You have to remember who wrote the testaments as well.
The bible is God's words written by man. As we know even the most righteous man is not perfect and may have not written His words correctly, didn't understand, applied His words to the time or possibly used their position to self-promote. Maybe the man who wrote the bit about stoning cheating women to death had a wife cheat on him and was bias? Maybe God ment buy them a bag of weed and wish them luck. Unlikely but I'm just saying the bit was written so many years ago the only way we'll know for sure is the apocalypse or we invent a time machine.
I believe in God, I believe there was a man named Jesus and that he was a child of God just like the rest of us. I believe Jesus was a good man with an overall good message. I don't associate myself with the organized christian religion but really.. kinda what I am.
The bible is God's words written by man. As we know even the most righteous man is not perfect and may have not written His words correctly, didn't understand, applied His words to the time or possibly used their position to self-promote. Maybe the man who wrote the bit about stoning cheating women to death had a wife cheat on him and was bias? Maybe God ment buy them a bag of weed and wish them luck. Unlikely but I'm just saying the bit was written so many years ago the only way we'll know for sure is the apocalypse or we invent a time machine.
I believe in God, I believe there was a man named Jesus and that he was a child of God just like the rest of us. I believe Jesus was a good man with an overall good message. I don't associate myself with the organized christian religion but really.. kinda what I am.
The guys who wrote the Bible were guided by God.
The Bible is called "God's Word." A lot of it is a record. It isn't something that God would condone if He wasn't almost forced into it. The record of the Bible is a recording of many things. Not all of these are of God's approval.
Here's what it is about. The devil invented destruction. But God is using even destruction to further His good goals. Because of this, it sometimes seems like God is doing evil. What God is doing is to use the destruction evil that the devil promotes, to further goodness and righteousness by using destruction to gradually destroy itself without harming goodness.
Doing something like this is so extremely difficult that most good people and Christians can't understand what God is doing. They don't have a clue about how such things could even be done. God is God. He can do it. Just be patient with Him. Trust Him and you will find that He has done it.
