Can God create a snail so iron-filled that he himself cannot affect it?
Can God create a snail so iron-filled that he himself cannot affect it?
Referencing Judges 1:19 - “And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.”
And Chrysomallon squamiferum, “the only known extant animal that incorporates iron sulfide into its skeleton (into both its sclerites and into its shell as an exoskeleton)”.
God was granted immortality and control over the Universe, but in exchange, there's now a hyperintelligent snail which pursues him for eternity and kills him upon touch.
I didn’t want be the one to make that joke but I’m glad somebody did
Is it holding a lantern and a small dagger?
Can't god like, put a cup over it or something?
But the cup will break eventually.
Nothing can't beat something.
So, I do remember hearing about things that dislike iron....
Well I mean God doesn't exist so the snail would win by default.
Good grammar matters. “He” could be referring to God, or Judah. I would imagine any Bible Thumper would suggest that it refers to Judah, because there is no way that the Bible would suggest that God has limitations.
I did consider that. Using standard notation, the lowercase “he” as opposed to a capital “He” would mean that Judah is the subject, not God. Nevertheless, the first sentence implies that even with God, Judah was incapable to affect those with iron chariots.
because there is no way that the Bible would suggest that God has limitations.
Hebrews 6:18 "it is impossible for God to lie"
What gets really interesting when you try and work out whether or not God is supposed to have created "truth" itself
Hebrews 6:18 "it is impossible for God to lie"
You have to consider the source for statements like that. I’ve always asked the question — and of course never got a real answer — that if we all agree that man is fallible (regardless of how pious you are or aren’t), and man wrote the Bible, then how could we ever trust the Bible to be correct?
To put it another way, if the Bible is “the word of god”, and the Bible was written by sinful men, then it would be akin to listening to your favorite music through a piezoelectric speaker. A lot would get lost in translation; and probably the gaps would get filled in based on the level of intelligence and desires of the writers.
https://www.sefaria.org/Judges.1.19?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en is another translation of it which makes it seem like the team of the two of them couldn't do it. I don't know biblical hebrew to be able to say if that grammar is any better.
This dovetails nicely with my theory that Jesus hasn't come back yet because we invented the nailgun.
this is complicated.