“If we were to progress through all the ‘bad God’ episodes in the Scripture then we would discover a god who appears to order or countenance all manner of Ethnocide, genocide, war, infanticide, murder, rape and onward.”
The “elephant in the room”: a “bad god.”
Or you might to walk with Brother Francis-Clare who writes with the clarity and humour of confidence there is no “bad god” and here is why.
Personally I find these posts valuable. Because they are not of the teaching I had as a young (or old) churchgoer.
Thank you –
Paul
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Before we pop inside,let’s look back as to why we are in here – did God really do this?
Attribution Carl D’Agostino https://carldagostino.wordpress.com/
This is the continuation of those hard things we find in the bible, again part of a myth a very powerful story. How can we believe that Our Heavenly Father who declared all things good is about to annihilate all living things by suffocation and drowning. ( See Rashi commentary at Noes Ark 1 – the herald angels the previous post.
If we were to progress through all the ‘bad God’ episodes in the Scripture then we would discover a god who appears to order or countenance all manner of Ethnocide, genocide, war, infanticide, murder, rape and onward. That is the reason behind the references to “Stories’ here, they were written for reasons mostly having nothing to do with God but humans, Historians and Priests, justifying the…
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