The many sides of the Old Testament God

[foxfirefey]

The Old Testament God is more interested in social justice than in honor to God.
The Old Testament God is all about the religious democracy.
The Old Testament God can be talked around.
The Old Testament God is in an It's Complicated with Israel.
The Old Testament God wants to save everybody, even when his prophet is being a dick.

Job's a big part of the Old Testament, no question, but so is Jonah. Don't be a jackass and try to remember that mercy and goodness are not inventions that rolled around in zero AD.

nextian is is showing us how it's done, Old Testament style.

Comments

[sporky_rat]

Jonah is who I go to when I start feeling like I'm being oppressed. He reminds me that no matter what, there's always someone I can go to.

[quinfirefrorefiddle]

I'm finishing my Masters in Divinity, and I agree with this post.

Though my Hebrew sucks, so take that with a grain of salt.

[msilverstar]

The Old Testament God is in an It's Complicated with Israel.

Word.

[alexseanchai]

The Old Testament God is more interested in social justice than in honor to God.

Wish somebody'd tell the evangelicals that. Come to think, Jesus is more interested in social justice than in just about anything, and I wish somebody'd tell the evangelicals that too.

[queenbarwench]

The Old Testament God is in an It's Complicated with Israel.

Is just too funny!

[hatman]

Old Testament God is highly open to interpretation, His story having been put together by many different human hands over many centuries. (After being an oral tradition for several centuries.) What I took away from it, mostly, is that Old Testament God, by modern moral standards, is evil.

[owl]

I wouldn't put your first point quite that way; I would say that social justice is the *means* of honouring God. A big showy religious display one day of the week while spending the other six exploiting other people is something that's preached against over and over in the OT.

[foxfirefey]

Did you mean to comment this on the context post?

[owl]

Whoops, thanks. Have taken it over there :)