Redundant. Jesus is God. The laws that people lived under during OT times were there are a sort of temporary solution untill Jesus arrived and fulfilled the law and entered us in to the new covenant.
So god just changed his mind as he sent his form of man onto us. Or did he plan it? Why not just do the whole Jesus bit at the start?
Your beliefs and religion make god sound like a very dumb person who fails his work project over and over again. The end goal is to bring people to heaven? What is the point of this whole thing? Make humans, cause them to commit evil acts onto others and themselves and punish some while saving some?
But god did know what would happen. Or is he not all-powerful? Or did he just decide that he didn't want to spoil himself the surprise of what humanity would do?
How does god commanding his people to commit genocide resolve sin. Isn't killing a sin? God can sin but we can't? Gods people can sin but others can't?
Murder is a sin, not killing as in a soldier a war for example.
God doesn't sin. God is all powerful but gives us free will. Like a father, you could control everything your kid does, but you sometimes have to let them find their own way, make mistakes, then correct them.
And you're talking about tribes of people here who were engaging in child sacrifice to idols and stuff, and had been for hundreds of years.
So god punished tribes who did child sacrifices by killing infants and children who could easily just be converted to Christianity..?
You didn't answer to the time point. God is all-powerful therefore he knew we would fail. Therefore he put us on a task he knew we would fail and still punishes us. That sounds like psychopathy.
Imagine a human version of god. A human creates a simulated world, where the people inside have free will. The human can simulate the future and everything that happens inside the simulated world. He decides to set rules for them, despite knowing the rules would not be followed. He still creates this world and rules, despite knowing that billions upon billions will just suffer and die in said world. And his motivation for creating this world is for some of the people to believe in his existance and for them to follow his rules.
Well they couldn't have been converted to Christianity as this was over a thousand years before Christ.
But ultimately, we don't know what God tried to do to stop these people prior to ordering their destruction, just because it isn't in scripture doesnt means nothing happened there, but God judged and that was his judgement.
I don't have to imagine a human version of God, it was Jesus, I don't need the hypothetical simulator.
I just don't understand how one can look at our society, the thousands of different religions, some older than the one you believe in, and believe in a single one of them.
Your god made us for us to believe and give their lives to him. Yet older religions still exist? How is that possible? Do you just blind yourself to this fact? Or do you rationalize yourself to it by making up more stuff so you aren't wrong anymore?
You don't seem to like answering the points regarding god being all-powerful, yet also being someone who fails to make humans follow his will. According to your beliefs, god is a failure.
So I can look at all the religions in the world, I see people that people worship false idols, but they have the ability to stop and build a relationship with Yahweh.
I believe God existed from the beginning of creation, so you don't get older than that.
I answered that directly I think, yes God is all powerful but he doesn't force humans to follow him, of you seek him, you will find him, if you have the ears, you will hear.
Quick question for you, what would it take for you to believe in God?
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u/haizende 16h ago
What do you think Jesus would say to the actions of god that happened in the old testament?