Is YHVH good, evil or somewhere in the middle?

"This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt.

Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

( 1 Samuel 15:2-3 )

>>40624568 (OP)
Can (You) speak His name in vain? Did (You)?

Good but you have to be jewish rather than christian. And ascribing to a jewish interpretation of him rather than a christian one. And the most important thing to understand is that in Judaism the Torah is not taken literally. In Christianity it is, but not Judaism. That's why there's the Talmud. The Talmud is, in effect, one long exercise in demonstrating all of the ways that the Torah can be questioned, twisted, perverted, or outright wrong about something. So what you're left with, in the end, in Judaism, is this outright liberal interpretation of YHVH that essentially leaves humanity with this knowledge only, "there is a benevolent, powerful force in the universe which we know as 'God'"

And that's it. And everything else is a matter of opinion or up for debate. Now if you buy into Christianity its not like that. Because Christians have Jesus whom they believe to be a messiah. And Jesus Christ gave them way more information and brought a ton of more concrete doctrine to religion.

God is a word

And this >>40624590 also is why you will see Christians trying to say the Earth is flat, or that its only 10,000 years old and evolution is fake, and all of these other things. But you VERY RARELY see jews doing that. This is because Christians implicitly need to take the bible far more literally than jews do.

>>40624596
Orthodox Judaism takes Bible literally

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>>40624596
Another important factor is that there is no hell in Judaism. There's no information within Judaism which pertains to any sort of solid claim that YHVH is condemning his own creations to a lifetime of torture and suffering for the very qualities that he, as the creator God, endowed them with. That is an idea exclusive to Christianity and it is an aspect of Christianity's terrible immorality.

>>40624598
Yeah youre able to interpret the torah any way you want in Judaism. And that includes anything in the range of taking it super literally to not putting much emphasis on it at all. But if we're talking about Orthodox jews, the ones who do take it very literally, then its important to note that they're only like 5% of jews. So bigtime in the minority.

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>>40624602
Now ONE more thing to note here is the idea of "Yirah". Which is the hebrew word which references the fear of God in the old testament. Now to jews, this word has more a connotation of awestruckness than it does some kind of cowering terror. Whereas once you get into the new testament the translations are all different, and the christian bible is telling you to feel regular, plain old "fear" for the Christian god. Now that's just an important difference as well, I feel. And furthermore with Judaism you have things which delve deeper into this concept with Kabbalah and whatnot. Within Kabbalah we generally tell people that a God fearing attitude is not necessary. OR not necessary for people who are decent human beings, anyhow.

>>40624602
>When some Jews take Bible literally it is no big deal and shows how versatile and open to many interpretations Torah is.
>When some Christians take Bible literally it is this horrible thing that disproves the entire religion

100% evil. Literally a world-devouring parasite.

>And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

>So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

>And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

>>40624568 (OP)
>Is YHVH good, evil or somewhere in the middle?
Let's say your premisse is YHVH existing as described in Bible lore.
Then the concepts of good and evil are not appliable.
It is not really appliable because good and evil are relatives, and supposedly YHVH is The Absolute.

>>40624568 (OP)
It is that which forms and governs mortal reality; a force to be respected but not treated as a moral exemplar. Jesus Christ is the moral exemplar sent by the Immortal One.

>>40624568 (OP)
Jew god is evil just like his disgusting people