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I think that Christians can't really tell you what Christianity is about in context of the bible. Really so much of modern Christianity is to focus on the gospel of Jesus and use that to convert new believers into the word and pretty much ignore the fact that there is a strong sense of intolerance by God as he is represented in the Old Testament that runs contrary to the type of religious tolerance we try to preserve as a pluralistic American community. Like honestly, it's ****ed up to go to a homosexual and say that they're shunned because they like to bong guys/gals as guys/gals. But really if you even bother to skim through the Old Testament, you basically have a God that not only burns his enemies downs and basically manipulate them into slice & dicing themselves with swords, but has no real attachment to people who he acknowledges as being devout loyal or are his own 'chosen' people. You would think that something as big as the parting of the Red Sea and massive genocide on both parties would have some significant historical remainders in Egyptian culture that would leave us with some sentiment other than a big 'maybe.'
I mean I know you guys are discussing the whole Calvinist shebang with 'supralapsarianism' v. 'infralapsarianism' but really if you want to look at something in retrospect from a transcendental perspective, why did God put his chosen people into slavery. Only to decide to bust them out several centuries later. Looking at what we have in the Bible itself, it is obvious that they had a horrible time of making it out of there and even whenthey finally arrive to the 'Promised Land' they are kicked out for forty years because they are scared of fighting the Giants that inhabit the land and after they finally arrive to the 'Promised Land' they are constantly subjugated and punished for entertaining other religious sects within the land resulting in God needing to send his super powered followers, the 'Judges', to take on the heathens and show the Hebrew people whose really top God. And even then, more God inspired problems.
I mean I know you guys are discussing the whole Calvinist shebang with 'supralapsarianism' v. 'infralapsarianism' but really if you want to look at something in retrospect from a transcendental perspective, why did God put his chosen people into slavery. Only to decide to bust them out several centuries later. Looking at what we have in the Bible itself, it is obvious that they had a horrible time of making it out of there and even when
