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@ogb said
does God like best now? In the Bible, he's always taking sides...

God very often punished the Hebrews -- indeed, at the end of the day, He destroyed the Hebrews.

He doesn't really take sides like how we perceive it.

@petewxyz said
Should there be a poll?

No, but maybe a novel!

@ghost-of-a-duke said
In relation to your ears, God did make three references to them:

Talking of ears ...

Why do elephants have BIG EARS?

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What's your position on the relationship between God and the bible when it comes to picking countries, sides etc?

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Do you feel the bible accurately depicts God as a deity that takes sides or do you think that is more about the authors' wishes, perspectives?

@petewxyz said
Do you feel the bible accurately depicts God as a deity that takes sides or do you think that is more about the authors' wishes, perspectives?

There's a definite distinction between the Old Testament where he's very much the God of Israel and the New Testament where he's more even handed.

@deepthought said
There's a definite distinction between the Old Testament where he's very much the God of Israel and the New Testament where he's more even handed.

Maybe the old testament was for a people and the new testament was written with a view to converting different peoples. On the face of it that sounds more like a correlation with the extent of the spread of the religion.

@petewxyz said
Maybe the old testament was for a people and the new testament was written with a view to converting different peoples. On the face of it that sounds more like a correlation with the extent of the spread of the religion.

In the Old Testament, we very much see a tribal God not present in the New Testament.

@petewxyz said
Do you feel the bible accurately depicts God as a deity that takes sides or do you think that is more about the authors' wishes, perspectives?

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I would agree. It has to be down to the authors wishes. A deity that takes sides just seems to be a complete contradiction. The thing is that that felt like the only reasonable conclusion to the 'Leviticus Evil?' thread as well so if you keep seeing the conclusion 'that one must be down to the author'...