The God of Philosophy and the God of the Bible
A question that has been bothering me for a long time. I really can't find a connection between the God of philosophy who created the world 14.5 billion years ago. A God who gave validity to the rules of morality and commands us to act according to them. And the God of the Bible who created the world in seven days, commanded to destroy all of Amalek because they decided to disbelieve in God, to conquer the seven nations because they simply lived here, and so on. The excuses about the age of the world don't really hold water (this day is not our day, the first Adam was a few more people, and other ridiculous explanations like Elohim and others), saying that the main thing is the messages, etc., also sounds absurd to me, because throughout the entire Torah we, or rather Chazal, are meticulous about every nonsense they find, and the general attitude is the words of the living God. In addition, it is not clear to me why the same magician god who opens the seas, creates worlds and brings 10 plagues, could not expel the seven nations in a normal way, but had to order us to kill them all. There are many more questions, but these are the main points: Why would God lie and write all kinds of stories that did not exist and were not created? Second, how can we identify him with the God of morality?
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- I don't understand what there is to connect between a philosophical God who created the world and the religious God. These are two faces of the same being.
- If you mean differences in their approaches, I don't know what approach you see in the philosophical God who created the world.
- And perhaps you mean the God of morality, this is a question of morality and halakha, and I refer you to column 541.
- God does not do things himself in the world but rather hands them over to us. The reason is unknown to me, but I do not see why it should interfere. He could have done anything in our place. He decided for his own reasons that these are the tasks that are incumbent upon us. This is the discussion between Turnus Rufus RA in 2:9.
- When you write stories that convey messages, it's not a lie. It's an accepted way to convey messages.
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