Peace to you, braincleaned! Since you are using the book (bible) to determine that God is not love, I am compelled by the Spirit to also use the book (bible) to give you some things to think about.
My questions are:
• Where is there any hint of Love that would justify the killing of animals for sacrifice, then
leading to a HUMAN sacrifice?
"I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Hosea 6:6, also repeated by Christ
"Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have pierced;*
burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.
Then I said, "here I am, I have come - it is written about me in the scroll-
I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is written upon my heart." Psalm 40:6-8
*pierced = opened.
So which is true? God wants sacrifices... or does not want sacrifices? How can you tell what is the truth about God?
• Explain Exodus 29:18 and the preposterous idea that the aroma of death is pleasing to God?
See above.
• Explain how one can rationalize the torture, humiliation, and death of Jesus as a "good thing"
considering that Jehovah is the inventor of this bloody protocol, and he allegedly has the
power to forgive without any of this?
The torture, humiliation and death of Christ... was not the good thing. And for certain, Christ was not being sacrificed to God by those who killed Him!
But Christ lay down his life for others; forgiving even those who put him to death; for not cursing God even in his pain and suffering; for remaining in God's love, loyal and obedient TO God. Doing what we so often fail to do... with regard to those who wrong us. God did not demand that anyone kill His son. It is the adversary is the one who prompted Judas to give Christ up. God knew what would happen and foretold it from the beginning; but that His Son would overcome, even death... and that any in his Son would also have life in His son. So the good thing... the good news... braincleand; is that though Christ gave his life and died... He yet LIVED!
The resurrection and the life.
He IS the resurrection and the life... and death has no hold on him; same as death has no hold on anyone IN him, covered by his blood (his life).
Recall how death could not enter the houses of the Israelites who had the blood of the lamb on their doorstep?
• Having given the idea to humans that sacrifice is a good thing, how could Jehovah violently
kill whole nations who practice this?
There is no 'jehovah'.
But where do you see that God violently killed whole nations for anything?
*( more LOVE from Jehovah punishing child sacrifice — what he intended to do himself — by killingfrantically: "The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled againsttheir God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open." Hosea 13:16
That is a prophetic statement of what WILL happen; not what God, Himself, did or even ordered anyone to do.
Feel free to persuade us that Jehovah is Love.because to us logical thinkers, God is NOT love. Not by a longshot… good thing this is all fantasy and tales of folklore written by barbaric ruffians.
All that violence that you are speaking about here? Man did it. Same as he always has, same as he continues to do today.
Sometimes he attributes that to God. Sometimes he just does it on his own.
But God asks us to listen to His Son... who teaches us the truth and shows us the truth of God. Christ killed no one. He harmed no one. He stood up to those who lied about God, who beat the people and loaded them up with burdens (like the wts does to their people now), and gives people LIFE. All the truth about God.
Peace to you,
tammy
