Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Who Is Worse - The Father Or The Son?

There are many Christians who are embarrassed by the Old Testament and rightly so. It is a vile piece of collection of books. Such a vile angry God and then it contains the driest material every known in literature. All the this "so and so begat so and so" surrounded by truly lame stories.

Marcion was one of the first Christians to attempt to canonize the books of the Christian Bible. He didn't include any books in what we now know as the Old Testament. He was embarrassed by them. They are quite barbaric. But the problem is the authors of the the books now in the New Testament quoted the Old Testament to prove Jesus. So, ultimately they were stuck with keeping it and could not find a good way to demote it to a lesser god.

Christians don't want to think this God of the OT was this same Jesus, but for those who promoted him to God they have to accept that. The Jehovah Witnesses got around it by denying Jesus' divinity. All Christians pick and choose over the rubble of the New Testament for just the "happy" messages. But was Jesus that good? The god of the OT was always going about picking stubborn people who wouldn't listen to him so He could punish the heck out of them. You think this god would be smart but he just hasn't got the brain power to realize what he is doing. Why would an all-powerful & all-knowing god create a stubborn and defective product to only get mad at the product? He should be mad at himself for doing such a crappy job. Anyway, Christians avoid this, don't read the OT and say spend your time reading the NT. It is much better. OT God - bad. NT God - good.

NOT.

Jesus truly is the Son Of God of the Old Testament. The OT god said keep it in your pants, but the NT God said even if you think it you are JUST AS GUILTY. So controlling your behavior is worthless? The Old Testament god punished you in this world. You screw up, you would be harassed, have to endure exile and disease and then die. Not good enough for the NT god. He will torture you infinitely in a new place called hell. Jesus blew it out of the park. He had to go international and set up a special place with the utmost horrors, a protracted war against evil people. I am thinking the Daddy was better than the Son, kind of like a father/son president set we had in our unfortunate recent history.

Here is the NT god's embellishment of a place called hell unlike the OT god's sheol where you just died:

"But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever shall say, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell." (Matthew 5:22)

"And if your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out, and throw it from you; for it is better for you that one of the parts of your body perish, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell." (Matthew 5:29)

"And if your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off, and throw it from you; for it is better for you that one of the parts of your body perish, than for your whole body to go into hell." (Matthew 5:30)

"And do not fear those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matthew 10:28)

"And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than having two eyes, to be cast into the fiery hell." (Matthew 18:9)

"You serpents, you brood of vipers, how shall you escape the sentence of hell?" (Matthew 23:33)

"And if your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire," (Mark 9:43)

"And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than having your two feet, to be cast into hell," (Mark 9:45)

"And if your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes, to be cast into hell," (Mark 9:47)

"But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who after He has killed has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!" (Luke 12:5)

And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. (James 3:6)



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