Oh I know the scriptures, read the Bible cover to cover multiple times both for church and college.
Basically all you’re saying is that you want to dance around the subject and use purely the cherry picked sections while ignoring total context, something most Christians do when their entire worldview comes from the selected stories covered on Sundays.
Jesus Christ’s doctrines, which underscore affection, empathy, and mercy.
This completely ignores that Jesus was preaching for people to follow the god of the Old Testament. The one who drowns people, kills children because of their nationality and takes child sacrifice to strengthen an army. Jesus made no point of apologizing and refuting past dictates for Yahweh, but instead reaffirmed things like owning others as property, finding other cultures and women as lesser beings.
Furthermore, using terms such as “genocide” for these ancient narratives is historically incongruous
17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
– Num 31:17-18
What better word would you use instead of genocide? This is the dictate of the god you worship, he knows if you’re lying or being untruthful remember.
This Tradition involves an ongoing process of interpretation and discernment, aiming for an understanding of the Scriptures filled with divine wisdom, rather than a mere literal interpretation.
Not sure how you can do this when you flat out ignore the fact it plainly states God demanding evil acts. What was the “metaphor” of killing men, women and children trying to represent? What was the specifics for sex slaves trying to show that couldn’t be said any other way than “take sex slaves as spoils of war?” And why didn’t Jesus come and explain this better, instead telling slaves to obey their masters and that any non believers will die by the sword?
Oh I know the scriptures, read the Bible cover to cover multiple times both for church and college.
Basically all you’re saying is that you want to dance around the subject and use purely the cherry picked sections while ignoring total context, something most Christians do when their entire worldview comes from the selected stories covered on Sundays.
This completely ignores that Jesus was preaching for people to follow the god of the Old Testament. The one who drowns people, kills children because of their nationality and takes child sacrifice to strengthen an army. Jesus made no point of apologizing and refuting past dictates for Yahweh, but instead reaffirmed things like owning others as property, finding other cultures and women as lesser beings.
17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
– Num 31:17-18
What better word would you use instead of genocide? This is the dictate of the god you worship, he knows if you’re lying or being untruthful remember.
Not sure how you can do this when you flat out ignore the fact it plainly states God demanding evil acts. What was the “metaphor” of killing men, women and children trying to represent? What was the specifics for sex slaves trying to show that couldn’t be said any other way than “take sex slaves as spoils of war?” And why didn’t Jesus come and explain this better, instead telling slaves to obey their masters and that any non believers will die by the sword?