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Not a fan of the Abrahamic 'god'..
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 30275749:MV8yMDkwMDc0XzM1MTg1NDA2XzRENTExRUJE] [quote:Anonymous Coward 570175:MV8yMDkwMDc0X0ExMDEwMUM0] I mean he did all this petty, jealous and vengeful stuff in the old testament.. then to top it off sent his/her/its son to be killed by us. That is not the type of god i want to pray to. Perhaps the snake in the garden was the good guy, trying to warn us about this sick fuck. Im conflicted because the story of Jesus' life and his death is gut wrenching, i love that guy. [/quote] The prevailing Christian theology is embarrassingly ignorant of its God and His nature. Rather than accept the responsibility God put on their shoulders to make the world a better place, they shift the blame to God or the devil when bad things happen. Rather than examining themselves in light of what God has called them to be, they bring God down to their level and dismiss what they don't understand as "an act of God's unknowable will." They say God hurts us because He loves us, which even a child can see makes no sense. What's even worse is they spread this poison as though it were truth, telling others that if they don't accept this schizophrenic version of God, they can quite literally go to hell. This fatalistic apathy stems from an unbiblical doctrine redefining the "sovereignty" of God. The bible states that God "so loved the world" and is "unwilling any should perish." He gave His own authority to believers and charged them with bringing about heaven on earth. Instead, Christians take a passive back seat, watching events unfold according to the will of evil, then crying "the judgement of God" to anyone that will listen. As to the fire and brimstone of the Old Testament, much of that is the product of biased translation (just like the New Testament verses concerning women in the church). The bible as we know it was translated in a time when Hebrew was a dead language, under scrutiny of a king who had final approval of the translation. It would be like handing a highschooler the untranslated epic of Gilgamesh and a pocket guide to ancient Sumerian and expecting an accurate result. With the added incentive of "if I don't like the way it turns out, off with your head." Language is complicated. Multiple meanings and misuse of permissive verbs can change the entire meaning of a passage. When a verse says "God sent (insert calamity)," it usually can be more faithfully rendered as "(calamity) came." Between biased translations and a slavish adherence to a faulty doctrine concerning the "sovereignty" of God, it's no wonder Christians are such an irritating, ineffectual bunch. And no wonder the rest of the world is calling bullshit. [/quote]
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I mean he did all this petty, jealous and vengeful stuff in the old testament.. then to top it off sent his/her/its son to be killed by us.
That is not the type of god i want to pray to. Perhaps the snake in the garden was the good guy, trying to warn us about this sick fuck.
Im conflicted because the story of Jesus' life and his death is gut wrenching, i love that guy.
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