Haven't got anything intelligent to add! But this thread has been so enlightening.
The god of the old testamant and the Jesus of the new, they are not only not the same person, i dont even think they are the same species. How can those two be reconciled?
I was always horrified that the JWS would parade the story about Lot being willing to send his daughters out to be raped and murdered to protect the angel who in theory could have wiped out the whole nation in one night!
That and Job.. How did it make it all ok for him to lose 10 grown up children because he got some more... oh joys! And what about them? How is that fair, just because Jehovah did not intervene the devil supposedly wiped them all out.
As each day goes by I shake my head more and more that I was so gullible. The bible reads like a grimms fairytale and is just as realistic.
Poppy