[Milton-L] Justify God?

[Carol Barton]

Thank you for pointing that out, Larry. Actually, I was thinking (but didn't say) the same thing: that was, after all, the point of Milton's "justification": that the Father *was* both good and benevolent, even when he seemed most harsh.

Carol Barton

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  From: Larry Isitt 
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  Carol Barton writes:

  The Yahweh of the Old Testament was a very harsh, very unforgiving deity, who (like his Greco-Roman predecessors) often seemed to behave in arbitrary ways . . . which didn't square at all with the New Testament's perception of a benevolent and merciful Logos.

   

  What does not square is this description of God whose loving and forgiving character is the same in both testaments. There are multitudes of passages in the OT speaking of God's love and forgiveness for Israel's sins.

   

  Larry Isitt

  College of the Ozarks

   
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