(October 13, 2021 at 8:36 am)Belacqua Wrote: For classical theology, the idea of God "walking around in" the universe doesn't make any sense. God and the universe do not make two.
In that case, classical theology is distorting God of the Bible because Jacob beat God in a wrestling match in Genesis 32.
Moses spoke to God face to face and even got a peek at God's backsides. And I [God]will take away my hand, and thou [Moses] shalt see my backparts. Exodus 33:23
And the Lord spake to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend. Exodus 33:11
God sitting on his throne:
I [Micaiah] saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. 1 Kings 22:19, 2
Etc.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
