God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most
violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.
Not exact matches
He wanted to show us that God's role in those
violent religious texts is not in the inflicting
of pain and suffering
of others, but in receiving and suffering that pain along with us.
In light
of my series this past week about the Bible, in which I said that the Bible is the most
violent religious text in the world, someone sent this picture to me.
While I do not consider myself an expert on all the
religious writings
of all
of the main religions in the world, I have read most
of the main
religious texts for most
of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find
violent events being described in these other
religious books, no other set
of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages
of the Hebrew Scriptures.
In light
of my series on the violence
of God in the Bible, in which I said that the Bible is the most
violent religious text in the world, someone sent this picture to me.