Jesus seems to hate some things. Do you? Is hate good?

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Matthew 11:20

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Matthew 11:20

Wouldn't you condemn towns where adulteresses were stoned and men fantasized about killing gentile babies?

No. I wouldn't condemn an entire town and all it's inhabitants no.

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Matthew 11:20

Wouldn't you condemn towns where adulteresses were stoned and men fantasized about killing gentile babies?

No. I wouldn't condemn an entire town and all it's inhabitants no.

Dissenting townspeople could have followed Jesus into the Kingdom of Heaven. Instead, they chose to sit quietly among the unrepentant.

He condemned Capernaum, but it remained inhabited for 1000 years. He healed the centurions slave there, and Simon Peter's mother in law. Yet he curses the whole city? How petulant.

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Probably not helpful to post a quotation from Genesis which is the same book in which the entire world is wiped out in a flood. Again, something I wouldn't do.

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Unfortunately for the world, there were fewer than ten righteous men in the whole joint. Those there were, however, were saved.

You're conflating the Flood story with the Cities of the Plain story.

No, I'm extrapolating: If God would spare an entire city for the sake of ten righteous men, how far beyond redemption was the antediluvian world?

Why does god end violence with greater acts of violence? Again, why is his response always disproportionate? Why are we more temperate and measured in our response to slights against us?

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Why does god end violence with greater acts of violence? Again, why is his response always disproportionate? Why are we more temperate and measured in our response to slights against us?

Lamech killed a young man for striking him; that was the state of humanity before the Flood, after God preserved Cain's life in spite of the demands of earthly justice. As a thanks, we initiated a cycle of bloodletting that had no conceivable terminus. Global baptism was the only cure.

And god sent she bears to kill 42 children for making fun of a bald prophet. He slaughtered children for doing what children do. Again, why is god so agressively inhuman and disproportionate in his responses? Why do we display better core moral restraints?