drac if u think doris is serious with this or any other thread you arent as bright as I initially thought unless it’s a poor attempt at sarcasm. Just some sad drip with nothing better to do
I don’t know if the story is true or not, my initial response was that it probably isn’t.
But insulting my intelligence will get you nowhere.
The God of the OT is a very nasty God. When some kids poke fun at the prophet Elisha as old baldy, Elisha prays to god for vengeance, and God set lions on the teenage tormentors. They died slow.
From the research I have done on this the old testament God is probably the Mesopotamian god of war, Ashur. The two religions originated from the same area of the world, and share a lot of common elements in their myths. The story of Noah in the bible in particular is very similar to the Mesopotamian flood myth, where Ashur places his war bow into the sky as a promise not to punish his human followers again, the same as God does with the rainbow.
It would also explain why God is so violent, if he was originally a god of war. I think the Islamic version of God also fits with this description.
I think that by the time he got to the New Testament, God had had a personality change. maybe he went to an anger management class. Or maybe having a son calmed him down..it does that to a lot of men.
The new testament doesn’t seem to be based on older relgions, and doesn’t contain nearlly as many contradictions as the old testament (although there are some).
It does seem to describe a completely different god though, which is likely based on what I said previously.
Edit:
I don’t believe that any gods are real, I am talking only from the perspective of the bible where we live in a world that has multiple gods that exist in parallel.
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