Today’s Jesus and Mo was supposed to arrive on Wednesday, but I think the author/artist is still on vacation, for this week’s strip is a repeat from 2006. That was in the antedeluvian era before this website began:
At any rate, here the barmaid judges God’s parenting skills and finds them wanting.
Nanny McPhee is a 2005 UK film starring and written by the lovely and talented Ms. Emma Thompson. I’m not sure the reference has aged that well for most 2021 readers, at least on this side of the pond.
As a father of 2 young ‘unruly’ children without a mother, I must say i kinda liked that film (didn’t read the story though).
Give the deity his due. The conventional interpretation is that if Adam and Eve didn’t eat the fruit, they *wouldn’t* die – ever. If your baseline is immortality, going down to a few hundred years lifespan seems like a pretty severe outcome. It doesn’t seem too misleading to describe that big decline in prospects as “you will die”.
If you read the whole story, You’ll see it was never implied that Adam and Eve were immortal by default. In order not to die, they needed to eat the fruit of the “Tree of Life”. Furthermore, God gave a time scale for the death
Adam would die the same day as he ate of the Tree of Good and Evil.
It’s worth pointing out that this warning was delivered before God even made Eve, so she didn’t hear it, at least, not from God. Also, God didn’t see fit to explain to Adam what death is.
It is the act of expulsion from the Garden of Eden that condemns Adam and Eve to death (eventually) by denying them access to the Tree of Life.
Note that this is not part of the punishment. God had already handed out Adam’s punishment.
Thanks. Guess I shouldn’t get my biblical scholarship from _Good Omens_.
I thought you got it from listening to Christians. It’s a common argument they use when it’s pointed out that God lied about Adam dying on the day he ate the fruit. I think very few of them have actually read the story of the Fall.
IIRC. Nanny McPhee lost her warts and protruding teeth as the children became better behaved… in the end she was blemish free and perfect and left when the job was done that is, well behaved kids.
In the case of deities, WE mortals are left with the warts and ugly behaviours and worse, those deities won’t GO AWAY!