the flood event, as recorded in Scripture, looks nothing like Jesus.<\/strong> Does anybody disagree with that? You cannot find anything anywhere in the Gospels where Jesus acts or behaves in this sort of way toward anyone\u2014and especially not toward children.<\/p>\n I have talked about this with numerous people over the past couple years, and almost without fail, people who defend the divine origin of the flood point to Jesus entering the temple with a whip (John 2:15; Matt 21:12) as proof that Jesus was also involved in sending the flood.<\/p>\n
Really? Overturning the tables of a few greedy moneychangers is the same thing as drowning millions of babies? I just don\u2019t see it. The text doesn\u2019t even say anything about Jesus using this whip on the moneychangers\u2014or even on the animals! Oh, except for all the children. These Jesus whipped till they were bloody. NO! NO! NO!<\/p>\n
In my conversations about this, people usually then turn to the book of Revelation and point out how when Jesus returns a second time, He is going to kill so many people that there will be a lake of blood 200 miles wide and as deep as a horse\u2019s bridle (Rev 14:20).<\/p>\n
Yeah\u2026 I\u2019m thinking that if this is how we read the book of Revelation, we\u2019ve probably misunderstood the book.<\/p>\n
If Jesus is a God who drowns babies because \u201cThey\u2019re the devil!\u201d and then rides His horse through a lake of blood from His slain enemies because \u201cThey wouldn\u2019t worship me!\u201d (Duh! You drowned millions of their babies!), I\u2019m just not sure this sort of God is worthy of our worship.<\/p>\n
But I still follow and worship the God revealed in Jesus.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhy?<\/p>\n
Because Jesus doesn\u2019t drown babies. He doesn\u2019t slaughter His foes and then ride horses through their blood. And He never, ever, ever tells us to do so either. And since Jesus reveals God to us, this means that God doesn\u2019t do these things either.<\/p>\n
So what about the flood? What about Revelation?<\/h2>\n I\u2019m working on it!<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t yet share what I think about these texts, but one thing I know for sure: We will never<\/em> understand these troubling texts of Scripture, and we will never <\/em>understand God, and we will never<\/em> understand ourselves, unless and until we begin<\/em> with the realization that Jesus does not drown babies.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every once in a while, we hear on the news about a woman who kills her children because God told her to. <\/p>\n
We rightfully condemn such actions as having nothing to do with God and looking nothing like Jesus. <\/p>\n
But then we turn around and attributes the worst sort of violence and baby-drowning behavior to God. Why do we do this? Does Jesus really drown babies and slaughter his foes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2296],"tags":[1294,1430,1227,1680,1780,495,38,1523,1213],"class_list":{"0":"post-37537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-z","8":"tag-flood","9":"tag-genesis-6-8","10":"tag-jesus","11":"tag-looks-like-jesus","12":"tag-revelation","13":"tag-theology-study-god","14":"tag-theology-jesus","15":"tag-violence-of-god","16":"tag-when-god-pled-guilty","17":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n
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