this explains a great deal
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The Holy Bible is simply amazing. I always find them relevant to modern times, whichever chapter in both old and new testaments. I find great joy in reading the Bible and singing praise and worship daily. I feel that it gives true meaning to the word "Ascension" per mentioned by Q.
The more people who can relate to their own lives by way of The Bible the better.
How do religious people reconcile the curse put on others through out the Bible for just not worshipping their God with the kind and forgiving figure they have painted of Christ.
The Bible teaches the children of God to genocide the innocent. It even gives permission to genocide the first born of children of their enemies.
When I do an internet search, here’s one of the first evangelical search results I see. I suspect this would be the typical response to that inquiry.
I approve of their response; however, they are missing the tainted bloodline theory, which is a bit more complex. In a nutshell, we learn earlier in Genesis that certain "sons of God" (in this case, angelic beings) mated with human females and begat nephalim, some of whom were giants. These hybrid beings were the cause of much evil in the world. Some people believe the races God wanted exterminated were descendants of those hybrid beings. Some also hold that these very same hybrid beings that were not actually completely destroyed as God had commanded, are actually related to the evil cabal bloodlines we are dealing with in the Great Awakening. Crazy as it may sound, digging deep into this, I can say it explains a lot of things that have no better explanation.
I find it agreeable enough. It's a worthy supplement to my own reply.
Well I'm not truly religious, but I am a Christian with some amount of faith. I take your question seriously, so here's a few thoughts.
Sin is separation from God. Sinners choose it. The 'punishment' for sin is 'death', but my feeling is that the sin is perversely self-punishing. In other words, it's like volunteering for slavery because ... reasons?
Lying is a sin. In order to lie a person must first lie to himself. You can't give words to the lie before you've rehearsed it in your own mind. So then you lie to others, and eventually to God. So in order your sin damaged:
The punishments described in The Old Testament were not assigned arbitrarily. Those being punished were doing some damnation-worthy sins at scale.
I am in Samuel now, and having a hard time with this too. 1 Samuel 15:3.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1-Samuel-Chapter-15/
Religion is just another control mechanism. Which one? All of them.
Thank you!