crystalpraise
To understand God you must open up your spiritual ears
Prove that "spiritual ears" exist, and I'll entertain this notion further. Until then, I'll be treating it as the pathetic
handwave that it is.
Now,
actually explain how God is supposed to be "the most loving being ever" in spite of him ordering his people to annihilate cities full of men, women, and children (including unborn ones), not
once, not
twice, not
three times, nor
four, or
five, or
six, or even
seven or
eight, but
nine times.
Tell me how it sounds to your "spiritual ears" when God says such things as "
leave none alive which breathe", "
utterly destroy the young and old alike, showing them no mercy", and "
tear open their pregnant women".
crystalpraise
from all the stories of the old testament you mentioned you obviously have no revelation of Satan and an understanding that people were not under grace in the old covenant...
You should really stop using the word "obvious" when referring to other peoples' views, because it's abundantly clear that you're either obtusely or deliberately missing the points I'm making.
Case in point: What does my "revelation of Satan" and people of the Old Covenant not being "under Grace" have to do with...
* a lady's twins flip-flopping in the middle of labor?
* getting striped cattle by having their parents look at striped sticks while breeding?
* God ordering his people to murder an entire society?
* "light" existing before there was a source for it?
* day and night existing before the Sun?
* plants existing before the Sun?
* how Noah, his family, and all the animals could breathe at an elevation above 29,000'?
* how Noah, his family, and all the animals didn't freeze to death in the 1.4°F temperatures at 29,000'?
* how, based on the measurements in the Bible, each species of animal on the Ark was supposed to have fit into 1.5'³ of space?
The answer is, of course,
nothing. Satan and Grace have nothing to do with anything I said, and your response is a complete red herring.
Now, if you'd like to, we can talk about contradictions and woo in the
New Testament, since that way you can't use Grace or whatever as an excuse. Just let me know, and I can give you a list of the numerous problematic things in the Nativity narrative alone, and then we can move on from there. Though we
both know that you won't treat anything I say with the amount of intellectual honesty necessary to fill a thimble, I'm still plenty willing to post it for the sake of everyone else who will read it.