(March 11, 2016 at 3:35 pm)robvalue Wrote: I thought it was a given God is meant to omni benevolent and all that shit. If he's not, I have no argument. He's an evil bastard, job done. Or perhaps beyond my puny comprehension.
Not quite certain, but when you talk about god, he's a mirror of what the society conjuring him up wanted him to be. The OT is a perfect mirror of a paternalistic and not very educated society.
But this isn't the only god being a mirror of their society. All the Greek and Roman gods are too. The only difference being that they created a celestial government with individual human traits and vices.