(November 21, 2019 at 8:00 pm)Grandizer Wrote: When I was a kid (around 12) I read the whole KJV Bible cover to cover. Actually I had stolen it from my aunt, lol. I was rather disturbed by the cruelty displayed by God in the Bible and remember feeling betrayed at the time. I was taught that God was love and yet here I was reading accounts of God ordering the execution of children. Reading Achan's story in Joshua was really traumatizing as a kid.
Did thinking that God was cruel become a catalyst for no longer believing in him? Or did your perspective on him change while you continued to believe?