I may have but your ignoring that quote on using evil and your immoral thinking on genocide cleared that up.
I happen to be working on something that you might want to opine on it.
It has some relevance here.
Found. The tree of knowledge of good and evil.
I will assume here that those who compiled the books of the Bible knew what they were doing, in terms of giving us a myth with a moral lesson.
God is said to be the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning and the end. Bible God is to be at the top and bottom of any attribute we can think of for God. He is to be our example of the greatest love as well as the greatest hate.
Nope. Alpha and Omega mean begging and the end not greatest love and greatest hate.
The Bible tells us not to add or subtract from it and to use it as it’s own judge. If we are to do so then we must judge what is in it as good or evil. FMPOV, the O T shows God’s evil side and the N T shows God’s good side. Most recognize this and this is why the emphasis is on following Jesus and not the barbaric God of the O T. IOW, the O T is the evil side of the tree of knowledge while the N T is the good side of the tree of knowledge.
Jesus and the God of the OT are One and the same. The OT showed His uncompromising standards and his uncompromising justice. The NT Showed the Way for salvation to those who could not live up to His standards.
Jesus said:
Matthew 23
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who
kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often
I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
Who sent the prophets? Who wanted to Gather them like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings? Why the God of Abraham did, Jesus.
Many that follow the Bible God recognize this. Literalists and fundamentals do not. They end up venerating the evil side of God, the O T, as well as the good side, Jesus and the N T, when they are supposed to be rejecting the God of evil in the O T.
The people who claim that the NT has no uncompromising justice in it should have a read of the Book of Revelation. Those people are in denail to the extreme.
Literalists and fundamentals can thus be seen as immature thinkers and true sheep. While Christians who recognize the evil in the God of the O T can be seen as better thinkers and able to discern good from evil, literalist can be seen as poor thinkers who cannot discern evil. They end up with a theology that embraces anything from genocide to infanticide as long as God is doing it. Arguably an immoral position.
NT:
Revelation 19
13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The
Word of God. 14 And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. 15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it
He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written:
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
Who is the
Word of God? Who is the
King of Kings and Lord of Lords? Jesus is, that’s who.
And:
Revelation 6
16 and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the
wrath of the Lamb!
Who is the Lamb of God? Yep, it's Jesus.
This is how literalists and fundamentals all end up hurting their parent religions.
Maybe in the eyes of people who want to conform God into the image of god that they want to exist.
Literalists and fundamentals thus end up having much work to do on their morals because they are hindered by the notion that they should be embracing and honoring an evil God.
It's called an all round view of God, not distorted one dimensional view that seeks to deny major facets of God, They only end up with a view of a god that does not exist.
In effect, from a biblical standpoint, they are the Anti-Christ, as they continue to venerate evil.
Who do you follow, the good God, or the evil God?
There is only One God. Back to your dualism again i see.
Reading the Bible as I do, and seeing it as containing the tree of knowledge and the tree of life, make this book all inclusive in and of itself and in that way, I am true to the authors and compilers who said not to add or subtract anything from it. It was meant to show a complete story and God and I think that reading it as I do is the only way to understand the full story.
Reading it as
You do. Is only that.. Reading it as
You do.
Only when God allows you to read it as He wills it to be read can anyone have hope of coming to any true wisdom about God.
All Praise The Ancient Of Days
