Lol? Read Matthew 21:18-46
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ddplf@szmer.info 2 weeks agoI think you’re confusing the testaments, Jesus was ultimately a great guy as far as I can tell. The God used to be extremely cruel and vengeful in the old testament, though.
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
ddplf@szmer.info 2 weeks ago
I never told you he wasn’t goofy, ay!
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
… my original comment was a beat for beat parody of that passage…
ddplf@szmer.info 2 weeks ago
You’re right, I somehow must’ve been distracted when replying to your second comment and totally lost a grip on what we were talking about
otterpop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is a common misconception, if you dig into it you’ll see that God is basically the same in both old and new testaments. Nobody talked about hell more than Jesus.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You mean Gehenna, the literal place that was just a garbage dump around the corner? “Don’t go to that place, man, it sucks. Somebody lit a trash pile on fire two weeks ago and it’s still burning now. It’s gross.”
Or did you mean Hades, the place John (no, not that John (probably)) wrote about many years after Jesus’s death? In the book of Revelation, the whole of which is full of obvious symbolic imagery? A) not Jesus and B) still not “hell”.
Ohhhhh you were talking about Dante Alighieri, the guy born twelve hundred years later, who invented our modern concept of hell whole cloth.
“Hell”, a translation of any of the three words Gehenna, Hades, and Tartarus, show up anywhere between 13 and 23 times in the entire new testament. That wide range is due to differences in translations and source texts.
Nobody talks about Jesus talking about hell more than modern preachers who profit off of making people fearful. You know, the exact people Jesus would have thrashed out of the temple with a whip.