(January 24, 2023 at 1:37 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: New Testament God is infinitely worse than the Old. In the Old there is no threat of eternal pain. Jehovah had no eternal prison, no everlasting fire. His hatred ended at the grave. His revenge was satisfied when his enemy was dead.
In the New Testament, death is not the end, but the beginning of punishment that has no end. In the New Testament the malice of God is infinite and the hunger of his revenge eternal.
This is pretty much what I was going to post. You beat me to it.
And stating that the NT god is "infinitely worse" than the OT god, is not hyperbole. Infinite punishment for finite crimes, is definitionally, "infinitely worse".
It would be hard to imagine a worse universe to live in, than one where the Bible gods actually existed.
It is a universe, with hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with at least a 100 billion stars, the vast majority of which have planets (5297 at latest count), all 'created' as a giant 'soul filtering machine', just to determine how many souls get to spend eternity with Yahweh.
And all it seems to take to get filtered out, is to doubt said god exists. A thought crime.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
