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Originally Posted by Ohio
I said all that in response to your comments here:
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And even more, can the OT God be trusted?
The key book in the OT to determine that is, the book of Job. The book of Job depicts God as completely untrustworthy. I think it's so clear to anyone with an objective brain that there's no point to do a exegesis on the book, and how God acted in it ... or is depicted in it.
So if the book of Job depicts God as untrustworthy, how much can we trust the book of Leviticus ; a book that doesn't apply to us? That's because the OT God can't be trusted.
The OT God is off the mark.
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What I said about God in the book of Job can be proven, using the same book.
Now God being off the mark? That's a subjective judgement. And it's difficult to explain. I look at it this way : We assume, with just a few verses, that we know what God approves of or not. But God is like your wife or husband, even with years of talking you still don't know all that's in him or her's mind, and really like many other systems of him or her's fleshly person. That's just the way it is, like it or not.
I like the Bible. It's a great book, and to me as well, is entertaining. For most of my life I looked at it like it's divine. Then I grew up, and began to see it as a human book.
Today I look at it in human terms and values. So I read Leviticus 18 with modern day human values. And a lot of chapter 18 makes sense, like sleeping with kinsmen, and kinswomen -- incest. And those statements in chap 18, match what we know about genetics today. But I don't see the homophobia verses as such. Genetics today disproves that homosexuality is just a choice that God can judge.
I personally see 18 as lacking all of God's thinking on the matter ; like the author(s) failed to write at the end, something like, "Love conquers all." Which means God realized that love between same sexes, overrides such condemnatory statements. Then God wouldn't be off the mark. We just don't know the mind of God.
And if how Job depicts God is accurate, then, God is a trickster God ... and all bets are off. God could mean Leviticus 18 ... or not. And looking a genetic evidence today, He doesn't.