Closet Blown Open
I am taking another step out of the theological closet. Here is what I confess to today: Any imagry of God as punitive, blood thirsty and genocidal offends my spirit and I believe the very nature of the one true Creator God whose love is revealed in Jesus Christ. I have never been at peace with the violent, evil stories in Scripture that paint my Papa as a wrathful being who wiped out innocent people for the wrongdoing of others. I have tried to walk in and have even promoted the excuses and rationalizations provided for me thus far to explain the seemingly bi-polar actions of this God. But I always come back to feeling a gnawing in my gut that something isn't right about this imagry. I can no longer accept these justifcations. I have never met the God that would require/demand for his creatures - which He created in love - to be cut open and dismembered to satisfy his wrath...Much less the God whose nostrils are pleased by the scent of the burning of this fle