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Good post except the Bible was never intended to be taken literally as it is all correspondences and by saying one thing, it really means something else. It would have been great if Swedenborg was able to translate more than the first several books of the OT but just reading his Arcana Celestia and then finding the same passages in the NT one can clearly see what I am saying, and also get a better understanding of what they are reading.

If you want to go as far as saying that the book is God's Word, then you have to say that EVERY book ever written is God's Word because we are all a part of him if you are a christian.

Anyway, lots of Hippocratic in religion.
Killing Abortion Doctors is at the top of the list.
Killing people who would not convert
Killing Muslims way back

Notice that reoccurring word?

Killing in the name of religion makes no sense and an All Loving God that will judge you in the end makes no sense and a God that loves everyone but hates Gays makes no sense........

If he made us all in his own image, then God is Gay and Straight and whatever other label you want to use because no matter what you believe, we are all one. There is only one root energy source and source of creation however you want to slice it up and argue about it.