Message #1054

[Jan]

I cannot understand why some say 'God is love', there is nothing loving about him in the Bible?

Could you explain how someone who is willing to give his life to save millions, if not billions, has nothing loving about him in the Bible - not to mention his choosing a tribe which was insignificant, limited in number, and lived at the extremes of all the empires of the time to do a job for him - and protected them against all-comers, T?

And therin lies the difficulty for those who suggest that the Bible is a consistent whole.  The god who makes **** women marry their rapists, who orders the slaughter of men, women children, old people, babies - all put to the sword, none spared.... The god who tells his servants to 'show no pity' to the woman who has just prevented her husband's murder by grabbing the testicles of her husbands assailant - she must have her hand cut off.... That god is supposed to be the same God who prevents the stoning of a woman caught in adultery.

So yes, in the Bible there is a portrayal of a God who is Love.  But there is also the protrayal of a monster.  The two pictures of God don't mix, they never have, and those who try to talk their way out of that just end up being dishonest about it.

 

evil has indeed been done in Gods name - and will probably continue that way for some time to come (unfortunately)