SAMSON
The Bible, purporting to have been authored by God, tell us the story of the saviour figure and superhero Samson.
Judges 13 records the appearance of an angel (or God himself v22) to the
barren wife of Manoah, to announce to her the future
birth of a son. “Behold, you shall
become pregnant and bear a son. No razor
shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite
to God from birth” (13:5). “Behold, you
shall become pregnant and bear a son, and now drink no wine or strong drink and
eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite
to God from birth to the day of his death” (13:7). The law was that a Nazarite
could not drink alcohol or have his hair cut (Numbers 6). When the baby came along she called him
Samson.
Samson killed a lion with his bare hands and ripped it to shreds and
contrary to the angel’s prediction he ate honey that was made by bees that made
their abode in the carcass (Judges 14:8,9).
This honey was unclean food.
Also, when Samson ripped up the beast it would have been dead and the
angel said he would be a Nazarite forever meaning
that he would not defile himself by touching a dead body.
Samson married a Philistine woman named Delilah. God miraculously gave Samson the supernatural
strength of the superhero variety but cutting his hair would take it away. Samson foolishly confided in Delilah that if
his hair were cut he would lose the charism of
strength given to him by God’s spirit, even though she had already attempted
twice to betray him to her countrymen, the Philistines who were his most bitter
enemies. Accordingly, she had his hair
cut when he was fast asleep and handed him over to them and they gouged his
eyes out. Samson knew what Delilah’s
motives were, yet he gave in to her nagging and told her his bizarre secret –
he might as well have cut his hair himself!
Consequently, he lost strength and was now no longer a Nazarite. The
angel’s prophecy was false. Since God is
all knowing and all-powerful it is impossible that he couldn’t predict the
future (Deuteronomy 18).
Bible believers say that the angel only commanded that Samson be a Nazirite from birth to death and was not making a
prediction. If he was then he was
commanding that she make her son a Nazarite from
birth to death for the baby was not born yet.
You can’t become a Nazirite from birth any
more than you can become a nun from birth.
It is a matter of choice. Thus
the angel is unlikely to be commanding.
He is predicting. No angel would
command Samson and his mother not to give Samson a haircut when there were lots
of ways he could have had some cut. And
the message of the angel is worded like prophecy and there is no hint that it
is a mere command.
The idea of the Philistines or
Delilah not being able to stab Samson to death while he slept is
preposterous. They were going to kill
him and he was dangerous so he would have been killed. Like Jesus, Samson is a myth or an
exaggeration. When a book contains
revelations from God and angels and contains myth that shows that its
prophecies cannot be trusted.
BIBLE QUOTATIONS FROM:
The Amplified Bible
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Bible, John W Haley,
Are There Hidden Codes in the
Bible? Ralph O Muncaster,
Harvest House Publishers,
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Gleason W Archer, Zondervan,
Evidence that Demands a Verdict,
Vol 1, Alpha, Scripture Press Foundation, Bucks, 1995
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and Forever, Floydd C McElveen,
Gospel Truth Ministries, Grand Rapids, 1985
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It Ain’t Necessarily So, Investigating
the Truth of the Biblical Past, Matthew Sturgis, Headline Books,
Jesus Hypotheses, V Messori,
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Morris, Moody Press, Bucks, 1988
Science Speaks, Peter W Stoner,
Robert C Newman, Moody Press, Chicago, 1976
The Bible Code, Michael Drosnin, Orion,
The Case for Jesus the Messiah,
John Ankerberg Harvest House,
The Hard Sayings of Jesus, FF
Bruce, Hodder & Stoughton,
The Late Great Planet Earth, Hal
Lindsay,
The Signature of God, Grant R
Jeffrey, Marshall Pickering,
The Truth Behind the Bible Code,
Dr Jeffrey Satinover, Sidgwick
& Jackson,
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The Unauthorised Version, Robin
Lane Fox, Penguin, Middlesex, 1992
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Bodily Resurrection of Jesus, Raymond E Brown, Paulist
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Dave Hunt, Harvest House,
When Critics Ask, Norman Geisler and Thomas Howe, Victor Books, Illinois ,1992
THE WEB
www.awitness.org/essays/levjer.html, A Levite
Scribe Pretends to be Jeremiah
www.geocities.com/Nashville/Opry/2092/False.html,
Was Jesus Christ a False Prophet?
www.awitness.org/lostmess/fprophet.html,
False Prophecy in the Prophets of the Bible
www.hotcc.com/users/shagbark/daniel.html,
Kyle Williams, Daniel is False Prophecy
http://cs.anu.edu.au./~bdm/dilugim/secrets.html,
Secrets of the Bible Code Invented, Brendan McKay
www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/indef/4d.html,
When is a Prophecy Miraculous? Richard Carrier
www.mindspring.com/~bab5/BIB/lessons.htm
What the Heck is a Jesus Code? This
tells us that the Bible Code has a lot of phrases of Satan, His Name is Jesus
all through Isaiah 53.
www.infidels.org/library/magazines/tsr/1995/3/3proph95.html
All Prophets Were False! Stephen
Van Eck
www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/prophecy.html
False Prophecies, Broken
Promises, and Misquotes in the Bible
www.infidels.org/library/modern/steven_carr/non-messianic.html,
Steven Carr, Critique of Josh McDowells Non-Messianic
Prophecies This Site cannot be overly recommended. It is superb.