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Author Topic:   God of Death or Love
Logic
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Message 1 of 31 (455842)
02-14-2008 2:50 AM


I'll rephrase the whole topic =) Starting from:
In the New testament God is described as being "loving of all his children", but then again in the old testament he is also displayed as a God of death, this evidence is supplied here ->
According to selected verified extracts from bible itself god has killed about [2,270,365] that is excluding the population of the world during Noah's flood, and other important events that didn't include exact numbers.
This information is obtained from:
http://www.gospeakit.com/science/bible-body-count.html
My question is:
How can you follow a book which contains a God who is displayed as loving in the New Testament yet of war and death in the Old Testament?
{This promoted message 1 was message 5 of the proposed topic of the same name. Maybe it's better than the original message 1, maybe not. - Adminnemooseus}

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Logic
Member (Idle past 5044 days)
Posts: 31
From: Australia
Joined: 02-11-2008


Message 10 of 31 (455951)
02-14-2008 4:29 PM
Reply to: Message 9 by Creationista
02-14-2008 2:40 PM


I'm glad see people took this seriously. I really liked the quote about god being a justice giver; however this has a major flaw.
Did you first check the references provided within the web-link. Because in a lot of cases God just kills for sake of showing his authority, there was no justice to be had it was just a means in which to show his divine power. The difference being a court judge doesn’t sentence someone to death for not following orders . well maybe in early Europe they did however by modern standards they don’t.
Now back to my question; why is god so different between the two testaments. If you look at links provided you can see from the righting itself that god acts in 2 different manners, which to me shows that we have 2 different writers.

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