If God really is violent, but Jesus revealed none of this violence, then the real lie is
Jesus hiding this side of God from us so that He appeared more loving and gracious than He truly is.
Not exact matches
It seems that in your view,
Jesus didn't actually mean what He told the disciples in the Upper Room, for if there is a dark
side to God, it was certainly
hidden in
Jesus during His ministry, which means that when
Jesus tells Philip, «If you have seen me, you have seen the Father» what He really meant was «You haven't fully seen the Father, only the loving
side.»
YoozYerBrain,
Jesus didn't
hide EVERYTHING from the dark
sided spirits.
I seem to be left with only two options: Either
Jesus truly is violent like God and He was
hiding this dark
side from us during His ministry, or
Jesus truly revealed God to us and the violent portrayals of God in the Old Testament are in error.