Current Events > God was VERY wrathful in The Old Testament

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It very much worries Christians and is a stark comparison to the New Testament.

Why is this?

Why does God kill? Why does he punish?

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Two different gods, that fact seems to have been lost over time

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Whenever I click the gamefaqs tab on the frequently visited section on Safari your user page shows up TC. I have no idea why

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Because he was a warrior god who desired to become the only god.

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uwnim posted...

Because he was a warrior god who desired to become the only god.

... are you under the impression that the Hebrews had a pantheon at some point?

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I mean early on he does make a covenant that he wont do that anymore and then tries to use kings and prophets to convince people which fails because the Jews were stubborn. So he becomes man and teaches that there is a new way to practice religion because what is being taught right now is missing the point ...but the Jews were still stubborn.

Life was even more harsh in the Old Testament days than it was in the New Testament. Therefor people came to believe that whoever made it so must be a douchey god.

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SrRd_RacinG posted...

It very much worries Christians and is a stark comparison to the New Testament.

Why is this?

Why does God kill? Why does he punish?

Its not our place to ask why

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Really a hellfire and brimstone kinda bloke, huh?
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David1988 posted...

Whenever I click the gamefaqs tab on the frequently visited section on Safari your user page shows up TC. I have no idea why

I dig that!!

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He was an asshole because he was pissed about humans being assholes because he made them in his image with free will


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Revelations still has some good ones. Be like either hot water, cold water, or GTFO.

"And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." - Revelations 3:14-17

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BignutzisBack posted...

Two different gods, that fact seems to have been lost over time

what its always been jeebus

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vigorm0rtis posted...

... are you under the impression that the Hebrews had a pantheon at some point?

They certainly recognized other gods and their religious texts say they kept worshipping other gods despite being told repeatedly not to.

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Theology on a dying video game message board sure is fun

coh posted...

Theology on a dying video game message board sure is fun

This place ain't going NOWHERE!

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He got laid and finally chilled out
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https://i.imgur.com/otZnXXc.mp4

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https://www.christianpost.com/voices/americas-mayhem-and-massive-decline-in-christianity.html

Only a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic, a groundbreaking poll by Pew Research was published highlighting the shocking pace of decline of Christianity in America.

https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/

The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip.

The data shows a wide gap between older Americans (Baby Boomers and members of the Silent Generation) and Millennials in their levels of religious affiliation and attendance. More than eight-in-ten members of the Silent Generation (those born between 1928 and 1945) describe themselves as Christians (84%), as do three-quarters of Baby Boomers (76%). In stark contrast, only half of Millennials (49%) describe themselves as Christians; four-in-ten are religious nones, and one-in-ten Millennials identify with non-Christian faiths.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thefreethinker/2020/09/good-news-religion-is-fast-going-down-the-tubes-in-america/

One of the worlds leading social scientists Ronald Inglehart, above, of the University of Michigan claims in a book soon to be published that the United States is experiencing a more dramatic shift away from religion than any other nation.

Religions Sudden Decline: Whats Causing It and What Comes Next is to be released in January by Oxford University Press. Writing in Foreign Affairs magazine in an advance summary titled Giving Up on God: The Global Decline of Religion Dr Inglehart said:

Growing numbers of people no longer find religion a necessary source of support and meaning in their lives. Even the United States long cited as proof that an economically advanced society can be strongly religious has now joined other wealthy countries in moving away from religion

Several forces are driving this trend, but the most powerful one is the waning hold of a set of beliefs closely linked to the imperative of maintaining high birthrates. Modern societies have become less religious in part because they no longer need to uphold the kinds of gender and sexual norms that the major world religions have instilled for centuries.

Although some religious conservatives warn that the retreat from faith will lead to a collapse of social cohesion and public morality, the evidence doesnt support this claim. As unexpected as it may seem, countries that are less religious actually tend to be less corrupt and have lower murder rates than more religious ones.

Needless to say, religion itself doesnt encourage corruption and crime. This phenomenon reflects the fact that as societies develop, survival becomes more secure: starvation, once pervasive, becomes uncommon; life expectancy increases; murder and other forms of violence diminish. And as this level of security rises, people tend to become less religious.

The most dramatic shift away from religion has taken place among the American public. From 1981 to 2007, the United States ranked as one of the worlds more religious countries, with religiosity levels changing very little. Since then, the United States has shown the largest move away from religion of any country for which we have data.

Inglehart says that other factors beyond rising levels of economic and technological development help explain the waning of religion.

In the United States, politics accounts for some of the decline. Since the 1990s, the Republican Party has sought to win support by adopting conservative Christian positions on same-sex marriage, abortion, and other cultural issues. But this political appeal to religious voters has had the corollary effect of pushing other voters, especially those who are young and culturally liberal, away from religion

Death isn't a big deal when you're God. You basically just think of killing people as your neighbors moving. "Oh, I see Gary moved to a new house in heaven. Cool."

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vigorm0rtis posted...

... are you under the impression that the Hebrews had a pantheon at some point?

They were an offshoot Canaanite culture that splintered off when their god was tossed out of the Canaanite pantheon. He even used to have a wife named Asherah.

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synth_real posted...

They were an offshoot Canaanite culture that splintered off when their god was tossed out of the Canaanite pantheon. He even used to have a wife named Asherah.

Source?

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Idk why people try the whole "they worshipped multiple gods" angle. All it takes is a quick read to see it has no merit.

Ironically people in biblical times probably had a whole different ideology about the afterlife then today. Didn't the whole fire and brimstone Kane/Undertaker hell stuff start with the Catholic Church

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God was the original Youtube pranker

"haha, you don't really need to kill your son. Now say like and subscribe to my religion!"

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