Well this is just another - get out - excuse for the now educated 21century Christian , isn't it? And the author of this thread, YOU, TheUnderdog deserve congratulating .
Somewhere along the line it has dawned on Christians that by adopting a god from a time they never knew and could never understand, and from a culture that they never knew or could ever understand, that their early Christian ancestors had damned future generations of Christians to having to forever defend the indefensible and have left the now educated believer to reconcile all of the biblical contradictions between the Old Testament god and the New Testament god. Indeed, they had certainly painted future generations of Christians into a nice tight corner. And with the help of liars such as Paul.
As the author TheUnderdog ( not to mention the scriptures themselves) quite clearly show, that there are obvious differences between the god that the 21st century Christian says `loves and died for us ` and will have us believe and the barbaric, brutal, jealous god of war that the Jews knew of, understood and worshipped, and usually out of sheer fear..
For proof of the nature of the barbaric and jealous warmongering god of the Jews that shows that, to their god, humans were insignificant, irrelevant and replaceable at ten a penny any day of the week, one only has to read the very short and extremely sad BIBLICAL story of Job.
Job it is said was 'blameless" in the eyes of god and walked in the ways of god all his days. But non of this mattered or counted for anything when it came to Job's gods' ego.
I urge all those reading here to read this 5 minute story for themselves.
Nearly every Christian that I have ever met have attempted to explain the barbaric story away by simply saying that " god replaced everything, that included 10 dead children that he had killed and destroyed of Job".!!!!!! Of well, that ok then, isn't it?
Jesus over 2000 years ago, himself said that he hadn't come to change the law? Which law?
The gospels and Mathew in particular, are always harking back to the Old Testament and its god. So the 21st century Christian has a uphill struggle on his hands when it comes to trying to convince anyone that their god loves us all.
Congratulations TheUnderdog. A+1