You say God is the Canaan storm god. Do you have documentation from archeologist of the evolution of the God of the Bible coming from the Canaanite storm god? There is documentation that traces how Jehovah's witnesses and Mormons came from Christianity. You can trace how Christianity and Islam came from Judaism. So it should be traceable through documentation.
Another of your statements is that God made mankind imperfect and then will judge us. This is not supported by the biblical accounts. This makes me come to the conclusion that you have created a false god, either intentionally or unintentionally, in order to defend your desire to not believe. The truth is God created mankind to be without sin yet man chose to sin and still chooses to sin. He has given you everything you need to recognize Him as God and He will judge you not for what you don't know but what you do know and what you have done with that knowledge. Creating a false god to disprove the need for repentance, or simply for the sake of create an argument, will not save you. Your sin against the true and Holy God still stands. That is why today I invite you to repent and seek God's forgiveness for your sins.
Actually Num 5:1-11 does not say that and I discuss that here. Still let me repost it here since the font there is so small in my past post.
There are a great deal of things that are not explicitly spoken of in the Bible because the bible is mainly about how sinful mankind is and God's plan to redeem us. You are correct, some people are not consistent with the christian faith. Either they are in error and the Holy Spirit will make them aware of their inconsistency or they are not christian and only lying to themselves and others about their faith. Now as for picking and choosing I do use discernment to determine what should be followed, as it pertains to the bible, and my reasons are biblically based. If the world came together with no purpose whatsoever, then there is no right or wrong. You just pick and choose based on the society you live in now. Your reasons to condemn your idea of god is not based on anything that is absolute, it is as arbitrary as your reasons for morals.
I would say you are waging a war. It is plain to me even though it may not be to you, that you have enmity with God. You create falsehoods in order to justify your position. This will not cause you to win in your battle against God. He fully understands that you are His enemy and with that knowledge He still suffered and died for you, because He loves you. He wishes to correct your corrupted thinking.
You said that you understood the verses in the bible, but if you do you are under far more condemnation than if you didn't. If you do understand you are in blatant and willful disobedience against a good and Holy God, who has the right (as your creator) and power to put you in hell.
When you fight against God you are not on the side of righteousness neither are you on the winning side.
Another of your statements is that God made mankind imperfect and then will judge us. This is not supported by the biblical accounts. This makes me come to the conclusion that you have created a false god, either intentionally or unintentionally, in order to defend your desire to not believe. The truth is God created mankind to be without sin yet man chose to sin and still chooses to sin. He has given you everything you need to recognize Him as God and He will judge you not for what you don't know but what you do know and what you have done with that knowledge. Creating a false god to disprove the need for repentance, or simply for the sake of create an argument, will not save you. Your sin against the true and Holy God still stands. That is why today I invite you to repent and seek God's forgiveness for your sins.
Actually Num 5:1-11 does not say that and I discuss that here. Still let me repost it here since the font there is so small in my past post.
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I believe you are talking about Number 5:11-31. Is your explanation from your own interpretation or from someone else's commentary on these verses. Either way that is not what is displayed in the scriptures. The husband is just suspicious of His wife being adulterous. So he takes her to the priest. As God would know if she has been faithful or not. So it is God who will make her barren (if she was unfaithful), not abort her child, or show that the husband is in the wrong (if she wasn't unfaithful) by her not getting sick.
(let us talk about the bitter cup)
11 The Lord spoke to Moses: 12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: If any man’s wife goes astray, is unfaithful to him, 13 and sleeps with another, but it is concealed from her husband, and she is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her, and she wasn’t caught in the act; 14 and if a feeling of jealousy comes over the husband and he becomes jealous because of his wife who has defiled herself—or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he becomes jealous of her though she has not defiled herself—15 then the man is to bring his wife to the priest. He is also to bring an offering for her of two quarts of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it because it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering for remembrance that brings sin to mind.16 “The priest is to bring her forward and have her stand before the Lord . 17 Then the priest is to take holy water in a clay bowl, and take some of the dust from the tabernacle floor and put it in the water.18 After the priest has the woman stand before the Lord , he is to letdown her hair and place in her hands the grain offering for remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse. 19 The priest will require the woman to take an oath and will say to her, ‘If no man has slept with you, if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, be unaffected by this bitter water that brings a curse. 20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has slept with you’— 21 at this point the priest must make the woman take the oath with the sworn curse, and he is to say to her—‘May the Lord make you into an object of your people’s cursing and swearing when He makes your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.22 May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach, causing your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’“ And the woman must reply, ‘ Amen , Amen.’23 “Then the priest is to write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He will require the woman to drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause bitter suffering. 25 The priest is to take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, wave the offering before the Lord , and bring it to the altar. 26 The priest is to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar. Then he will require the woman to drink the water.27 “When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, and her thigh will shrivel. She will become a curse among her people. 28 But if the woman has not defiled herself and is pure, she will be unaffected and will be able to conceive children.29 “This is the law regarding jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority, 30 or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he becomes jealous of his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the Lord , and the priest will apply this entire ritual to her. 31 The husband will be free of guilt, but that woman will bear the consequences of her guilt.”
There are a great deal of things that are not explicitly spoken of in the Bible because the bible is mainly about how sinful mankind is and God's plan to redeem us. You are correct, some people are not consistent with the christian faith. Either they are in error and the Holy Spirit will make them aware of their inconsistency or they are not christian and only lying to themselves and others about their faith. Now as for picking and choosing I do use discernment to determine what should be followed, as it pertains to the bible, and my reasons are biblically based. If the world came together with no purpose whatsoever, then there is no right or wrong. You just pick and choose based on the society you live in now. Your reasons to condemn your idea of god is not based on anything that is absolute, it is as arbitrary as your reasons for morals.
Quote:Except you have to obey. God wants to love you. He wants to give you everything. He doesn't want to have to hurt you, but he will if you don't submit to his will.Obeying God is like obeying a good father. I have a good father and he was not out to harm me but to protect and love me. Not all authority is bad and when you are under good authority it is actually protective. Ps 136:1 says Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good. His love endures forever. The only ones God wrath will be against are all the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
Quote:If any being, god or alien or human, were to exhibit the traits described in the Bible (both the loving and the vicious), and was to actually come here and try to bribe me with the carrot-and-stick of paradise or vengeance (heaven and hell) in that way, I would defy it. I would wage war upon it, were it within my power to do so. And if you had not been brainwashed by your overgrown cult, you would defy it, too.
I would say you are waging a war. It is plain to me even though it may not be to you, that you have enmity with God. You create falsehoods in order to justify your position. This will not cause you to win in your battle against God. He fully understands that you are His enemy and with that knowledge He still suffered and died for you, because He loves you. He wishes to correct your corrupted thinking.
You said that you understood the verses in the bible, but if you do you are under far more condemnation than if you didn't. If you do understand you are in blatant and willful disobedience against a good and Holy God, who has the right (as your creator) and power to put you in hell.
When you fight against God you are not on the side of righteousness neither are you on the winning side.
