That is in contrast to the Christian God, who because He is love, commands to love one another, not just those who look, sound, and act like us. If you do not love the children of the Gaza as dearly as you love yourself you stand in opposition to his commandments.
Our dear friend ZC should realize we believe in an unchanging God of Love who would be changed from perfection if He had hatred in Him
The God of Abraham who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and commanded the slaughter of the Canaanites is the God of Christianity as well.
The difference is in the means of forgiveness of sin. There is the love of God but there is also the wrath of God, then as now.
To believe otherwise is to imagine some great cosmic Santa Claus, a grave error.
That is in contrast to the Christian God, who because He is love, commands to love one another, not just those who look, sound, and act like us. If you do not love the children of the Gaza as dearly as you love yourself you stand in opposition to his commandments.
The Torah very plainly orders the utter annihilation of eight distinct nations. Now . . . chrstianity has always claimed a superior knowledge of G-d than Judaism, but what we see here is a justification of liberal theology and "Biblical criticism" in the name of the chrstian "progressive revelation": ie, "The ancient Israelites thought that G-d ordered them to annihilate eight nations because they didn't know any better, the fulness of revelation had not yet come, and that's the kind of world they lived in back then. Nowadays we know that G-d never ordered such a thing, but the Israelites thought He did and wrote it into their semi-savage Bible. The authors of the Bible were primitive and didn't understand the true nature of G-d any more than they understood the true origins of the universe."
There. Did I describe your worldview accurately?
This is blasphemy against G-d and against the Torah. But this blasphemy has been latent in chrstianity all along and was inevitable. Once one rejects the commandments and ceremonials of the Torah (and replaces them with alien ones), it is only a matter of time before one replaces the "primitive" worldview of the Torah and its narratives with a more up-to-date "scientific" one.
Catholics (and all classical chrstians) do not worship the Biblical G-d. They reject the Biblical G-d for the same reason atheist liberals reject G-d altogether: because He's allegedly a "big meanie." This standing in judgment on A-mighty G-d (which one would hope most people wouldn't have the guts to do) is inevitable once one replaces G-d as the source of morality with "natural law."
Our dear friend ZC should realize we believe in an unchanging God of Love who would be changed from perfection if He had hatred in Him
If you reject HaShem as G-d, kindly do not call me your "dear friend." The reference to a "bloodthirsty" G-d was clearly based on the two thousand year old chrstian slander on the "old testament G-d" as being a bloodthirsty tyrant as opposed to the allegedly "superior" chrstian "gxd" who would never order the annihilation of entire nations--but who has no trouble in torturing uncounted billions of souls in fire for all eternity. Yes, your "gxd" is just a big huggable teddy bear, isn't he?
Unfortunately, since you have no knowledge of the Holy Tongue (the language from which the universe was created), you don't understand either "love" or "hatred." In Hebrew the expressions "love" and "hate" are used to merely describe G-d's choice of one person/group/position to another. The well-known quote from Mal'akhi "Jacob have I loved, `Esav have I hated" merely means that G-d chose Jacob rather than `Esav. Of course, if you think the ancient Israelites were stone-age savages and the Holy Torah nothing but primitive ravings you will only laugh at this.
It is truly heartbreaking to see members of the allegedly "unchanged and unchanging" church invoking liberal Protestant higher criticism in order to justify the replacement of Judaism by chrstianity. As anti-Semitic as they are, I don't think the sedevacantists would have the gall to do what you Catholic FReepers have done--although they'd probably have their hearts warmed by your new-found fundamentalism with regard to Yushqa' actually being born on 12/25 ("because that's what the Roman census records say!").