06-22-2020, 07:04 PM
(06-21-2020, 08:53 PM)Benton Wrote: Oh if you're talking bigger picture, He did. The NT boils down to one thing: love each other. It took less than a paragraph. The rest of it was how to accomplish that in the society at the time so that going forward they could accomplish one command.
Why didn't God just say that in the Old Testament, instead of all the unadulterated instruction for killing, raping, pillaging, taking prisoners, enslaving people, etc? How and why did Warlord God become Hippie God? Was is it a necessary re-write, to rehabilitate his image? Was he simply drunk with power and ambition in the OT and realized that peace, love and harmony was a superior brand of messaging? Did he simply mature and mellow out with age, filled with regret and embarrassment over his past transgressions?
I'm being a tad sarcastic of course, but I find the extremely bi-polar and incompetent nature of this deity to be rather entertaining from a purely literary aspect. It's rather frightening in another sense, in that people actually believe these things and incorporate such ideology into their lives and thinking processes.
