Without the Shedding of Blood There is No Remission of Sin

[Chad32]

If I believe large section of what we call the Bible is direct revelations concerning God, I most certainly can use the Bible to inform my beliefs about God. Your argument is something like:

1. I don't believe the Bible contains revelation from God.
2. Your beliefs about God are wrong because of 1.

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Why isn't Justice part of the classical definition of God? It is the crux of the entire message of redemption (which is what the entire Bible leads up to). No assuming going on: Bible verses about Justice. 

They key I think in understanding this issue is that God is perfectly Holy--not able to tolerate sin in the least.

And, of course, what is described as justice in the bible has little to do with how we use the term.  Just like "love", "good", etc.  So it clarifies nothing.

The bible makes claims that he's a good guy, but then shows his favorite means of trying to solve a problem is by killing people. Which doesn't actually work, given how many people supposedly died, and in the present day we still have a lot of problems.  If his ways are so alien to us, and some christians clai we need a god to fill some vague void in our lives, then we need a different god. This one is defective.