I am just looking for an alternative source of proof

LOL

"I'm looking for an alternative source of proof but you can't use everything we already know"

prove to me the earth is round

you can't use any scientific evidence provided by NASA

My point is that I cannot consider the Bible as a legitimate source of proof

So, let me rephrase

Why is the Bible a legitimate source?

it's a historical document

a massive, cross-referenced historical document

you literally can't have anything better

What about the fact that God acts like two different characters in the Old and New Testament?

I honestly am searching for answers

new covenant

Ok, lemme Google that and search for a big

*bit

as in

Jesus brought us the new covenant

honestly tho if you insist on being skeptical about it you'll never find God, because you need faith

no "proof" will ever be good enough

He's trying to ask an honest question so let's not be hard on the guy

From my denominational perspective the Church is older than some parts of the Bible anyway

Here is my argument to you @Deleted User

Nothing in existence is self created. You cannot be your own father

Therefore everything that exists, is created, by something that logically must have existed prior.

So God created the Universe. That I can agree and believe

That puts us in an infinitely backwards timeline with no beginning

But everything has a beginning

Cross references of the Bible. https://philosophadam.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/the-first-hyperlinked-text-the-bible-and-its-63779-cross-references/

So, the only logical explanation for how anything can exist, is that some being must have existed before everything else

This doesn't tell you WHICH god of course

And the only way this can work is to accept that if a being can create all existence, then that being must be above any laws of nature, time, physics, etc and powerful far beyond human understanding

That is the only way the universe can exist. It cannot create itself.

As far as NT vs OT... remember the NT covers a very short time period.

The OT covers literally thousands of years of history

If God gets really pissed off say once every hundred years...then you might see his anger 10, 15, 20 times or more in the OT, but never in the NT

I’d count Jesus flipping tables and whipping people as God getting angry.

Yeah fair enough

But I was thinking of destruction of entire countries

Ah. Right.

And considering the redpill prescription you have Sagif, one pill 3x a day, then God ordering the mass slaughter of sand nigga pagans should not bother you anyway