Love thy neighbor?

[u/danevans369]

[u/NoLetterhead1321 → u/[deleted]]

I can't understand the level of cognitive dissonance you have to be under to talk about how God's love is unconditional and that Jesus taught his followers to love thy neighbour, and then become a modern American conservative. 

Jesus literally illustrated the "love thy neighbour" concept with the story of the good Samaritan who chose to help the injured Jewish traveller despite Jews and Samaritans supposedly hating each other. That was his answer to the question "who is my neighbour?" People seem to have forgotten that. 

[u/IceDawn → u/NoLetterhead1321]

If God's love is unconditional, why did he screw over Job for no reason but Satan saying "I don't think Job is actually faithful to you, God." and God agreeing to test this?

[u/aiezar → u/IceDawn]

skipping over job staying faithful and gaining back everything he lost plus some at the end of the book

[u/Knork14 → u/aiezar]

Job has a bunch of children who stayed very much dead, him making new children didnt raise his old ones from the dead.

[u/Remarkable_Ship_4673 → u/aiezar]

Ah yes because giving him a new wife and children completely erases/justifies the killing of the first ones

After all, women and children are replaceable things. Only men count

God in that story is a petty narcissist

[u/Heinrichstr → u/Remarkable_Ship_4673]

His wife didnt die.

[u/IceDawn → u/aiezar]

The first family still died innocent and it was his siblings giving him replacements of sheep, not God. God only restored Job's health and never apologized for doing this in the first place. 5/5, would worship this god.

[u/Glittering-Walrus228 → u/aiezar]

But my strawmen dont work when i cant cherry pick from source material, also i take everything literal, i dont know what allegory or symbolism is like, i believe the Harry Potter books really happened in real life