I’ve always preferred the grumpy God of the Old Testament: a moody God who smites his enemies, plays favorites, and loses his sh*t from time to time.
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What kind of a monster of a father sacrifices his son, his only begotten son, on the altar of his love of another? A mother would never do such a thing! And I, for one, can’t imagine any reason why I’d sacrifice either of my only begotten sons.
I really can’t stand this God, this God of the New Testament, who can love the whole world. He maketh no fucking sense to me.
But can you really fault me for this, friend? Don’t we so often hate things we don’t understand, almost as much as we hate those who remind us of our own limitations?
Besides, in my experience, people who say they love everyone don’t love anyone well.
And don’t we so often hate those who challenge our experience, our knowledge, our wisdom, almost as much as we hate those who remind us of how little we really know?
Maybe that’s why I’ve always preferred the grumpy God of the Old Testament: a moody god who smites his enemies, plays favorites, and loses his shit from time to time.
I can relate to this needy god who desperately craves validation and hurts his chosen people the most. This broken, faulted, insecure god makes sense to me, a god who builds sand castles of love and longing in the honey light of the afternoon, who showers his holy lands with tears of rage at night, and paints the morning skies with rainbows of regret.
—John Faithful Hamer, From Here (2015)
Originally published at Committing Sociology. Reprinted with permission.
Photo courtesy of author.
Jehovah(God) did not just send his only begotten son to die so we’d be forgiven for our sins just because he felt like being evil. There was a reason behind it… Everything was created through our king(Jesus Christ) for example Adam… The first human being opposed Jehovah by partaking in eating the forbidden fruit through which sin entered each and everyone of us. This made Adam imperfect along with all of his children(us). One man made us all imperfect, so Jesus was sacrificed in order that we may all have perfect everlasting life on a paradise earth. This was god’s… Read more »
Wow…you are speaking almost the exact same words my late husband spoke for so many years. He, too, used to think God was a monster…not just because of Jesus, who he really wasn’t even sure he believed in, but because of all the hardship and suffering of those who he considered to be innocents. He also had a great anger toward God for the times he had suffered and stared death in the face from early childhood as he had Evan’s Syndrome. First, I will say to you what I said to him. Jesus IS God. He was God in… Read more »
It’s the same God.