Or you could say that the people who made up the religion realized you have a hard time converting people to worship a vengeful and terrifying "god" so you just rewrite the whole book to accommodate your pledge drive.

People who harp on about “that was the old testiment” are by FAR the worst types of Bible bashers. You can't pick and choose what parts of religion you want to take forward to feebly reinforce your statements

Is that why so many Christians cherry-pick the bible to reinforce what they believe, to support their hatred, much of it coming from the old testament?

They sure love pulling from the OT when it suits their narrative though

Supposedly god still did it. Once a child murder, always a child murderer.

Yet, according to the new testament Jesus said, "Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them." (Matthew 5:17 RSV) In other words, he enforced and endorsed the writings of the old testament.

But if you don't pay attention to the old testament, you can't hate on gay people! /S

God doesn't have a son, Jesus is God, remember the trinity concept, otherwise Christians would have more than one god.

It is a waste of energy, time and intelligence to justify bible. Outdated book.

God exists outside of space and time. The before Jesus, after Jesus, cop out doesn't hold water. God knows how everything will turn out, thus he knew original sin would exist before Eden was created, the forbidden fruit existed, and man fell from grace. I grew up with this horseshit. We need to stop dignifying gross superstition. That's all religion is. I refuse to believe in/dignify a "loving" God who by default condemns all of us to eternal misery. To avoid hell, we need to deviate from the norm (find and accept Jesus) not simply abide by it. God and all he brings to the table is literally the most morally abhorrent, vile concept ever conceived.

Well, Jesus' mission from God was to get himself killed, too, so that old tendency was still there.

You could say that, but it would be incredibly poor theology.

Or, you could say that the followers of his son forgot that all that Old Testament stuff *was nothing to do with what Jesus said/did*, and so are not even following the son but are really good ancient Jews, what with being so fond of Leviticus and all.

In Matthew, when Herod is about to massacre infant children in Bethlehem, God warns Mary and Joseph to get out of Dodge, but lets all the other children get killed. Thanks, God.

Christians claim God is the same yesterday, as he is today as he will be to come. No thanks...I take a hard pass at any 'organized religion'. It's how good people swallow the bad things that happen to them.

That would mean "God" isn't infallible.

I MUCH prefer Lewis Black's take on old vs new testament.

But God had his son killed too 🤔

uh, so he let all those children die when Herod was looking for Baby Jesus,

So...he screwed up the first time? Hmmm

They changed their tune when fearmongering didn'T work anymore

Lewis Black.

True, he waited til he was an adult before letting him be murdered.

Not quite since God sent Jesus, his son, to die for us. Wasn't fair to kill other people kids but not your own.

Actually, Jesus said to uphold the covenant with his people. Jesus was chill but his dad was an a**hole

And what , pray-tell did Jesus say about abortion ? Because they knew-even then- what it was .

Time to send the second part of the Book to the USA...

And Jesus outright said that nothing from the old testament passed away, that it was still relevant.

meh....

Because God had to go through the human experience himself. Jesus was God. Just as the holy spirit is God. (The holy trinity) That would change anyone I suppose. That is why christianity differs from the other versions of the religion.

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Beautifully said my brother

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Yeah. All that was before God was a father. Eventually, God said "hey humans! I had a kid, and look how he turned out. Pretty cool. A lot of you really dig him. Try it out." 🤣

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Wow, I’m not usually one to root for religion but you crushed this.

For the better part of 120 years, Noah warned the people about the coming flood. Yet they mocked Noah constantly. For four generations; think about it. God even gave them another seven days to repent. Had even one family done so, God would have given them instructions to build their own ark. Once the door of the ark was sealed, so was the fate of the mockers. They chose their own demise, thus condemning not only themselves, but their bloodline as well. Not unlike Sodom and Gomorrah.