A practical definition for "God"

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Lek: not sure if you missed my post earlier, or didn't want to reply to my points.

Either way, it's not in the least surprising that the NT lines up with the OT. The authors of the NT had the OT right in front of them. All they had to do is make up stuff that lines up with it. Anyone could do that. There's clear evidence of them trying a little too hard to do this in places, and due to them not understanding the language properly, they produced ridiculous scenes like Jesus riding on two asses at once. Matthew misunderstood the original, which only actually meant one ass.

It's like they had the answers at the back of the textbook and were just copying them. Is that really impressive? Are you impressed when one Harry Potter book lines up with the previous one?

Actually, Jesus doesn't line up at all with the OT. If he's meant to be God (originally he wasn't, that was a later addition) then he is also the psychopathic murderer we read about in the OT, which Christians try so hard to push to the background.