I’ve always said i would actually have no “beef” so to speak with that God, only if he didn’t present himself to be the superior, all powerful, all knowing, all seeing, all present and by far the most hilarious to me is omnibenevolent (all loving). An excellent point that @DarkestKnight made here is many of the pagan gods were ruthless and promoted war and killing too and i wholeheartedly agree with everything he said but it reminds me of an interview once conducted with Stephen Fry, he made an excellent point on this.
He gets to the point in this video after discussing the destructive and injust side of that God, he discusses the greek and roman gods. He states he wouldnt have a problem with that, why because they didn’t pretend to not be human in their apetites. Same goes with Odin and other beings they never claimed to be saviours, or all loving, superior beings. Yes they relished in their knowledge, their stature, their power, wisdom and strength but what you saw with them is what you got. A god of war was about war, a god of mischief caused mischief, a chaos deity caused chaos and so on.
However lets look at it like this then, a god that is super hypocritical, judgmental and portrays himself as something he’s not which is a all loving, merciful god. Let me ask you if a benevolent, merciful and all powerful being like that exist would it.
- Send Bears To Kill Children
- Turning Lots Wife Into Salt
- Comitting Genocide
- Ordering His Underlings to Kill Their Own Children
- Killing Egyptian Babies
- Killing a Dude for Not Making More Babies
- Killing People for Complaining About God Killing Them
- Everything He Did to Job
- Instructions For Slave Masters
How about one of the most vile ones ive ever read and ill cite the various sources for this, about you are blessed if you take the infants and children of the enemies of God and dash them against rock’s to death.
Psalm 137:9
“Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and adashes them against the rock!”
Psalm 137:9 — The New International Version
“Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks”.
And this goes on and on throughout several versions of the biblical text, the majority of the atrocities commited were literally ordered by God himself and no one can pull that bullshit of “it was the old testament” like come on really. A all knowing god didnt realise times would change, all loving god and all seeing god decided to become more politically correct, does he have to install an update every couple hundred years no not at all.
Lets keep going shall we …
2 Samuel 7:11; God, through Nathan, says he is going to punish David’s affair with Bathsheba by making all of David’s wives prostitutes. God making David’s wives prostitutes, despite what His own law said, is not moral.
Leviticus 26:29; God describes how he will punish people by making them eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters. Any God threatening to force people into cannibalism on their family is not moral.
Genesis 7:21–23; God drowns the entire population of the earth (except for Noah and his family): men, women, and children, both born and unborn, because they were “evil”. I don’t know how unborn children could be evil, but whatever. Killing the entire population of earth, including innocent babies, is not moral.
Deuteronomy 21:18–21; God demands we kill disobedient teenagers. Stoning disobedient children to death is not moral.
Exodus 21:20–21, Colossians 3:22–24, Ephesians 6:5, 1 Peter 2:18; God legitimizes slavery by saying it’s okay to own slaves and to beat them. Slaves are told to obey their masters just as they would obey Jesus, even if their masters are harsh. God blatantly supports slavery. Supporting slavery is not moral.
This is still not even a fraction of all the evil stuff, now i agree a lot of the bible’s evil is commited by man and sometimes of his own accord. However are we going to ignore the evil god did in the text, plus the disgusting acts of rape, m*rder, slavery, war, cannibalism and so much more he literally commands of his followers, forces them to do it otherwise they will suffer his wrath.
Personally when i approach a god of war, i know what he represents and ergo work with that force accordingly and cautiously, at least with that being what i see is what i get. At least he doesnt judge me and comdemn me to an eternal place of suffering, torment and torture, or even command for people like me to be executed. Now if God said
“I am he who condones war, rape, m*rder, slavery, suffering and the destestable things you cannot fathom” then okay fair enough, i mean its not for me but its honest. Rather he becomes a deceiving narcissistic and psychopathic liar, claiming to be merciful and loving, claiming to be the highest of the high and that he has the right to judge us.
I swear by every fibre in my being, heart, mind, body and soul, if i am wrong and this maniac is the one true god and i am to be judged. I will jump into the fires myself just after i spit in its deceiving presence and renounce him with pride. Id prefer the fires of hell over sharing an eternity worshipping such a capricious, evil, tyrannical, sickening god.
Another thing a lot of people like to do is argue about the time and culture, yes that applies to the people, not to the timeless god whos omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omnipresent and omniscient. He’s supposed to be a superior being if this is the best work of a loving, supreme, superior god then i am not impressed.
I respect your right to believe what you want, but you asked why ? You asked the people of this forum why we feel and think this way and here is my answer. So no excuses when it comes to the evil acts he commited or commanded his followers to commit of course excluding the atrocities man committed of his own accord which in comparison, doesn’t even compare to the evil this being did or commanded to be done.
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