A Levite and his concubine

[Lek]

If you're going to attribute things to God, read the whole bible and see where it begins and where it ends. You distort things when you take bits and pieces and don't fit them into the whole story.

So, what you're saying is that there's some context that excuses, off the top of my head, genocide?

What i'm saying is that, according to the bible, God is the creator and is allowed to do what he wants to do with his creation. All these terrible things that you attribute to God are attributed to man's sin in the bible. These are consequences of people's sins and it's all just. In the end, God himself, removes our guilt and gives us eternal happiness, free from all this. So yes, we do suffer consequences for our sin. If your father was a gambler and frittered away all the family's money, you would suffer the consequences of that. If you're going to evaluate the God of the bible, take all the bible into consideration before you make a final judgement. You can have your won opinion, but that's not the opinion of the writers. If you don't believe that we're responsible to God for our sins, then you're not interpreting the bible as the writers intended it to be.

Another thing is that I can tell a story about someone doing evil acts without inserting my opinion of whether they were evil or not.