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Originally posted by Tophat665
What if
1) There were 100% proof that the God of the Old Testament existed and
2) Similar proof that he was a capricious and evil bastard?
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Question to me doesn't make sense...mainly becuase i recognize that the Hebrew Scriptures do not paint a singular portrait of God. The God of the Deuteronomist differs from the God of Nahum, who in turn differs from the God of the Elohist, who yet again is different than the God of Daniel.
sort of astounds me that so many basically only see the OT as a repository of negative and evil statements about God. Its a challenging, multilayered set of documents that resists any easy catagorization. i suppose i should be less surprised though...such over generalization was a mistake i made for many years.