DOTR
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And yet the Jews of the OT saw God as loving and caring.
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Where did the name Israel come from?
From Jacob fighting against God via his angel.
Israel means to strive both for and against god.
That Jewish view is exemplified in this link that judges god and finds him guilty.
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DL
Why are you even reading the Bible?
Why are you not reading it?
I keep a bible in the house even though I think this quote quite correct.
“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
Then again, I am a Gnostic Christian and know how to read the filth in it.
Said of Gnostic Christian versus Christian bible reading practices.
“Both read the Bible day and night; but you read black where I read white.” ---- William Blake.
I would take this further and advise you to read any scriptures from as many POV as is within you. Question everything including yourself.
The bible, if read as a book of wisdom, does have much wisdom though.
You just have to read it the way Gnostics do and reverse a lot of the Christian morals.
Christians call evil good while Gnostic Christians call evil, evil.
IE. Gnostic Christians think that bible God, the demiurge to us, is quite immoral for thinking that torturing King David's baby for 6 days before finally killing it is good justice. Gnostic Christians think that evil while Christians think that a good form of justice.
Which group do you think is right?
Did I just ask you to think? What in hell was I thinking of in asking the impossible from you.
Regards
DL
Can you provide a link for your Gnostic Christian views?
There are *only* links. Gnosticism is a chat room religion. Like Wicca.