(November 5, 2021 at 2:26 pm)T.J. Wrote: Funny story, I once read a live application bible that made the claim God created us because he loves us. First time I heard that as an answer to the reason of our existence, but I found it interesting.
It is funny because when you read the Bible you see that God feels nothing but hate towards humans, like "The lord regretted that he had made human beings on earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the lord said, 'I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created- and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground-for I regret that I have made them.'"
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"
