RE: Made in God’s image. Yuk. Not me thanks.
July 22, 2020 at 5:40 pm
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2020 at 5:45 pm by Greatest I am.)
(July 22, 2020 at 5:13 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(July 22, 2020 at 1:32 pm)Greatest I am Wrote: He is described as
If all Christians were sola scriptura literalists, this would be troubling. Fortunately that type of reading is fairly new, so there is a long tradition of dealing with the criticisms you make here.
Have you looked in to what Christians say about the violence described in the OT? There are various responses.
Offhand I recall two:
Augustine bases his belief on New Testament and Platonic principles, and so concludes that God is love and would be incapable of the violence you describe. For this reason, his hermeneutic for reading the OT is that any story that appears to be unloving is allegory -- defeat of enemies is converted to spiritual warfare against sin.
This may not be what the original authors of the OT had in mind, but it shows that important Christians reject the violence that you focus on.
Perhaps most interestingly, British antinomian groups decided that Jesus is the real God, and the God described in the OT is really Satan. They agreed with you that a God of violence and prescribed morality would be evil.
Fortunately, Christianity is not monolithic, and large parts of it reject the violence described in the OT.
There are many variations of Christianity, for sure, but most believe in Jesus and scriptures say he will use genocide against all who do not bow to his governance when he returns.
They may want to have us think there is a new covenant, but it too begins with the murder of all detractors.
Christianity is a fascist regime and no opposition is allowed to live at some point in time.
Jesus makes a better candidate for a god, but if you look at his no divorce for women and substitutional punishment policies, you and all moral people would reject him.
Regards
DL
(July 22, 2020 at 5:14 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: If we were made in god's image we'd either be invisible and non corporeal or we wouldn't exist.
No corporeal sperm means that the virgin birth is a lie.
I do not describe god as invisible and non-corporeal because god to me is nature and all that is. I do have a small non-corporeal part to my definition of god. I also say that god is the best rules and life to live by.
Regards
DL
