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Those are pretty strong thoughts.
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Yeah. I went through a very dark time years back. I never lost the belief that God existed, but for a long time I didn't think he was good. And I didn't know how to deal with that. And then I thought of that verse in Colossians that talks about Jesus being the Image of the invisible God. And I thought of Jesus being the ultimate revelation of God. So when I had "God is horrible/mean/capricious/cruel/arbitrary" thoughts, I would filter those through the words and actions of Jesus. And things attributed to God that seemed to not match Jesus' Character. Well, I kind of filed them off to the side.
Those actions that I mentioned that happened in the OT, they just seem completely out of character for Jesus.
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Paul wrote that about male/female, etc. But there are those that discount whatever Paul taught.
Do you have difficulty believing God called a group of people to reveal himself through in the Old Testament? That he gave them a land that others were living in and that many of those people were killed?
Might I ask how you do decide how God is, since you disbelieve accounts in the Old Testament?
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You are right, it was Paul saying it, but I think Jesus showed it by his actions, with the Samaritan woman, the woman with the issue of blood, the Centurion, etc.
I don't necessarily have problems believing that God called a group of people and set them apart. I don't have a problem believing that he gave them a land all for their own. I don't have a problem believing that
they killed to get that land. But I do find it hard to believe that it was God that commanded it.
I read an article by Greg Boyd years back, that was the closest anyone ever came to giving an acceptable ex plantation. I tried to find it, and couldn't, but I found this one and found it very interesting:
http://reknew.org/2009/07/jesus-repu...nt-violence-2/
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