RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 24, 2015 at 10:11 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2015 at 10:12 pm by Metis.)
rexbeccarox
Metis
Interestingly it's actually rather simple to create a case from the NT to suggest the Christian God is against rape, the concept of successive override (NT overrules OT) isn't alien to Christians after all.
The choice to retain focus upon the OT instead of diverting it to later Pauline prohibitions as the director of morality was a poor one. Although that itself is hardly pro-woman with all the commands to veil and not teach men it's a damn sight better than the OT.
I'd totally agree with you if it weren't the same god.
Oh some Christians have gotten around that, the coming of Jesus supposedly "humanized" (there's a greek word for this I don't know how to translate, humanized is the best I can do) the trinity and gave it a level of empathy and mercy it never previously practiced. God the Father (OT God) is pure wrath, whereas Jesus (NT God) is compassion and is the new "main face". Some like to fluff it up a bit more with the Virgin Mary being a loving mother holding back the divine wrath of God the Father.
It's really not hard for most of them to get around, Catholics have nailed themselves in a bit more though.
Metis
Interestingly it's actually rather simple to create a case from the NT to suggest the Christian God is against rape, the concept of successive override (NT overrules OT) isn't alien to Christians after all.
The choice to retain focus upon the OT instead of diverting it to later Pauline prohibitions as the director of morality was a poor one. Although that itself is hardly pro-woman with all the commands to veil and not teach men it's a damn sight better than the OT.
I'd totally agree with you if it weren't the same god.
Oh some Christians have gotten around that, the coming of Jesus supposedly "humanized" (there's a greek word for this I don't know how to translate, humanized is the best I can do) the trinity and gave it a level of empathy and mercy it never previously practiced. God the Father (OT God) is pure wrath, whereas Jesus (NT God) is compassion and is the new "main face". Some like to fluff it up a bit more with the Virgin Mary being a loving mother holding back the divine wrath of God the Father.
It's really not hard for most of them to get around, Catholics have nailed themselves in a bit more though.
