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Psalms is a perfect example of why people are able to cherrypick the Bible and shape it to fit vastly different and even contradicting world views.
Side by side, you can find beautiful prayers and horrific curses, and you can pick and choose, based on how you picture the god you want to speak to:
- a loving, supporting, sustaining, nourishing force, or
- a vengeful, merciless, cruel authority.
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- Átkok, agresszív imák a Zsoltárok könyvéből: 4.1a2b Átkok, agresszív imák a Zsoltárok könyvéből
- Harari also distinguishes between two very different kinds of the Christian god: 4a1a-i-call-harari-s-two-gods-the-god-of-the-campfire-and-the-god-of-the-burning-pyre
- The Old Testament and The New Testament are also two very different kinds of scripture
- In The Handmaid’s Tale series, Emily made a remark that it’s very telling if The Old Testament or The New Testament sells better, and before the rise of Gilead, they sold much more copies of The Old Testament.
- See also the two kinds of restoring glory in the series The Glory. ref-netflix-the-glory