THE PEACEMAKERS of the Goodnews = [goodwill towards all men]
and those who preach THE GOSPEL OF PEACE.
compare.
According to the biblical scholar Raymund Schwager,
The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery.
People enslave, rape, and murder members of their immediate families.
Warlords slaughter civilians indiscriminately, including the children.
Women are bought, sold, and plundered like sex toys.
And Yahweh tortures and massacres people by the hundreds of thousands for trivial disobedience or for no reason at all.
These atrocities are neither isolated nor obscure.
They implicate all the major characters of the Old Testament, the ones that Sunday-school children draw with crayons.
And they fall into a continuous plotline that stretches for millennia, from Adam and Eve through Noah, the patriarchs, Moses, Joshua, the judges, Saul, David, Solomon, and beyond.
The Hebrew Bible “contains over six hundred passages that explicitly talk about nations, kings, or individuals attacking, destroying, and killing others''. . . .
Aside from the approximately one thousand verses in which Yahweh himself appears as the direct executioner of violent punishments, and the many texts in which the Lord delivers the criminal to the punisher’s sword,
in over one hundred other passages Yahweh expressly gives the command to kill people.”
"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"How many more must die before we finally get together?
Before we stand our ground?
Before we say 'No More!'?
the NEW COVENANT ushered in a NEW l.i.v.i.n.g WAY yet The Christian church and the christian pews remain related to VIOLENCE still suffering from the OT morality of '' an eye for an eye''
WHY SO?
and those who preach THE GOSPEL OF PEACE.
compare.
According to the biblical scholar Raymund Schwager,
The Bible depicts a world that, seen through modern eyes, is staggering in its savagery.
People enslave, rape, and murder members of their immediate families.
Warlords slaughter civilians indiscriminately, including the children.
Women are bought, sold, and plundered like sex toys.
And Yahweh tortures and massacres people by the hundreds of thousands for trivial disobedience or for no reason at all.
These atrocities are neither isolated nor obscure.
They implicate all the major characters of the Old Testament, the ones that Sunday-school children draw with crayons.
And they fall into a continuous plotline that stretches for millennia, from Adam and Eve through Noah, the patriarchs, Moses, Joshua, the judges, Saul, David, Solomon, and beyond.
The Hebrew Bible “contains over six hundred passages that explicitly talk about nations, kings, or individuals attacking, destroying, and killing others''. . . .
Aside from the approximately one thousand verses in which Yahweh himself appears as the direct executioner of violent punishments, and the many texts in which the Lord delivers the criminal to the punisher’s sword,
in over one hundred other passages Yahweh expressly gives the command to kill people.”
"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"How many more must die before we finally get together?
Before we stand our ground?
Before we say 'No More!'?
the NEW COVENANT ushered in a NEW l.i.v.i.n.g WAY yet The Christian church and the christian pews remain related to VIOLENCE still suffering from the OT morality of '' an eye for an eye''
WHY SO?
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