Why did God promote murder and rape, but now is all about love?

I'm joyful I are living in a nation wherein I might talk the reality approximately faith and no longer be killed! Anwyay thew Bible was once written through consistent residents of the day that was once "recording historical past". If you do not talk the Bible's local language (which is not really transparent but), then you're essentially studying a translation. As a translator/interpreter I can let you know that we've got (however aren't meant to) have an opinion approximately what's being translated and oftentimes don't do as they're meant to, however how they suppose. The Bible has been translated so generally who understand the reality? There have been no ladies that was once competent to give a contribution and everyone knows they performed a significant position in view that there could be no humans with out ladies, however alternatively, the Mary, Jesus, the Three Kings and so forth magical experiences come into play. I was once raised Christian, however as a lover of historical past and linguistics you quickly notice that faith was once placed right here to preserve order however satirically motives the entire chaos arond the globe. Racism, slavery, or even homicide occurred supposedly within the Bible, however we understand it is flawed in these days. Thats simply yet another illustration that anybody that translated will have further and/or deleted matters as they preferred.

Really the ancient world wasn't like today's world.

In the ancient world, people worshiped the baals.

This type of worship required human sacrifice.

If a person sacrificed,-in death- a human today, and nothing was done about it, there would be no end to the public outcry. Yet, Jehovah God did do something about human sacrifice, He ended it, along with those that practiced it.

The women taken captive by the Israelites would be treated much better by the Israelites than the women's former people.

So, the sex wouldn't be like a rape today, The women would have submitted to their new husbands and would be happy women.

In the Greek Scriptures-New Testament-The world was changing, as the Apostle Paul said. Men, Christian men, were now to be husbands of one wife, and were to take only other Christian women as a wife; 1st Corinthians 7:39, 1st Timothy chapter 3, Matthew chapter 19.

P.S. I read a great book about the Comanche Indians-Native Americans. The men in the Comanche tribes treated most women as slaves for survival purposes. The book is titled:

Empire of the Summer moon. It's a great read about early people

Yes if the god in the old testament were in court for killing everyone in a flood, promoting violence and wiping out a village, promoting slavery etc, etc, he would lose custody of HIS kids! Many historians claim the new testament was rewritten to regain followers because many were losing faith in the jewish or to other religions. Jesus was made as "an all loving god who came down to die for our sins" and who wouldn't love that right??

God in the old testament is completely opposite of jesus! He is a jeolous, impatient, vengeful god while Jesus is more of a teacher, helper, friend and forgiver! How can they be so different?

God has never approved of those things, not in the NT or OT. He has always been a righteous, loving God and has "never changed" he says in the Bible. You must read the Bible in its entirety for you to learn his good qualities and personality.

At Isaiah 1:15 God told the Israelites he did not approve of their rebellious acts when he said:

“Even though you make many prayers, I am not listening; with bloodshed your very hands have become filled.”

God did not approve of any of those things.

No where in the Bible did God promote such things.

Where are you getting all this info that He promoted it?

God never changes, He is the same as yesterday, today & forever.

He died on the cross, so we wouldn't perish.

Religions are an expression of partly what's idealized, partly what's seen as necessary in a given culture. if you look at even older cultures, i.e. Mesopotamia, you see artpieces like the Steele of Naram-Sin depicting the eponymous conqueror stepping on his victim's heads, ready to mercilessly kill his opponents as they plead for their lives. That was what was idealized in a ruler of the time: brute strength, free from mercy. It was what people felt could keep a secure and stable empire...so not surprisingly, it's what ancient Mesopotamians felt the gods should be like as well. And the Epic of Gilgamesh echoes this sentiment.

The Greek mythos shows this transition: in the older myths demigods like Theseus, a brutal rapist; or Heracles, who murdered his own family - are idealized. Zeus himself certainly isn't the sweetest deity on Olympus. But by the Homeric period, the deals have shifted somewhat: the ideal hero is now embodied in Odysseus...who, while certainly an able fighter, doesn't have supernatural strength. More often, he uses his wits and intellect, together with superior communication skills. Not surprisingly, this change in ideals roughly coincided with the reinvention of writing and a revitalization of learning among the Greeks.

The Jewish religion at the time most of the Hebrew Scriptures were composed, i.e. during Babylonian exile, seems to have been right about midway in this transition. The monotheistic Hebrew god, Yahweh or 'Jehovah', is depicted as showing compassion...but does encourage many acts that would be considered amoral by today's standards: genocide of the Canaanites, death by stoning for people gathering wood on Sabat or if a woman and her lover are pregnant out of wedlock, etc. Giving those attributes to the supreme being of their culture was in many ways practical for the time: it encouraged solidarity in and justification of military campaigns to expand their power, as well as the atrocities that entailed. They also encouraged their people to continue producing offspring at a time when population growth was essential if your culture was going to have any power in numbers.

This is also an example of justice in its infancy - much like surgeons having their hands cut off for making errors in the code of Babylonian rule Hammurabi. It's just what people thought was right at the time. Even Aristotle, the reigning intellectual monarch of the Classical period and centuries to follow (and by all counts, a pretty decent guy) had sociopolitical views that were akin to modern Naziism; simply put, at the time, people just didn't know any better. The challenges of the time made often brutal practices seem realistic, and belief systems corroborating those promoted consensus.

So, flash forward to the time of Jesus of Nazareth: by this time, ethics were already in the process of a massive departure from old norms. Hellenistic culture was probably the biggest catalyst for this change: Alexander the Great's conquests in India had ushered in an area of great interest in other cultures; very different from the marked ethnocentrism of 'my culture first, kill the rest' that was typical before this time, a more cosmopolitan view began to be regarded as classier. Probably the best embodiment of these new ideals were the Stoics: they were arguably the first group in human history to explicitly state that all human beings were equal. They were also pacifists.

By the first century of the Common Era, Stoic philosophy not only had a major impact on Roman Law and ethics but can also be seen pervading a number of Eastern Mediterranean cultures: in fact, the New Testament verse "He who is least shall be the greatest" was more or less a paraphrase from an earlier Stoic philosopher, as is the phrase "Remember that he who you call slave is also your brother" - which, although never explicitly states in Christian text, seems to be the sentiment of certain Pauline writings i.e. the letter to Philemon. There seems to be a possibility that Buddhist teaching may also have influenced this shift as well: the Kabbalistic Jews followed a monastic system strikingly similar to that of the Buddhist Sangha, and they in turn influenced the Essenes. The Essenes at the very least probably had a massive influence on John the Baptist.

Christian doctrine was largely the result of remarkable teachers like Jesus of Nazareth, John the Baptist, and Paul the Apostle. But in the larger sense, it's also an expression of changes in the culture itself - a culture that was becoming increasingly more cosmopolitan than isolationist, and as population increased and economic prospects improved, also more favorable to compassion than brutality.

god does not promote love, only love to fellow christians

god of the new testies still hates gays and believe in slavery

jeshurun you are delusional.

Don't you just have to love that old time religion. (sarcasm)

maybe god chilled when god had a kid.

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