The backbreaker

[FebruaryOfReason]

He does not need permission. If He wanted to create a rock so big He could not lift it then he can

Presumably he could also then make exactly the same rock liftable without changing anything at all about it or himself? You realise what total bollocks your talking, don't you? A being totally beyond logic, which conveniently excuses your need to explain the massive inconsistencies in what you're saying?

You're talking about a God who could intervene any moment to stop all suffering, but chooses not to. A merciful god who lets two year old children drown in front of their mother's eyes in a tsunami, while allowing Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung - who both murdered millions - to die of natural causes at a ripe old age?

Why does he do that? Why not just forgive us our sins? Why bother with the whole Jesus bollocks?

Aren't the observable facts far more readily explained by the non-existence of God?

You can spend forever arguing about minor linguistic points, but you can't change the fact that the bible contains only
a) Things which were known to laymen at the time, and
b) Baseless assertions which cannot be investigated, and which would be just as enduring if they were substituted for any other baseless assertions that could not be investigated.

In other words, again, the observable fact about the bible is that it is far more readily explained as a work of fiction than as the work of an omniscient being. There are no inconsistencies in the former position, but to believe the latter you have to abandon logic, and even abandon self-consistency.