Distruzio wrote:Crystalcliff Point wrote:If you read the old testament, YHWH communicated with his followers on a frequent basis. Did you know that Moses slaughtered people?
I'm familiar. I never claimed to be Jewish and I made it explicitly clear that I'm no bibliolator. So while I may hold a fond reverence of the OT, I make no excuses for its contents beyond historical and cultural contexts and likely exaggerations following thousands of years of oral tradition finally being written down. I'm a Christian. My faith is defined in the NT and via Church doctrines.
I do know that following the slaughter, Moses reminds God of His covenant with the Jews to forgive, should He choose, sins of transgressions against Him with a blood sacrifice. Hence the slaughter. To which God responds with forgiveness and a promise to deliver His people from that covenant. I, of course, speak from Orthodox tradition which dictates that the Angel of deliverance promised by God was Jesus prefigured who would render blood sacrifices unnecessary.
Again, I'm not making excuses. I'm merely saying that our interpretation of morality is not applicable to God.
Ill get to it soon enough. As I said, I post via mobile phone. It'll take a moment.
The message of the Old testament stories are what Judeo-Christian laws are not the stories themselves, whatever the message was and how relevant it is to your religion, God was still a rapist and a mass-murder. You can dismiss the laws but you can't dismiss the stories.
