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Brian Zahnd: No, God didnt command genocide in the Old Testament [View all]
From the interesting opinion piece:
Even a casual reader of the Bible notices that between the alleged divine endorsement of genocide in the conquest of Canaan and Jesuss call for love of enemies in his Sermon on the Mount, something has clearly changed.
What has changed is not God but the degree to which humanity has attained an understanding of the true nature of God. The Bible is not the perfect revelation of God; Jesus is. Jesus is the only perfect theology.
What has changed is not God but the degree to which humanity has attained an understanding of the true nature of God. The Bible is not the perfect revelation of God; Jesus is. Jesus is the only perfect theology.
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http://religionnews.com/2017/08/29/brian-zahnd-no-god-didnt-command-genocide-in-the-old-testament/
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Talking about an actual year with Christianity is not very useful
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2017
#100
I am accepting the narrative of 30CE as the beginning of the public ministry. eom
guillaumeb
Sep 2017
#102
That isn't so, for centuries Christianity was largely persecuted and hidden away, and very
braddy
Sep 2017
#127
You seem to be mostly in agreement with what I posted, people ignore the first centuries of
braddy
Sep 2017
#137
I'm not aware of any Christian wars or Christian nations from the early centuries that you keep
braddy
Sep 2017
#142
The god of the bible created satan, and allows it to continue to exist.
AtheistCrusader
Aug 2017
#36
If one is a Biblical literalist, one will insist on a literal interpretation.
guillaumeb
Aug 2017
#7
There's a middle ground between 'this is true word for word' and 'hey the first half of this entire
AtheistCrusader
Aug 2017
#57
A Biblical literalist generally accepts that each word of the Bible is the inspired
guillaumeb
Aug 2017
#59
I get allegory. What I don't get is classifying everything one doesn't like
AtheistCrusader
Aug 2017
#68
I don't accept that humans are deeply flawed creatures who must beg for forgiveness from a god,
trotsky
Sep 2017
#94
Feeble deflection. There are whole books in the bible that are nothing but bloodshed on behalf of or
AtheistCrusader
Aug 2017
#38
You are shying away from the main point of the article you posted
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2017
#109
You said in #12 that you disagree that Zahnd is a New Testament literalist
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2017
#111
Plenty of clarity is to be found in reason, fact-based historical research and an open mind
Bradshaw3
Aug 2017
#56
I mentioned in the original post that I found this to be an interesting opinion.
guillaumeb
Aug 2017
#66
Never said it was - as long as they admit it is just belief and not fact based
Bradshaw3
Aug 2017
#85
I do spend time here, and interestingly enough, many non-theists devote far more time here.
guillaumeb
Aug 2017
#89
You keep using that word. Wikipedia does not think it means what you think it means.
Pope George Ringo II
Sep 2017
#118
Technically, that's the definition you cited when you went to Wikipedia. I just used the right word
Pope George Ringo II
Sep 2017
#120
Hello. The Religion Group is a very busy place. Many of the responders are non-theists,
guillaumeb
Aug 2017
#88