God Caused Terrible Things In the Old Testament: And Christians Believe It.

When I was beginning to question my Christian beliefs, perhaps for quite a number of years, I often was appalled when someone pointed out the injustices God caused upon the people. Some even pointed out that the Devil directly caused far less evil in the world, though I could argue that he did far more because he was the reason for man’s bad nature in every evil deed throughout history. Nevertheless, I was always one of those Christians who jumped to the almost cliche answer that the Old Testament was a different time period and the people who wrote it were more barbaric than that what came after Jesus. Further, Jesus changed the old laws when he started the whole timeline of Christianity long ago. While of course many would say that there is a clear example of God having the ability to change morals in human history, I’ve found something that would not only make a check-mate on the issue of whether the Old Testament is merely a different time period of morals and people, but show that canon law needs to be questioned.

It’s quite simple though. The Catholic Catechism uses basically every book from the Old Testament to explain why it holds something as a specific law. Though, if the Old Testament is to be forgotten because it is a different time, why should these canons be considered truth? Accept these canons and then you would need to accept everything in the Old Testament books as well. At the same time, the Church no longer thinks of allowing anything as brutal as the genocides in the older books. Here is a change in what a supposedly morally objective God allowed or at least a picking and choosing method of what God sanctioned.

Throw away the Old Testament and Canon Law is no longer infallible.