Text Post: The Jealous God posted by spaceghoti

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Yes I have, believe it or not I was a Deist before God found me. I think the biggest part of my relationship with God. I have been pulled through things and shown things that should of never happened to me before I started reading the bible. Than I studied Biblical Science and learned and formed my own opinions about God. But the one thing that has to be pretty consistent with me is that I read the Bible and not take it out of context.

In that regards meaning according to the time it was written and when it was written and the original language it was written in meaning something totally different than what people 'think' it means today.

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  "Context" isn't a useful argument. In the context of when the books of the Bible was written the god of Abraham was a literally bloodthirsty tyrant who could do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted for any reason he chose. If we base our understanding on the ideas of Bronze Age nomads then the god worshipped by the majority of people today will kill and torture most of humanity for the crime of not believing. That was the mindset of the time, when life was cheap and brutal.
  
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