Angsty Teenagers: The Bible is made up of feel-good fairy tales
The bible: Demonstrates stories that detail some human history, reflecting on our evil nature and the evil we commit against our creator and others, and how God often interacts with man in spite of that evil.
Angsty Teenagers: shocked Pikachu face but why is there bad stuff in there?!
Watch your head OP, the entire point is flying over it.
Theyve been quite clear what counts as good is what god commands. Which means those are all actually good. That also makes god’s goodness very meaningful.
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Makes me think of my favorite verse to quote in arguments: Pslam 137:9 - Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks (NIV).
Context is important. It’s a song of imagined - and not executed - revenge. The writer is wishing that what happened to their kids also happened to the invaders kids. The Babylonians dashed Jewish kids against rocks, and the Jews didn’t respond in kind - couldn’t in fact, because the Law forbade it.
Many details can be found here: http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com
At uni a friend of mine wrote a book review of the bible that began, “Not since Naked Lunch has such a dull book been saved by the constant barrage of sadomasochistic homosexual pornography.”
I might be interested in reading the rest of that review if it’s available to read online. That’s a great opener lol
