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.
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:
yourself
those you lied to
your relationship with God
The punishments described in The Old Testament were not assigned arbitrarily. Those being punished were doing some damnation-worthy sins at scale.
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.
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.