I planted rows of peas, by the first week of July I should've come up to my knees but they were maybe ankle high

I've been reflecting on love lately, and I've come to this: if we are to believe what the scriptures say (we really should), then God is love. If God is love, then God embodies all characteristics of one in love with something, right?

And someone in love is, in regards to the other person, ranged in their emotions--all within the typical arch of humanity. Now, it has been stated by both myself and others that we should not place human characteristics on God because he's above all things human and is simply pure existence. However, if he is just pure existence, then how can he have emotion? How can he smite and bring wrath upons the 12 Tribes without emotion?

From this, we can easily establish that since God has shown typical human emotions such as jealousy and rage and kindness and forgiveness, we can therefore say that God is something of a superman, as any Nietzchean would describe it--God is what we are but all things in their perfect sense. His forgiveness is perfect. His rage is perfect. Everything about him is perfect, but he also exudes human emotion. That's why Christ the deity was also Jesus the human who wept.

As a result, it is therefore absurd for a person to say that God is completely mean and cannot be a loving God. They say, "He's judgmental," and deny their faith. However, in love, are we not judgmental when what we want is best for our lovers even though they choose to go astray, making us angry? God is showing nothing but love to the Israelites in this situation.

They say, "God's a killer, he didn't have to kill all the [insert name of people decimated in Old Testament]. Hasn't he ever heard of diplomacy?" This one is rather tricky. However, I would argue that, in those times, as well as these times, coming into a foreign land and saying, "Could you please hand it over because our God [at this they may stop and say, "One God? How narrowminded of you!] said it was our land of milk and honey." Diplomacy doesn't work in a takeover. God said, "Take it as yours, leave nothing," and the Israelites did as they were told.

We could definitely look at this sexually, this whole murder thing because sex and murder are relatives of trust. Think of it this way: we allow our chosen lovers (within or without wedlock) to ravage our virgin skin and take from us all that was once all we were. However, in this sort of death, we become one with the person more and more, trusting that they are the one to be your companion for eternity. This is God saying, "Pillage my land," and the Israelites doing as they're told, trusting that their God won't leave them in a motel room on the road to Vegas where he promised they'd elope but really just was dragging you along to ditch you in Memphis where he was meeting up with his mistress.

God could have fooled us, said that the Land of Milk and Honey was everything that man would ever need, then turned around and showed the truth that was really the Sahara fucking Desert where nothing survives. It's all about trust. Killing is a trust exercise in God's eyes. It's like that whole, "Fall backwards into my arms," but instead it's, "Kill 100,000 Phillistines."

Therefore, God is simply the holistic embodiment of love. What we do out of love is broadened outwards towards the scope of God where 1000 years is like a day.

Then there's always the, "That was the Old Covenent God. Jesus is the lamb, the New Covenent." Yea, I still think that's bullshit... and for another time.