How Can You LOVE GOD If You Don't Believe All The Bible ?

[MysticPhD]

Originally Posted by allenk893

This absolutely correct. You cannot be a lover of one and not the other. To truly know God is to be filled with the knowledge of life that can only be found in the good book. It fills you with the spirit and light of his word.

This typical platitude is completely devoid of reason or logic (or perhaps just an ignorance of what is actually IN the book). There is so much savagery and barbarity in the book that any claim that it would fill your spirit with love and light is preposterous. There are things in the book that COULD do that but, in general, the picture of God in the OT (if BELIEVED) is far more likely to fill you with fear, loathing and contempt, than love.

[zthatzmanz28]

How does one believe all the bible and still love a god of hate, bigotry and oppression?

[Peacegiver]

Originally Posted by Jerwade

If that is how you interpret it.
But I would rather live it.

Jesus defined spirit and truth as the word of God.

Jesus said; "The words I spoke to you are spirit and life."

Jesus said; (Father) "Consecrate them in truth.....Your word is truth."

[bluecheese]

If you believe the Bible to be literally true, I fail to understand how you could possibly love the evil deity portrayed therein?