ramblin_ag02 said:
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Does slaughtering millions of people look like Christ? No. So, that tells me there's something else going on beneath the ugly surface that does testify to Christ crucified.
This seems like an early slide into Marcionism. IE, Christ is good and what God really looks like while the violent God of the OT isn't really God and has nothing in common with Christ. To me, the God of the Bible looks like the God that created this world. Life is a struggle, animals live and die by violence every minute, and suffering exists across the world, because God made it that way. The only way to turn God into a pacifist is to attribute the violence and suffering of the natural world and the OT to something other than God.
Yes. God did not create death.
Because God did not make death,
nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living.
For he fashioned all things that they might have being,
and the creatures of the world are wholesome;
There is not a destructive drug among them
nor any domain of Hades on earth,
For righteousness is undying.
It was the wicked who with hands and words invited death,
considered it a friend, and pined for it,
and made a covenant with it,
Because they deserve to be allied with it.
Wisdom 1:13-16
For God created man for incorruption
and made him in the image of his own eternity
but through the devil's envy death entered the world
and those who belong to his party experience it.
Wisdom 2:23-24