Micah
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Absurdities in Micah

1. "The LORD ... will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth." 1:3

2. "The mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft ... and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley."
   (Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are caused by God's anger.) 1:4-6

3. God (or Micah?) will "wail and howl" and "go stripped and naked." 1:8

4. Micah says "woe" to those that devise evil , but only two verses later, he devises evil against "this family." 2:1, 3

5. Watch out for lying prophets that bite (with their teeth). 3:5

6. "The prophets thereof divine for money." Some things never change. 3:11

7. "Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom."
   Advice like this is only found in the Bible. 7:5