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Re: One of my issues with the god of the old testament
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Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:39:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> is illustrated here:
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> http://www.thereverend.com/brick_testament/the_tower_of_babel/gn11_07.html
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> Please! What sort of god thwarts his people out of spite? Not my sort.
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> Brick Testament is absolutely gorgeous work and I think the Rev is to be
> commended for some very very well done models and pages. Bravo!
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> But I can tell you this, I'll be urging my kids to view this and THINK about
> what it implies about the god of the old testament.
I'd offer that one shouldn't read a great deal of Old Testament history with a
literal eye. Much of the ancient work has a very folklorish quality from which
we are meant to learn certain truths (such as the folly of pride in the case of
Babel) from a story with fantastical (and/or fantastically simple) precepts. The
tower of Babel may imply certain things about what the people who told the story
believed about God, but I think that we would be in error to disregard many
centuries of religious experience, scholarship, and educated doctrinal
development that have led Christiandom to firmly believe that God is not in fact
spiteful.
james
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