4, 7, 10, 12, 14; 2:2, 5

  2. It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 2:10

  3. God says there are three or four reasons for him to punish Moab. But he only mentions one: "because he burned the bones of the king of Edom." So God burned Moab because they burned some bones. 2:12

  4. God destroyed the Amorites who were a race of giants as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. 2:9

  5. On the day of God's wrath, brave men "shall flee away naked." 2:16

  6. God afflicts the Israelites with "cleanness of teeth" (famine) and drought. And then he wonders why they don't turn to him. 4:6-9

  7. God sends the pestilence, kills young men with the sword, and makes t1e "stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils." 4:10

  8. Many Christians look forward to the "day of the Lord," but according to these verses, they shouldn't. 5:18-20

  9. "Wo to them ... that chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick."
    Wo to musicians. 6:1, 5

  10. "Woe to them ... that drink wine in bowls." 6:1, 6

  11. "The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself ... I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city." God swears to himself that he hates Jacob's palaces, so he will deliver up the city (and kill everyone in it). 6:8

  12. "Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD."
    (If God hears you, he'll probably kill you, too.) 6:10

  13. God stands on a wall holding a plumb line while he talks to Amos. 7:7

  14. God swears "by the excellency of Jacob." 8:7

  15. "Shall not the land tremble for this?"
    (Earthquakes are a punishment from God.) 8:8

  16. Amos sees God standing on the altar. 9:1

  17. God will "slay the last of them with the sword." Any that try to escape by diving to the bottom of the sea will be bitten, at God's command, by a sea-serpent. 9:1-4