esp if you’re one of the devout ones who think they’ve been really good

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    6 months ago

    You don’t see any cognitive dissonance with that statement coming from an absolutely good and loving being?

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      6 months ago

      Absolutely good and Absolutely just.

      Not absolutely loving. Source: Bible

      “I loved Jacob, but Esau I hated.” Malachi 1

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        6 months ago

        Here’s an alternative translation of those verses from NLT:

        I loved your ancestor Jacob, but I rejected his brother, Esau

        But I don’t know any Hebrew and only a few words of ancient Greek, so can’t comment on how accurate it is.

        Besides that, the perception of God is vastly different between the testaments:

        7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9

        1 John 4

        You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.

        Matthew 5:43-45