issuevoter wrote on Mar 17
th, 2018 at 12:43pm:
Probably the stupidest concept associated with the God of Abraham is that
He will do bad things to you if you don't do as He says.
Its has all the pettiness of Human creations. Daddy's going to get the strap out, you bad child. Those dirty bastards who died having screwed people all their lives don't pay for their sins, they got off scott-free.
Now don't even bother to respond with my interpretation of the God of Abraham is wrong. Its been the same stuff thousands of years.
I can't let that stand without a response.
It is not,
'He will do bad things to you if you don't do as He says.'But rather,
'Don't do what you know is evil, if you want my favour.'And many verses in scripture adequately attest to that stance,
by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, towards men.
e.g.
Scripture plainly attests, that
in the judgement, being a Jewish person, or being a church attending Christian,
counts for
zero with God.
Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Rather, the God of scripture, states time and time again,
that he will have respect towards those who are fair, and righteous, in their dealings with their fellow man.
Exodus 23:7
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but
in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Deuteronomy 1:17
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them;
then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Deuteronomy 16:18
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
2 Chronicles 19:6
And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
7 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
Psalms 34:14
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah 48:17
Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Jeremiah 22:3
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood....
Jeremiah 9:24
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth:
for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
Acts 10:34
Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:35
But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.Romans 2:11
For there is no respect of persons with God.
Romans 2:28
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Romans 12:18
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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Isaiah 55:6
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and
let him return unto the LORD,
and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
....which was also Jesus message to the men of his time.
And lots, lots more.