Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dicomed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!dicomed!katy From: katy@dicomed.UUCP (Kathleen Cornelson) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: The horrifying Old Testament Message-ID: <627@dicomed.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 14:59:07 EDT Article-I.D.: dicomed.627 Posted: Wed Oct 2 14:59:07 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 03:13:14 EDT Organization: DICOMED Corp., Minneapolis Lines: 22 I was raised in a Christian home and truly believed in a loving, holy and good God. As I grew older my beliefs led me to read the Bible, that I might "meditate on the word". As I read the Old Testament I became more and more horrified. The many violent and cruel acts which God demanded of his chosen people seem so inconsistent with the gentle God I had been taught to believe in. The "damager god" discussion so far has been a debate between Christians and non. But I would like to open this discussion strictly between believing Christians. How do you other Christians deal with this. I don't really want to give up the religion I grew up with, the God that I truly believe in, but is the good and loving God that I believe in the same one that they talk about in the Old Testament? I don't think I like that God. To quote my former roomate Faith: "Maybe my parents should have named me Doubt!" :