(July 30, 2021 at 3:48 pm)tackattack Wrote: If you're asking has God revealed His entire character as described in the Bible to me, then the answer is no. I only know God by what God reveals to me. He has revealed both good and the bad in me, and I have seen only good in His intent and use of those revelations from my personal perspective. That is fully in line with my definition of God in the Bible.
That argument from personal revelation is not even persuasive to you who is making it because then you would also have to believe in Krishna because according to George Harrison, Krishna revealed himself to him and you don't believe in Krishna.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"