Christianity and Science

Did Jesus Write Ecclesiastes?

Considering the Science of God and the Role of Impossibility

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Many parts of the Old Testament are filled with the temper tantrums of an angry God. For example, there’s the time when Moses complains to God in the Book of Numbers that the people are asking, “Where’s the Beef?” when all they had was the manna from heaven that God had provided during a previous crisis.

God responds to his upstart people by sending clouds of more quails than they can eat, then kills a bunch of the complainants when they try to wolf down as many of the beasts as they can:

Then a wind from the Lord sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits[c] above the ground. And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the…