I wanted to highlight a few Bible scriptures to make a major point of the conflicting message about the definition of love as it pertains to the supposed actions of God towards mankind. Since the Bible states that we were made in the image of God then we would also be endowed with aspects of God's consciousness which includes the ability to understand and feel the essence of love. There are many scriptures especially when quoting Jesus about the message of love. One such scripture is "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." (John 4:8 NIV)
Most people of the spiritual mind would not argue with this message of God the Source of all things being the embodiment of love. That love from a scientific standpoint is the radiation of the cosmic vibrational energy that creates the fabric of time and space of all that exists including our conscious energy selves. Therefore we are all connected by the love energy of God and to each other.
Another message came from the Apostle John in one of his letters about love - "For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous." (1 John 3:11,12 NIV) Here again most would agree with this message because if we truly loved each other we would not commit actions such as murder towards one another. No one has to tell us that this is wrong - to most people this is instinctive and we are appalled when we hear about these actions.
How do we feel when someone commits senseless murder like the incident in Connecticut especially towards innocent children? How would we feel about this person? Would you admire him or his actions regardless of his reasons? Could you really say that this individual had any quality of love in this matter? Of course not!
Now let's look at what the prophet Samuel, a messenger of the Bible's God, commands King Saul of Israel to do:
"Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’” (1 Samuel 15:3 NIV)
Still have that warm and cozy feeling towards the Bible's version of God? Does this make you want to draw close to this "God of love" or do you feel a natural abhorrence to what is presented here.
Let's fast forward to the last book of the Bible - the book of Revelation and focus on what the God of the Bible plans are for a large portion of the human race during our time:
"13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
16 The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.
17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.
18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.
19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts."
(Rev 9:13-21 NIV)
To recap this passage, the God of the Bible is basically ordering the slaughter of 1/3 of all mankind - that works out to around three billion people based on today's total population. This God further holds the rest of mankind that he does not destroy in contempt as willful sinners. So who is the real sinner here?? It's like "the pot calling the kettle black"!
The main point that I'm making is that the true God/Source of all that is has been misrepresented by the Bible. I have no doubt that a "God of the Jews and Christians" as represented by the Bible actually existed but is simply some superior being that exerted control over a portion of the human race and somehow implied that he was also the creator of all the universe.
When you start to look at a bigger picture you finally realize that the greater portion of what was presented in the Bible was all about controlling people through fear and dread and consequences for disobeying the controller.
If you really want to know the true God/Source look within yourselves to discover the answer. Reclaim your power as a real human being - become empowered by knowing that only you control your destiny in reality!
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