Horrible things in the bible

[genkaus]

I'm not pulling and bait and switch. I was responding to remarks about christians. I still maintain that our view of all this stuff that has been brought out about God's actions is based on different perspectives. God created all of us with the purpose of being with him for eternity. This world is all messed up and we all die one way or another. If God would reach down and burn up all these ISIS guys who are causing atrocities would you complain? No matter how we die, anyone who seeks after God will spend eternity with him. That's what we live for. I'm sorry that you don't like what he's done over time, but he's the creator and he can deal with his creation as he chooses. He sacrificed his son to atone for the sins of all of us because he loves us all. He made it possible for everyone to have eternal life with him--even those he violently wiped out. Since the sin of Adam, the world is not a nice place, but he's going to take us out of it. I'm not going to claim to be a christian and then pretend that the old testament doesn't exist. You've chosen not to believe in him, and that's your prerogative, but if I claim to be a christian, I must accept the God of the old testament as well as the God of the new testament. We must take God as a whole. That's just the way it is. Those were the actions of a loving and just God who wants all to be saved. People are quick to blame God, but won't take any blame upon themselves. Actions have major consequences with God, but the reward is great. You all need also need to read the new testament and view the whole story and then make your judgments.

What a disgusting pile of filth.

Actually, this is an accurate representation of your god's self-aggrandizing and corrupt morality. He wants everyone to spend eternity with him, but instead of simply giving it to them, he puts in arbitrary and ridiculous conditions upon it. And when he figures out how ridiculous those rules are, instead of changing them, he pulls a loophole out of his ass that makes no logical sense at all - but hey, whatever works for him.

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My other thought was that we, as christians, accept God as perfectly loving and just.

That's the trick to it, isn't it? Presuppose your god as loving and just - then redefine love and justice since clearly, the old definitions don't fit him.