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FLRW,
YOUR QUOTE OF DISGUST OF JESUS BEING THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT: "God's command to destroy the Canaanites by Israel constitutes one of the great ethical dilemmas of the Old Testament."
Lest you forget this little gem that I have had to accept in being a TRUE Christian, where Jesus as God, will do the following concerning Babylon's inhabitants:
"Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, And the earth will be shaken from its place At the fury of the Lord of armies In the day of His burning anger. And it will be that, like a hunted gazelle, Or like sheep with no one to gather them, Each of them will turn to his own people, And each of them will flee to his own land. Anyone who is found will be thrust through, And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword. Their little ones also will be dashed to pieces Before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives raped." (Isaiah 13:15-18)
FLRW, when Jesus as God wants innocent little children dashed to pieces before their parents eyes, do you know what that would sound like? I always thought it to be like a watermelon being smashed to the ground, ewwwwww! Furthermore, it was bad enough that Jesus wants houses plundered, but why would Jesus in addition want wives RAPED in said houses?
Remember, we Christians are told that Jesus is always forgiving (1 John:1:9) and ever loving to His followers as well (1 John 4:10), but He certainly wasn't these entities in the very descriptive horrific scenario above! Oh, well. :(
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