Dear God,
Reading the early books of the bible is like reading a story written for kids. Surely the story was simplified for the people of Israel to understand, for Moses, who wrote it, to understand.
The lightning-quick 6 days of creation must have 6 millennia for us; the tower at Babel...I don't even know. Genesis is a series of stories written in an overly simple manner, and it often doesn't have a moral. What does the story of the Tower of Babel tell us? People mustn't be unified or they will plot bad things (that seems to be coming true....and it also explains are emphatic hatred of communism). The book seems to be explaining things that just are...like "why do people talk different languages?," or "what is the story behind the rainbow?" instead of teaching us, and instructing us through the wisdom of the ages.
People who attack Christianity, they only find faults in this section...They obviously don't get that You told Moses the simplified version :/ that must be it.
It's just that the Old Testament is so different from the New Testament. The God of the Old Testament is fierce, he's scary. He's the gruff, but protective, father-type. While God in the New Testament is God The Father, the one we run to when we're in trouble, the one who pats are heads as we cry into his shoulder, the one who is undeniably (undeniably...I say it twice because I know. I just know) personified by Professor Dumbledore.
I've always questioned that...why did You have a sudden change of heart? But then I realized that You didn't have a change of heart, we did. People started to respect those who ruled with love better than those who ruled with fear. People started to withdraw from You, and You decided to show Your real self.
The Old Testament is a bit of a mess that I can't quite understand. Besides telling us an underestimating story, it does nothing.
I hope You'll help me figure it out.
Cheers.
Reading the early books of the bible is like reading a story written for kids. Surely the story was simplified for the people of Israel to understand, for Moses, who wrote it, to understand.
The lightning-quick 6 days of creation must have 6 millennia for us; the tower at Babel...I don't even know. Genesis is a series of stories written in an overly simple manner, and it often doesn't have a moral. What does the story of the Tower of Babel tell us? People mustn't be unified or they will plot bad things (that seems to be coming true....and it also explains are emphatic hatred of communism). The book seems to be explaining things that just are...like "why do people talk different languages?," or "what is the story behind the rainbow?" instead of teaching us, and instructing us through the wisdom of the ages.
People who attack Christianity, they only find faults in this section...They obviously don't get that You told Moses the simplified version :/ that must be it.
It's just that the Old Testament is so different from the New Testament. The God of the Old Testament is fierce, he's scary. He's the gruff, but protective, father-type. While God in the New Testament is God The Father, the one we run to when we're in trouble, the one who pats are heads as we cry into his shoulder, the one who is undeniably (undeniably...I say it twice because I know. I just know) personified by Professor Dumbledore.
I've always questioned that...why did You have a sudden change of heart? But then I realized that You didn't have a change of heart, we did. People started to respect those who ruled with love better than those who ruled with fear. People started to withdraw from You, and You decided to show Your real self.
The Old Testament is a bit of a mess that I can't quite understand. Besides telling us an underestimating story, it does nothing.
I hope You'll help me figure it out.
Cheers.
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