RE: Benevolent Creator God?
October 6, 2021 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2021 at 12:38 pm by pocaracas.)
"Biblical Christians" seems to consider only the New Testament as The Bible.
The Old Testament, which was mostly written in the period of 850 to 167 BCE, or 500ish years prior to the New Testament, so it's no longer that much older, portrays a god which has been better summarized by Dawkins:
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
The question then becomes, does the Christian consider the god of the Old Testament to be the same as the god of the New Testament?
If yes, then all these features carry over.
If not, then maybe they should stop calling their holy book The Bible, and refer to it only as the New Testament, or something like that.
According to the book, it was God who requested it.
The Old Testament, which was mostly written in the period of 850 to 167 BCE, or 500ish years prior to the New Testament, so it's no longer that much older, portrays a god which has been better summarized by Dawkins:
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
The question then becomes, does the Christian consider the god of the Old Testament to be the same as the god of the New Testament?
If yes, then all these features carry over.
If not, then maybe they should stop calling their holy book The Bible, and refer to it only as the New Testament, or something like that.
(October 6, 2021 at 12:30 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(October 6, 2021 at 11:59 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: So killing every man, woman, child, infant, unborn, animal, plant, fish, amoeba etc. is a good thing to you?I fail to see how the (bold) things are bad. And as for human sacrifice, it was humans doing that shit, not God.
How about human sacrifice? All good? Because bible god demands it?
According to the book, it was God who requested it.
