Jesus said he came for the people of Israel. The people of Israel wanted him gone/dead. Maybe he came to accept that to be his fate though only after one final plea to God for it to be otherwise.
To be fair, Paul was coming from a pre-existing Christian movement, one he says he'd persecuted, presumably for what in Jewish terms were blasphemies.
Yes. Jesus states at the start of his mission that it's a suicide mission and he's going to die eg ─
Mark 2:20 The days will come, when the...
Repetition and unresponsive to the post you are responding to that has already addressed what you are repeating here. We have proven from both post # 235 linked that the scripture context disagrees with your claim that Numbers 5:22 is God commanding abortion. While post # 350 linked proves from...
Is this getting quite embarassing for you since the bible does not condemn abortion and commands the abortions of adulteresses. And Joshua's god even blessed him for butchering all the unborn (Joshua6:21 8:26-27)?
And may the water that brings these curses enter your stomach and make your...
This is classic confirmation bias.
Are you at all familiar with Cognitive Bias?
I find it to be fascinating and often illuminating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias?wprov=sfti1
God is not vengeful or violent
Just read this:
This is a question that participants of The Great Adventure Bible studies frequently ask us, and it’s a tough one to answer. We know that God is all good and all loving. In fact, “God is love” (1 John 4:8). And yet, in the Old Testament, we find...
Read it
It's just wishful thinking and tenuous mental gymnastics
It's not about truth, it's about feeling good and wishful thinking
It's unconvincing and intellectually dishonest appologetics
This picture is what I think about Yahweh, the God of the bible:
Read this. It is a good explanation. God is not evil
This is a question that participants of The Great Adventure Bible studies frequently ask us, and it’s a tough one to answer. We know that God is all good and all loving. In fact, “God is love” (1 John 4:8). And yet, in the Old Testament, we...
Invasive war, massacres of surrendered populations, religious intolerance ─
Deuteronomy 7:1-2 – “When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations...then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them and show them no...
I saw something similar to that a few times..
Take rabies, for example... the outbreak was contained by isolating affected herds and pre-emptively shooting any deer showing symptoms.
The Chinese went berserk. Rabies deaths in China lead to slaughter of 50,000 dogs. I could hear myself. Not my...
Especially when you look at these passages:
16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your...
We know that God is all good and all loving. In fact, “God is love” (1 John 4:8). And yet, in the Old Testament, we find various scenes in which God’s people are called to “destroy” other nations.
These do not sound like the words of a God who “is love.” Troublesome passages like this remind us...
If the God of Abraham is indeed a 'Universal' God, would a 'Universal' God say this: " attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys " - Samuel 15 ?
This...
Then obviously someone lied and either the OT or NT is not trustworthy.
That's very problematic when dealing with apostates like me because we still know those interpretations. It's a very weak attempt to deflect criticism without actually considering it.
As it turns out, we just took our...
We know that God is all good and all loving. In fact, “God is love” (1 John 4:8). And yet, in the Old Testament, we find various scenes in which God’s people are called to “destroy” other nations
Troublesome passages remind us why it is so important to understand how to interpret Scripture “in...
See. It's only a cut and paste to preach hatred. Can cut and paste more. Cut and paste artists only deserve cut and pastes. No response is valid for cut and paste hate preachers.
Abraham, God, and Sodom (Genesis 18-19)
In this story, Abraham is like a defense attorney pleading for clemency on behalf of Sodom (a city with some serious problems, as we learn in Genesis 19). Abraham asks God,
“Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked? … Far be it from you to...
Abraham, God, and Sodom (Genesis 18-19)
In this story, Abraham is like a defense attorney pleading for clemency on behalf of Sodom (a city with some serious problems, as we learn in Genesis 19). Abraham asks God,
“Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked? … Far be it from you to...
That's simply untrue.
When Abraham is told to sacrifice Isaac, he doesn't reply, "Don't be silly." He find his knife.
Exodus 22:29-30 You must give me the firstborn of your sons. Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me...
The explanation from a catholic priest:
We know that God is all good and all loving. In fact, “God is love” (1 John 4:8). And yet, in the Old Testament, we find various scenes in which God’s people are called to “destroy” other nations.
Troublesome passages remind us why it is so important to...