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So your solution is essentially, "let's ignore how Yahweh is portrayed as a moral monster in the Old Testament and focus on Jesus because it's easier to highlight his pleasant aspects." The problem with this is that Jesus, as portrayed in the Gospels, clearly believed in the Yahweh of the Old Testament and never objected to the genocidal monster we see there. According to the New Testament, the Old Testament accurately portrays Yahweh the way he wanted to be portrayed. Additionally, according to Christian theology, God cannot change (i.e. a perfect being cannot change because any change could only move them away from perfection). Therefor the God (and Jesus too if you accept mainstream trinitarian theology) of the New Testament is the exact same person who delighted in bloody genocide in the Old. No excuse, either from you or from the authors you cited, has ever come close to justifying for me the horrors perpetrated by the Biblical God.

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