Board Thread:Series general discussion/@comment-28601337-20170518051547/@comment-18014300-20170518185938

I'm not sure if I should say this, but from the actions and behavior of God in the Old Testament, he seems like a dictator extreme even for a Templar, demanding absolute obedience from followers and having no qualms about killing anyone on a whim, even Moses (who in spite of all he's done is doomed to not enter the Promised Land because he decided to strike a rock with his staff for water [the method God told him to use previously] rather than speak to it), for the slightest of transgressions. Massacres and genocides are repeated and advocated throughout the text. :-/ The crime of Saul that caused him to lose the favor of God was for sparing the king of the Amalekites when he was told to kill everyone (though I think Saul should've spared the women and children instead -_-). The Midianites, the tribe of Moses's wife, is massacred by the Israelites wholesale for "seducing them" even though Moses had married one... with the only Midianites spared, the virgin girls, being taken as slaves. I'm sorry... it was honestly more than a little appalling for me... so I disagree with the idea that he was a group of Precursors who wanted to help humanity.

I think he was someone who thought his intentions were good, but who was so fixated on the idea he was righteous that he believed in dominating the world through the most authoritarian of measures. Unlike many human dictators, he did not believe that terror was a means to order, but that fear was a symptom of respect, and perhaps unlike other Isu, he eventually came to see himself as a true God. I think Satan or Lucifer was a subordinate Isu who rebelled for Yahweh's abuses of power, but was ultimately not so different because he subconsciously craved that power as well, and moreover, while Yahweh believed in shepherding humanity, Lucifer believed that humanity should be exterminated or enslaved entirely (based on the Islamic account that he was jealous of them).

I like to think that if Yahweh the Isu survived into the days of Jesus Christ, Jesus had persuaded or inspired Yahweh to adopt a new, more positive outlook on how to help humanity, a more pacifistic path. Either that, or Jesus believed in the legacy of Yahweh, but even if out of ignorance, channeled that legacy into a fuel for pacifism and benevolence (only for it to be abused and corrupted at certain points in history by some radicals and extremists later as was Desmond's projected legacy should he have not saved the world).