(August 31, 2014 at 11:26 am)Drich Wrote:(August 31, 2014 at 11:20 am)Tobie Wrote: It's still the same god, same theology, same people. The god depicted in the bible is willing to destroy all humans because he regretted making us. I don't recall anything in the NT saying "ignore all the bits of the OT where god wants to kill all of us, or when he slaughters innocents".
I guess your not familiar with the message of the gospels then?
You know the bit where is says:" fore God so loved the world that He gave his only son, that who so ever shall believe in Him, shall not perish but have ever lasting life?"
That one verse creates a new paradigm therefore a completely new religion. What links us to the destruction of the OT is in the word parish. To perish is to feel the wrath of God if belief in His son is not secured. To which I have no issue with that. Because simply put i do not want to spend eternity with everyone who has ever lived. Some of people simply need to 'perish.'
Even if you are correct in this point of your theology, this is still a god who only decides to be a bit nicer after he unnecessarily gets his son killed.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R Tolkien
