Reading material & theology

[kishiriadgr]

Despite my doubts, I have nonetheless put the little paperback Bible I showed in a video earlier into my backpack. I'm up to 2 Kings and am finding the Old Testament far more disturbing and alien than ever before. I'm feeling strongly that this may have been Jesus's history--but it's not mine. It may be necessary for understanding the world of

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[brotherskeeper1]

I am going to miss you ... I hope you can post on LJ from time to time. Are you taking a military transport plane or civilian airline? If you were refueling at SAFB I'd certainly be there to see you. I can go back to the flight line.

I've always had a problem with the God of the Old Testament being so punitive and harsh and along comes Jesus teaching he and God/the Father are one. Of course we know the law of Jesus is love and that's what he taught plus a life of service to others, etc.

But truly, sometimes it is truly difficult to reconcile these two persons of the trinity.

All I was told re: the situation was before there could be love (Jesus' teaching) there had to be justice. That created more problems for me. Jesus said he came to fulfill the law not to abolish it. Yet we see "An eye for an eye" from the OT in direct conflict with "Turn the other cheek." Sometimes I don't feel like sorting it out. Yes, there are the cultural differences of how the people of the Mid East in the time of the OT and Jesus viewed things which is different than us Westerners wanting to analyze things to death.

[kishiriadgr]

We're flying to Georgia tomorrow. We'll be at Ft. Benning for the week, then going to Kuwait next Saturday. I expect the next week to be the worst part of the deployment, and figure part of my misery is having flashbacks to Basic Training. I keep telling myself I'm not going back to Alpha 1/20 (Reception) but this is going to be a lot of the same stuff. I'll be able to read my own books while waiting in lines, though, and when the day is done, my time is my own.

Benning has WiFi in some buildings, and at Arifjan I'll have it in the barracks, so I expect to be online as much as I normally should when I'm working 9-5.

Thank you for the kind thoughts--we are now going to get some Greek food and visit seki_raku.