RE: Old testament and new testament
January 29, 2014 at 5:38 pm
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2014 at 5:38 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 29, 2014 at 3:33 am)yoshirama Wrote: Okay so the old testament paints god as this horrible superbeing and the new one paints him as a slightly less horrible superbeing. I am confused who wrote the new testament? and decide to change things?. Did god supposly tell them to write it or did they thing the original old testament was wrong?
I have always been confused about this.
The god in the NT invented eternal punishment for finite thought crimes.
Doesn't sound like such an improvement to his behavior in the OT to me.
The only good thing about him, in either book, is his continued nonexistence.
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.
