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I've got a Bible next to me that is 125 years old.
big deal.

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Heck, almost every living thing on earth gets wiped out in the flood. This is justice is it? If you sin you get killed or sent to hell?

yep, justice. Did you read the part where God sais he grieved he had done it? I guess not. But for you, maybe you will die of some terrible terrible plague spread via vaccines or chemtrails. Watch your daughter die too. And for your sake, God willl not stop the perpetrators or kill them for your sake, so you can suffer at their hands. Sounds like a plan. A plan for people like you who know better than God.

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All I see here is rule through fear and punishment, and those not among the "chosen" had better watch out. It's justification enough for religious crusades isn't it, so why do you think there aren't more of them today?
You see fear and punishment because you are an enemy of God. If you had read the darn 125 year old bible instead of just fawning over it all day you would have noticed how many times God punished his own people, more so than the others. Most of the crusaders of the 11th century or so had never read the bible. They were taught by the Catholic chuch, a lot like you. You seem to have a lot in common with them. Are you going on a crusade soon?

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The sort of Catholocism that my family practiced was based more on the New Testament. A little love and forgiveness go a long way.

could have fooled me.

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But really, if you think about it, this is all pretty incomprehensible if you see God as truly omniscient. He knows before you are born what is going to happen to you. He knows whether you are going to heaven or hell. He knows what sins you will commit and how you will or will not be punished for it. Why would he bring so many people into the world whom he knows are going to be wicked? And why then would he wipe them out, say, in a flood? Isn't there an element of futility here somewhere? Why, also, bring "infidels" into being who are going to get slaughtered by the Israelites, who are the only chosen people? Goodness me, I'm glad God seems to have decided to stop killing and cursing non-Israelis, or a lot of us would be in trouble.

every single wicked person, that's everyone far as I know... has a lifetime to do one little thing... just one little thing is all God asks... repent and ask forgiveness. I guess you missed that part in your love and forgiveness new testament upbringing. How can it be?

We must have 2 very different bibles. mine is mostly a story about the Jewish people, going into slavery coming out of slavery going into slavery coming out of slavery going into slavery coming out of slavery ... how come yours is full of so much information about other cultures? Are you sure that is not a quran you've got over there?