tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post1676289289477199539..comments2024-03-12T11:58:24.510+13:00Comments on Otagosh: Yahweh of Armies? No, he's just misunderstood!Gavin Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17965552923012880262noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-84785889227202540132014-07-05T12:00:24.040+12:002014-07-05T12:00:24.040+12:00Dear Gavin,
I guess I'm technically challenged...Dear Gavin,<br />I guess I'm technically challenged - thought I'd posted my comments a couple of days ago. Anyway, I wanted to say thank you for making me aware of the Jacob Wright class at Emory University. I have thoroughly enjoyed it and have gained new insights and perspectives on the Bible and the people who wrote it. Too bad that most Fundamentalists have cut themselves off from such knowledge and information!<br />With regard to your comments about the Erik Jones article, I feel that he deserves more credit for pointing out the inconsistency between Christian behavior and Christ's teaching on this subject. Nevertheless, I have to agree with you that the YHWH of the Old Testament is often described in very martial terms. There is clearly a contradiction between Christ's teachings and the often homicidal and genocidal Divinity depicted in those writings. (The blinders are definitely on in the "Why violence in the OT?" insert).<br />I think that this is to be expected, however, from anyone who continues to hold to the old Armstrong axiom about Scripture: "If you can't believe all of it, you can't believe any of it." I think it is very unfortunate that Fundamentalists and Atheists take this view of the Bible. As someone who believes in God and professes to be a Christian, it is counterintuitive for me to believe that the Bible is entirely Divine or human in origin. Why can't it be both? (I think that there is a lot of good evidence to suppose it is some of both) Humans have always tried to remake God in their own image. As a consequence, a great many things have been attributed to God that don't belong to God (like murder, war and genocide). And, as I've pointed out before, Jesus Christ was apparently not afraid to contradict the old stuff (i.e. Moses' teaching on divorce).<br />Even so, I think that Mr. Jones deserves some praise for pointing out the discrepancies in "Christian" behavior and for attempting to say (albeit imperfectly) that God is not a homicidal maniac.Miller Jones/Lonnie C Hendrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02865316200703641028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-21737660676195176592014-07-03T10:32:15.296+12:002014-07-03T10:32:15.296+12:00Beware Corky, these days most of those on the Inte...Beware Corky, these days most of those on the Internet have little use for brilliant satire. On Yahoo, you'd get 2 thumbs up and 359 thumbs down. Well, I say two thumbs up, but there's no guarantee that anyone besides me would give you the thumbs up. Irony is so underrated and the sense of humor is gone too. I would suppose that it's a result of people being lied to so much... especially by religion (but there's government and corporations too and don't forget the scientific community [funded by the corporations] and academia). The other problem is all those people with factless opinions who think just because they believe something is true, it IS true.<br /><br />The Internet continues to lower the I.Q.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52912413020249030.post-53494424355348489212014-07-03T05:20:37.152+12:002014-07-03T05:20:37.152+12:00Erik has it all wrong...the "God" of the...Erik has it all wrong...the "God" of the OT was the devil that Jesus was talking about in John 8:44 - Yahweh, the creator of the Jews. The "God" of the OT was the devil that tempted "Christ" in the wilderness with ownership of the earth because, according to the OT, that's who owns the earth. Or, as Marcion called him, the "demiurge", to whom the actual "God" of Genesis 1 left in charge of the world. This "demiurge", not being satisfied with the real God's original creation, planted a garden in Mesopotamia and created the Semite race to take care it.<br /><br />So, just blame it all on the demiurge (the father of the Jews) instead of the real God (the father of Jesus) and there you are - the gentiles were innocent victims and the Jews will suffer for their being deceived by the demiurge into committing genocide and murdering the son of God.<br /><br />That's my story and I'm...uh...sticking to it...Corkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15894537940881776504noreply@blogger.com