Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??

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• jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It made sense to scare people into being reasonable. That was the Old Testament.

  Once they acted less stupidly, it became safer to let people be as they are. That was the New Testament.

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• Ging@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There are more than a few disrespectful answers here, but if any of these ppl talked to someone who honestly believed, they’d be more inclined to tell you to investigate the new covenant

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  • Ging@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Am a Christian atheist ftr–just feels bad to see so many accept convenient lies over the honest truths of a worthwhile series of stories (wether they factually happened is of little to no value in the pursuit of truth, no?)

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    • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just to clarify - so you don't believe in any of the supernatural stuff and are just about the better teachings of Jesus? Aka a Jefferson bible take?

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• tazeycrazy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It depends where you read. There is fire and brimstone in the new testament. Revelation is a book that doesn’t hold back and we see a wrothful God of judgment. But then there stories of Josiph and his brothers, or the book of Daniel, shows that there is forgivness in the old testament as well.

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• Bakedtaint@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  God a bitch

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• StrongHorseWeakNeigh@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In the Coptic belief it is just two different gods.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  marcionite-scripture.info/Marcionite_Bible.htm

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