Is christian God a collosal srewup?
By taurus54
@taurus54 (317)
Philippines
October 21, 2008 2:36am CST
Anyone who reads the Bible can see for themselves that he just can't do anything right. He designs an originally beautiful and immaculate creation which almost immediately becomes polluted with sin, suffering and death. Both times he tries sin, suffering and death. Both times he tries his hand at creating free will, his created beings immediately turn around and reject him. He chooses a people and continually attempts to redeem them from their fallen state, attempts which continually prove to be complete failures. He dispenses punishments for the evildoers and the wicked that utterly fail to stem the spread of evil and wickedness. He deals with crimes and transgressions by lashing out in childish rage, killing not just the evildoer but, often,all the innocent people around him. His final,crowning attempt to save the world from its sin was almost unanimously rejected by his chosen people. And his repeated promises to return to the Earth to set everything right have now been thoroughly broken. I find it impossible to believe that an omniscient and omnipotent deity, if there was such a being, could so consistently and thoroughly screw up; the contradiction between what this god is claimed to be able to do and what I am told he did do is so stark that it defies all reason that such a being could actually exist. But even if he did, such a sorry excuse for a deity would be deserving of no one's worship - which makes the audacity of his followers all the more incredible, to insist in the face of his long string of failures that he is a wise and loving ruler worthy of our adoration!
3 responses
@systems (459)
• India
21 Oct 08
Kindly check the website evilbible . com and you will find many things in it..
The list is very Big..
@systems (459)
• India
21 Oct 08
I really dont believe that bible is purely from GOD.. Bible may contain some message from GOD and I consider Bible is NOT HOLY..
Bible has been written by the authors by modifying the content copied from somewhere for their selfish desires of gaining attention, position and money..
If Jesus was a FACT, they why there is no reference to him in books of that era other than Bible..
If all were descendants of Adam and Eve, How did so many human races came into existence?
@taurus54 (317)
• Philippines
21 Oct 08
But, in any case, Yahweh was undaunted.Flush with pride at his "victory" over sin,he again took some time off to pat himself on the back. And when he returned, he noticed that the people of Earth had banded together and were building a mud-brick tower high enough to reach Heaven.
At this point, God could have moved his Heaven higher up - perhaps higher than the few hundred feet it must have been at the time - and enjoyed a hearty laugh at the silly antics of his creations. Instead,he panicked, expressed real fear that they would actually reach him and become as powerful as he was, and frantically responded by scattering the people of Earth, confusing and separating them by afflicting them with many different languages. (It should be noted in passing that God eventually forgot about this whole affair and allowed later humans to build much taller skyscrapers with no ill effects.)
Perhaps realizing by now that his large-scale plans kept failing, God decided to think small in his next attempt. He selected a man named Abraham, appeared to him, and vowed that his descendants would be the Almighty's chosen people, would enjoy divine favor ("And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee" --Genesis 12:3) and would inherit a great nation. Suitably impressed, Abraham left his home at God's urging and set out to the promised land.
God's promise passed from Abraham to his son, Isaac, who in turn had two sons, Esau and Jacob. As Isaac's firstborn, Esau was supposed to inherit the divine promise through a blessing, but Jacob deceived his dying father into giving the blessing to him instead. God, despite his omniscience, apparently was also fooled and honored the blessing, allowing Jacob to unfairly steal his brother's rightful place and become the sire of the chosen people. Jacob and his twelve sons became the Israelites, and the divine promise passed to them; Esau and his descendants, meanwhile, were condemned to live in the harsh desert and serve Jacob's descendants, setting the stage for millennia of ethnic hatred, strife and war.
However, Yahweh apparently forgot about his vow to protect and bless his chosen people, and they were almost immediately enslaved by the Egyptians. For several centuries, God's chosen people labored in bitter captivity,continually beaten by their overseers and forced into backbreaking work building monuments and hauling massive blocks of stone.Hundreds of thousands of innocent people were rewarded for their faith by living and dying as slaves, trusting in a deliverance that never came for them. And what was the reason for God's allowing all this? The Bible gives none. It does not say that the Egyptian captivity was punishment for any misdeed, nor does it say it was intended to teach the Israelites any lesson. As far as we know, it happened simply because God inexplicably failed to deliver on his promise.
@EvanHunter (4026)
• United States
21 Oct 08
Do you have children? If you do than I am sure you know what it is like trying to guide them in the right direction, especially if they are teenagers. They have free will from you all you can do is tell them the way to go and if they don't listen what can you do? You cant force them to do what you want all their lives. Its the same with us. Bad things happen because we make bad choices in a group or as an individual.
@urbandekay (18278)
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21 Oct 08
Taurus, it sounds to me as if it is your mind that is closed
all the best urban
@EvanHunter (4026)
• United States
21 Oct 08
My mind is closed??? LOL, thats funny. I have studied many religions and I picked whats right for me, never have I said that its right for anyone else but me again you take scriptures and point at the words as meaning literal things and don't look at the whole of anything. My point was this I have teenagers and they mess up, does that mean I am a failure at being a parent? No it means all you can do is your best as a parent for whats best for them the decision is up to them.
Numerous times you have tried to quote scripture and I tell you my interpretation and you tell me i am wrong. How could I be wrong, its what it means to me and you who don't believe in my beliefs want to tell me how I should interpret scriptures and that I have a closed mind??? I think you need to evaluate your own self and beliefs before you try tearing down someone else's, that seems very closed minded to me.
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
26 Oct 08
Why don't you explain to Him the correct way to handle things? And while you're telling Him, tell us also.