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bh11235Ask any sufficiently religious Jew or Muslim, and they will tell you: this, what you are seeing right now, is the Lord almighty working in mysterious ways so that his will be done. If you persist: “so, raped women? Dead children? That’s the plan?”, sufficiently religious Jews will clutch their pearls and ask how dare you ask such a flippant question, and sufficiently religious Muslims will answer “yes” like that bearded guy in that meme.
Wasn’t New Testament (Jesus) the one that changed view that God is all loving?
Yup. My fan theory is that old testament god is the new testament devil.
Gnostics believed the old testament god is a malformed mistake, and it’s evil, blind, and jealous
Yeah, through it flipped the paradigm from the proto-Gnostic thought, which instead had God brought forth by a spontaneously existing original man.
In parallel with the resurgence of Platonism, it flipped from “physical first, spiritual second” (as Paul mentioned in 1 Cor 15) to “spiritual first, physical second” and the eventual demiurge went from an agent of salvation escaping the Epicurean doom of a soul which depends on a naturally occurring physical body to an agent of corruption imprisoning the Platonic intelligently designed forms to corrupted and imperfect physical embodiment.
The earlier stuff is much more interesting than the later nonsense.