Is this a description of your god? Not mine!
I think Caleb Miller does a good job at describing what the church and many Christians have turned the wonderful story and attributes of our wonderful, loving God, into: "bipolar god creates man to serve him man screws up angry god wrathfully kicks them out of eden man screws up vengeful god destroys every living thing man screws up hippie god becomes peace loving human wrathful god kills hippie ... son hippie son redeems man through taking the father's abuse man has an opportunity at salvation, but only less than 1% will get it. bipolar god laughs and laughs while billions burn." [END QUOTE] This is why I share things that I write, and from men and women who have received wisdom from the Lord to help teach how we can get our interpretations wrong, and place the blame at the wrong Feet, as well as teach how historical beliefs affected writings in the past and currently. One of the first places to start in proper interpretation is knowing just who steals,...