Here's what the Yahweh is like in the Old Testament:
"Here, eat anything you want, but don't eat the delicious, awesome apples that grow on this tree. Hey snake go tell them....whisper...whisper.... You ate an apple?! How dare you! Get out of my sight! Oh, and it's all that woman's fault so treat all women like dirt from now on!
I want you to go kill your son and offer is blood to me, do it or else! Haha, just kidding!
Stop building that tower! I'm going to destroy it! Now I'm going to make you unable to communicate with each other! Haha! No more engineering for you!
I'm going flood the world and kill all of you people. Now you, drunk! Go build a big boat and somehow fit every animal in the world on it. Even the fish. And stop asking me how you are going to feed the carnivores! That's not my problem!
Hey Jacob? Wanna wrestle? I love your big muscles.
2006-08-11 02:34:34 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Don't have sex with animals, your family or your neighbor's wife or I'll kill you! Also, thou shalt not kill.
If you sell your daughter into slavery and her master doesn't like how she performs in bed you have to buy her back. That's the law.
I love talking donkeys, unicorns, giants and dragons!
If anyone tells you to worship any other god, get all of your friends together. Then go to the town where this person lives and kill everyone - men, women, children, even the pets. Then take all of their stuff, make a big pile in the middle of the street and burn it. Then set the entire town on fire. Burn, baby, burn! If you do this, I’ll make your nation great.
Go kill the Aradites, the Amorites, the Bashanites and anyone else I don’t like. Anyone who is one their side I will give a nasty disease to.
Sampson, you’re my hero. Go kill some more people I don’t like.
2006-08-11 02:34:54 · update #1
This is a perfect example of not being able to "rightly divide the Word of Truth" because you have taken bits and pieces of scripture and re-arranged them into an order that suits your purpose.
Scripture tells us that to interpret scripture you require an annointed teacher, and it needs to stand to other annointed teachers and discussion among church elders. Without such a safety net, what you did would happen more.
If you want, you can re-arrange all the words in just about any text to make any statement you want.
What you are doing here is really a bad thing--you are misinterpreting scripture for your own gain. Please stop.
2006-08-11 02:45:21 · answer #1 · answered by Paul McDonald 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The current Christian god is an adapted form of many local ancient gods of the time. Back in Abraham's time, God was more something to be feared and appeased than anything else.
The concept that God loves all is a relatively new one. I think that a people's god reflects their own society. We have a utopian dream of all getting along happily, so right now we assume our god to be a perfect version of ourselves-- peaceful, loving, kind. But in the old days, in a society that is constantly warring against itself and neighboring tribes, a powerful, terrifying god was what they needed. So that's what the people made.
This explanation only works if you're not a believer...
2006-08-11 09:42:10 · answer #2 · answered by Elizabeth L J 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The Old Testament was to keep the chosen people on the right path. What I believe is there are "parables" to teach a certain lesson. For instance.....Abraham kill your son for me, was to show absolute obedience.
I don't believe in god, but I do believe the writings in the bible, the koran, the torah, etc. were passed down from generation to generation for centuries ...first by the spoken word and then in writings to teach people how to live and how not to live.
2006-08-11 09:46:39 · answer #3 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because that's how the ancient men who wrote the Old Testament imagined him to be. You seem all riled up about this. The Bible is not the Word of God. It's the word of ancient men about who they wanted God to be. So after countless retranslations, it's a garbled, imperfect record. full of contradictions, etc. If you spend too much time trying to get it to make sense, it will only upset you further. Imagine if all your intellect and energy were focused on something real and useful in the world!
2006-08-11 09:44:35 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because the goat-herders wandering around in the desert acted like spoiled, bullying children so they invented a god that acted the same way.
2006-08-11 09:46:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because the OT god is more of a tribal god for a tribe of ancient desert nomads than a universally loving being. It's petty, plays favorites, and has a very tender and unpredictable ego.
2006-08-11 09:39:05 · answer #6 · answered by Scott M 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is the same God then that is now, He never changes.
The change came for us through the death of His son, but bear in mind that the death of his son herald in peace as Jesus said that you have heard it said an eye for an eye but I say if someone smite thee turn the other cheek. Jesus came and made a difference but judgement will reveal the punnishment of sin which as always been death.
The God of the OT is still the God that hate sin and will destroy it at the end.
2006-08-11 09:41:42 · answer #7 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
you're so void of understanding I don't even know how to start answering you.. there must be a foundation on which an answer can be built.. but you lack even the most basic of insight.
2006-08-11 09:39:13 · answer #8 · answered by email_2_nat 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because it was written by men who have the same traits as the God they created.
2006-08-11 09:37:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Juanita has the perfect answer.
2006-08-11 09:40:43 · answer #10 · answered by tomleah_06 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋