The Christian God is NOT simple.

[Judas BentHer]

I do love it when they do this and they only seem to say this when the debate about God's existence gets into defining his character. Otherwise, they will fully claim to not only know the will of God, but to be living examples of it.

It does seem a common occurrence among some Christians. I met a full on Texas Fundy once who aspired to be a minister. He shared his parenting experience was based on Bible tenets as god's will that he be responsible for raising a god fearing child, a son, of the future. Which included letting his boy suffer an attack by red ants that had built a home in the corner of their back yard. This Fundy father had said he'd told his son about them and instructed him to stay away, and yet the child's free will caused him to disobey and he suffered the consequences. Bites all over his little bare feet legs and buttocks. His screams drew his dad's attention to the suffering that dad saw fit to save him from. Only later to discipline the child for his disobedience, as if the ants weren't punishment enough.

The baby boy was 3.

So after he shared that I mentioned he had assumed the same attitude as did his god in Genesis, punishing Adam and Eve for their sin of disobedience and all the generations that come after them, for that one finite mistake. Asking, how could a all powerful eternal god eternally punish his children for one error and not forgive them if he truly loved them. How could he then later drown the whole world because of the burden of sin he, god, cast upon them by his free will which demonstrated wrath as superior to compassion?

His answer?

He's god. He can do whatever he want's with his creation. Who are we to judge god?

In my travels I've found that most of the vocal committed Fundy Christians I've met have actually never read their Bible cover to cover. They rely on ministers, they thumb through from time to time as if it's an oracle that will guide them in times of need, but they've never read the entire book. And they've certainly never stepped back and critically reviewed the characteristics of god, which isn't hard to ascertain considering god brags about his deficits, so as to realize he's not only the universal abortionist, and was never pro-life, as those lot are hand and hand with hypocrisy in Fundamentalist values, but he's also the universal sinner.

Of all the faults humans are led to believe are that what builds a barrier between themselves and the divine, of all that list of those 7 deadly sins, the one entity not only in the Bible but in the Christians world and universe, as they believe god is omnipresent, that is black as night with the burden of evil and sin through and through, it's their own god.

And in their ignorance of that, they love him for it.

What really blows their wig back is when it's noted that according to the Bible, Satan has a higher moral standard. Thus, he's far less a sinner.

Of course at that point is when the most devout Fundy roll their eyes in the back of their head as if looking for a means of refuting that fact, after which all they can come up with is the quaint retort; well, when you find yourself burning in hell you'll know who the real sinner is!

As I can't resist watching the backwards eye roll I usually reply with: Oh but dear, Hell is for Christians.Those damned sinners and those who's names were not included in the Book of Life and are now this very minute screaming; BUT WE WERE SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB! THIS SHOULDN'T BE HAPPENING TO MEEEEEEEE! Looks like Jesus was a liar too huh? Like father like son.

That usually shuts them up. At least so far.
One has to set aside the intellect in order to voluntarily choose to be a sheep.