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From: ix415@sdcc6.UUCP (Rick Frey)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: What picture does the Bible paint of God?
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 03:36:55 EDT
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Not to start a whole flurry of discussion, but the damager-God idea has
got alot of people talking about the Bible and the picture it paints of
God.  In a recent article, John Miller states that he too might come to
the same conclusions as Paul Zimmerman from reading the Bible.  I'm
wondering how many other people feel that way and which passages or
stories lead them in this direction.  In a response I've posted to Paul
Zimmerman we started discussing the nature of the Bible and why a
damager-God would allow a book that at least seems to teach means of
reconciliation and peace to be out and popular and in His name.  But the
response that many people seem to be making is that the Bible teaches
something else and the that the overall picture of the Bible is that
God is this damager-God or at lest that He isn't the good God that
Christians and most religions make Him out to be.

So what's the concensus?  I've heard from a lot of people who say the
Bible makes God look bad and I'd like to hear what some of the parts are
that paint this evil picture of God.  

				Rick Frey
				(...!ihnp4!sdcsvax!sdcc6!ix415)

"If God is God then worship Him, but if Baal, then worship him."

"Choose this day whom you will serve, but as for me and my house, we
will serve the Lord."