How to Be Unlikeable

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[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

yhwh regrets making man and displays profound levels of ignorance in creating everything.

God made everything perfect. But for the sake of giving the created beings the highest bliss and perfection, he gave them free will. Those that turned against God and followed his adversary became evil, the opposite of God. But God in no wise created evil.

Before the great flood, God saw that the wickedness in man's heart was continually evil, as it is again today. He was sorry to see what he created turn against him.

The true God doesn't condemn or judge us to hell. God is a God of pure unconditional love. Love doesn't judge, but your Bible God does.

But isn't that what God said through Jesus, as recorded in the Bible?

"And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world." John 12:47 KJV

"Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man." John 8:15 KJV

God does not send people to hell, and God also does not force people to go to heaven. But some reject God and fall away from him into the abyss. There are few that find the path that leads to life.

I invite you to try again and find a fault with the word that Jesus spoke, which is the word of God, since so far you have come up empty handed.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This response of yours is the standard Christian excuse making for YHWH. You should read up on gnostic thought and also look into Marcion - he had the first Bible and didn't think YHWH was the father of Jesus.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

^(Shhh, the masses aren't supposed to find out about that stuff)

I think Marcion simply misunderstood the Old Testament, which I can't really blame him for seeing as it's almost entirely cryptic. Very few people get it, and no one understands all of it. It didn't help that Polycarp or whoever did it reacted to ideas like his by writing fake letters from the disciples condemning them. The Catholic church seems to have thought it had total authority. I think it might have been a Roman plot to subvert Christianity.

These days even thinking heaven will be a spiritual rather than fleshly existence is enough to get you called gnostic. The mainstream is really going hardcore worldly.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I disagree, there's nothing mysterious about YHWH's bloodthirsty tantrums.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

First of all half of it's forgery, second the Jews conflated every God they knew of. They became so hyperfocused on the issue of idolatry that they merged every pagan god with the true one.

Now when something is cryptic, it tends to not be an accurate portrayal of reality. It's code for something else, so the rulers can't understand it. The exodus probably never happened, but an exodus from the matrix sure will. I'm serious, "Pharaoh" is a completely obvious representation of the demiurge once you make the connection. There's the Eden tale which is clearly a warning to avoid law and judgement. There are lots of examples. I know Paul definitely saw the Bible that way, based on Galatians 4. Some of the tales are indeed very shocking, but remember that sort of thing was commonplace in the author's time.