in defense (of a sort) of the chosen people, although the jews are called the chosen people, that is sort of a misnomer (within the context of the narrative) since it refers to the covenant between god and the jews. it's not actually a declaration that this (fictional of course) god loves jews better, or that jews are superior. (that's not even written into judaism.) it's the CHOOSING people we should be saying if we refer to that at all, since the covenant has two parties involved. judging by this fictional god's described character i'd say if the jews had turned him down, he'd have moved on to his second choice.

now about god is love: my objection, despite all possible explanations, is that there already is a definition, broad and flexible though it may be, for god or gods, and there is an equally broad and flexible definition for love. there is no need to go redefining either of them, especially as each other lol.

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This is generally taken to be an affirmation of god's omnibenevolence (his perfectly loving, kind, benevolent nature). As you point out, this nature is often asserted and not often exhibited in god's actual alleged behavior.

Just another of many inane catch all phrases used by Christians.....the same god presumably who talks about vengeance and smiting and taking “an eye for an eye”!

Here is a meme I made on that subject some years ago just to piss off Christians

How can god be love when he allows so much hate ,crime,destruction to occur. If this god exists he is very poor at attending his flock.

That's because the god of the Bible is modeled on Anu, the blood-thirsty alien Sumerian ruler depicted in the Sumerian texts, written 2000 years before the Bible, and on which much of the Old Testament is based.

But quantum physics says that all energy is connected and all energy responds to love, so I suppose in that sense "god" is love because god is US.

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“A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction.

Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.

Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.” – R.C. Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University , “The Mental Universe” ; Nature