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The world if christian lived by christian values
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If that god was really loving, then hell wouldn't be a punishment for rejection.
I'm not convinced that any gods are real, but I'm convinced that the Bible god absolutely isn't.
Hell doesn’t exist in the Bible, it’s something later Christians thought up as a moral basis to keep people following the rules and to show up to their specific church services. I mean the church was even selling indulgences for a long while there which was a way of buying yourself a space in heaven, which goes against what Jesus talked about.
The Bible is all made up stories anyway. Why not keep adding to the fiction?
The Christian Bible ultimately is about telling the story of a kind and caring God, and that we are made in God’s image. The early Israelite God, in the Torah and Old Testament, by comparison, was more focused on adhering to strict rules, traditions, and collective punishment for lapsing in the early Israelites commitment to the rules and traditions.
I do agree that there are parts of the Bible which were added where the authenticity of the author was forged. For instance, many of the books attributed to Paul were not written by him, yet they were made to sound like they were his instructions. Most notably, the whole section about women not being allowed in leadership positions in the church. Hierarchies were not inherently parts of Jesus’ teachings at all, but it’s how the early Christians chose to organize themselves. It’s how they maintained aspects of the patriarchy as well.
Some people would agree with you that the Bible should have kept being added to. In some ways that’s seen among some Christian faiths, although few add to the Bible itself for those stories. For instance, with Catholics there are the Saints which followers of the faith learn about, not generally all of them but one(s) that align with the aspects of their faith they care most about. Such as a focus on education, feeding the hungry, healing the sick and injured, etc.
Genesis, Exodus, and Job were fabricated from older myths. They literally didn't happen. Matthew and Luke were copied from Mark, and none of the gospels have known authors.
It's a book of badly written fiction with a few embellished events tossed in.
The mature-faith circles I hear say that it's a state of mind that is the only place for one who disagrees with God to go, because God fills up that much space otherwise and it wouldn't be fair for them to experience God when they have clearly stated that they don't want to.
That's an oxymoron.
I stopped believing in fairy tales when I was 8.
I was only talking from their perspective, not ours.