Normally, you might be right. However, I'm not the one asking, OR DODGING questions. Good try.

You play the game your way (which is not at all, typically, or trolling when you do)

I'll play it mine

It doesn't matter which of the many examples I pick SW to be honest. We can pick apart each instance, but it will not change the overall picture that is painted. The OT God was a vengeful god, not a loving one.

 

Please realize that from my perspective, discussing the bible is no different than discussing any other literature.

 

I understand that the bible is just another work of literature to you. I get that, I don't have a problem with that, and I understand that we're having this conversation from that perspective.

However, you are attempting to show the inconsistency of my belief in the God I claim to believe in based on assertions people make from the bible.

I asked you for specific examples because, honestly, I encounter people all the time that are stuck in these broad-sweeping generalizations of God and the bible that aren't based on a whole lot of scrutiny, in my opinion. I asked you for your best example because I felt confident that when you step past the generalizations, every example can be shown to represent God in a more accurate light...revealing a true heart and a valid reason for why he did what he did. And in the process show that he is not a different "person" today than he was back in the OT.

I'm not arguing that to you the OT paints a general picture of a vengeful god. What I am attempting to show, through any examples you might choose, is that what he was back then is not any different than what he is now, because that is exactly how it looks to me from everything that I know.