I have similar feelings about the Christian god. Does Christ need our fealty? What if we take his advice, and pattern our lives based on his teachings, but do not worship him? Are we destined to hell because we do not bend the knee?
FYI just finished reading the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. Here is my take away;
The message Jesus gives is this - 1) Follow the 10 commandments 2) Recognize that human suck and we sin 3) ask for forgiveness for that sin and try not to do it again 4) -most important- realize that forgiveness will be granted if the request to be forgiven is genuine.
That’s it. The rest of the Gospels is Jesus proving what faith does and forecasting his crucifixion.
The doom god you are talking about is the one Jews were following and they always revert to worshipping bull headed gods anyhow.
The Sons of God, or Watchers, rebelled against God and tried to take his creation for their own. Part of that rebellion was corrupting Gods perfect creation - man. Some of this is detailed in the War scroll and some in the Book of Enoch.
God flooded the world to get rid of the corruption of the Watchers, and according to the Book of Giants, God granted clemency to some of the Nephelim at Noah’s request.
To make sure man was free of spiritual corruption, he laid out 10 simple rules for us to follow - the 10 commandments. Sin appears to violating that extremely simple rule set.
These rules appear to be in place to help us fend off the corruption introduced by the Watchers and, when we fuck up - like we always do - we need to be disciplined just like we would disciple our own children when they insist on endangering themselves by ignoring the rules we set for their own safety.
Most of the horror show in the Old Testament is God continuing to purge the blight introduced by the watchers. Some of the events (I believe) are Jewish bull worship traditions being introduced to the text and blended with the identity of God to muddy the waters. Like I said, Jews love worshiping Bull gods, and love child sacrifice too for some reason
Eventually Jesus showed up to remind man that the rules were simple and forgiveness guaranteed, just like we would forgive our own children (see the parable of the Prodigal son).
FYI just finished reading the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John. Here is my take away;
The message Jesus gives is this - 1) Follow the 10 commandments 2) Recognize that human suck and we sin 3) ask for forgiveness for that sin and try not to do it again 4) -most important- realize that forgiveness will be granted if the request to be forgiven is genuine.
That’s it. The rest of the Gospels is Jesus proving what faith does and forecasting his crucifixion.
The doom god you are talking about is the one Jews were following and they always revert to worshipping bull headed gods anyhow.
Take all that for what you will…
I have to ask, what is sin? The 10 commandments? And who is the victim? Are we cursed for victimless crimes?
I don’t think so.
The Sons of God, or Watchers, rebelled against God and tried to take his creation for their own. Part of that rebellion was corrupting Gods perfect creation - man. Some of this is detailed in the War scroll and some in the Book of Enoch.
God flooded the world to get rid of the corruption of the Watchers, and according to the Book of Giants, God granted clemency to some of the Nephelim at Noah’s request.
To make sure man was free of spiritual corruption, he laid out 10 simple rules for us to follow - the 10 commandments. Sin appears to violating that extremely simple rule set.
These rules appear to be in place to help us fend off the corruption introduced by the Watchers and, when we fuck up - like we always do - we need to be disciplined just like we would disciple our own children when they insist on endangering themselves by ignoring the rules we set for their own safety.
Most of the horror show in the Old Testament is God continuing to purge the blight introduced by the watchers. Some of the events (I believe) are Jewish bull worship traditions being introduced to the text and blended with the identity of God to muddy the waters. Like I said, Jews love worshiping Bull gods, and love child sacrifice too for some reason
Eventually Jesus showed up to remind man that the rules were simple and forgiveness guaranteed, just like we would forgive our own children (see the parable of the Prodigal son).
Nope, the hateful vengeful god in the Bible's old Testament is the same evil god of the Bible's New Testament. Sorry.