| ...Maybe there’s not such a fine line between a “jealous” God and insecure one? Or is this a projection of Man’s (sic) own insecurity? and fear? “Their blood will be on their own hands.” Sounds like blaming the victim: “It’s quite your fault I have to stone you to death, you see." -A convenient psychological release clause for the ones compelled to do the stoning, commit the murder. For isn't this murder? Today would not someone be tried for murder for killing a preacher of a false god? And would we not pray for God's Justice, that the killer might be punished? The God of the New Testament does not seem the God who would command us to stone to death a spiritualist, or anyone preaching a god other than God. Then again, what of the witch-burning in Salem? Was that really so long ago? We’re not as far as we would like to believe from bloodshed predicated upon demonization. And if this is no longer God’s 'position,' does this mean God changed his nature? Changed his ‘mind’? Are there two Gods or one? or more? Or is it only we who have changed.. |
