Surprisingly... the jury is out on that one. Cant's say how Yahweh would feel about you.

The old Testement God, is not who he appears to be all of the time when his behavior is re-interpreted by modern Christians.

I tried reading a really good transaltion of it, the Oxford New Revised Standard Edition (Where the oldest of all possible texts found were translated by the best linguistic historians found by Oxford university). Then tried reading rabbinical commentary from a Torah my father had a copy of, found the Mishna, read it, then read parts of the Babalonian Talmud that weren't too exhausting.

I tried to read it after studying OTO intensively for years, keeping books like 777 at my side for reference.

My conclusion is this. Yahweh likes who he likes, shows mercy to who he likes. They can fuck up, perhaps they will set off a chain of events for their fuckups that generations will suffer for but God will show them mercy and even honor. For instance King David, setting up a trusting troop to die in a battle just so he could get dibs on his buddy's wife. Yahweh punishes it, but continues to honor David, doesn't keep him from having another son with her or making that son into the king.

Other people Yahweh just doesn't like at all, no matter how "good" they are. It is written in places that sometimes this god will actually give good fortune to the wicked to ensure their eventual destruction will be that much more profound. In some cases, he doesn't want certain people to be humbled or ask for mercy, but wants them to remain proud and blind, just because he don't like em.

I mean, really. If you think about the story of Cain and Abel. Cain's sacrifice wasn't all that bad. He was sacrificing real food he could have eaten (and he wasn't prospering), Abel was sacrificing a creature when people didn't eat meat. Cain saw clearly God favored Abel.

You know that is the real crux of all biblical history from that point on. Yahweh plays favorites, how or why is debated, the events of who is favored and who is utterly fucked out into the cold is detailed.

This circumspect arguement thus outlined: it's clear that Yahweh might indeed like or approve of you or might hate your guts not according to what you do, but how he feels. And really if you consider love between two people, that isn't necessarily illogical. Nobody can be "good" enough to earn another person's love, nobody can bribe it, a person's love can overlook flaws in those they love and have nothing but revulsion for the same flaws in someone they don't love. It just makes God very... human.

Don't take me for a missionary, I don't worship Yahweh, just Kvetch to him alot.

The jehova or yaweh of lore would probably not like any of us. Like RETARIVS points out, we probably don't burn or bleed enough cattle for his tastes.

I guess I meant that in a more symbolic way. I am thinking of you all as gifts from (or of) the source. Creating synaptic connections, synchronistic connections.

So on this eve of Mammon's favorite night, thanks for the gifts :)