These represent just a sampling of the New Testament’s sweeping claims made in plain language. Some preachers seize on these passages as a kind of club, flogging the church for not taking them literally and faulting believers for having too little faith.
and in so doing, become the caricature of the “Old Testament God” the world foolishly draws. God is angry with you because you aren’t good enough, and you need to keep trying and trying if you want even a chance to please him, and he’s so capricious that even that will not work.
