(November 27, 2021 at 11:07 pm)brewer Wrote:(November 27, 2021 at 10:05 pm)ergo Wrote: Do you know the god of the old testament murdered humans? Do you know what love is? Would you consider god murdering humans an act of love?
Did the old testament god actually murder?
I think that can be taken as a 'yes'.
According to the Book Of Genesis, YHWH wiped out the entire human race except for Noah and his family. That's genocide in my book, so 'murder' is an understatement.
YHWH of The Torah was a monster. Jealous, petty, vindictive and genocidal. This was a small tribal god, and limited in so many ways.
YHWH became king of the universe and the one creator God only after the putative Exodus. The people who became the Jews became monotheists at that time, at least officially.
As Judaism evolved, so did its god. Eventually YHWH became the only, creator god, Lord of the universe. He was ascribed infinite attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresent.
It's my opinion, that to such a being we would be less than ants. We would be incapable of pleasing or offending such a being.
