RE: What would you do if you found out God existed
October 28, 2017 at 5:53 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2017 at 5:54 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(October 28, 2017 at 4:32 pm)Wololo Wrote:(October 28, 2017 at 2:32 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I am devoted to God because I believe God is goodness and love, and I believe human beings were made to be drawn to those 2 things, and find fulfillment in them.
Taking the premise that the god of the bible is real (a ridiculously large act, true), then objectively speaking that god is evil. These are a few the crimes he commits:
1) original sin for Adam and Eve eating the apple from the tree of knowledge, which damns all people forever to eternal punishment unless they declare abject slavery to his whim. What makes this one especially evil is that the eating of the apple was an act that yhwh forsaw and engineered to occur.
2) drowning the world because the people he made and ensured would act in a certain way acted in the way he decided they were to act.
3) ordering the killing all the men women and male children of neighbouring tribes, simply because they occupied (for many generations) land that he wanted his chosen people (who were genetically and culturally indistinguishable from their victims) to have
4) destroying utterly a town simply because some of the people inhabiting it were gay. Prior to that he allowed the "one virtuous man" in that town to allow his daughter be gang raped to death so that a stranger may be saved from a single rape, and post he killed vindictively the wife of the same man because she looked back at the destruction of the town
5) destroying the life of a man, killing his whole family and servants and ensuring he would not have a moment's peace for the rest of his life, just to win a bet
and finally and most heinously 6) condemning people to eternal and unremitting punishment people who committed such minor indiscretions as picking up sticks on a Saturday, not believing in him, using his name in an unpleasant way or even laughing at one of his prophets for being bald.
There is no possible way that you can say, honestly and truthfully, that your god is love, that he is compassionate, that he is just, that he is honourable or any thing that we consider in ourselves, flawed and imperfect, necessary as minimal requirements for being good. If your god is perfect in anything, it is in his evil.
But you're forgetting the biggest portrayal of God: Jesus. Jesus taught us to love everyone and to do good for everyone, even our worst enemies. He showed us the ultimate act of love, which is to give your very life to someone else.
I can't explain these stories in the Old Testament except to say they were written 10 thousand years ago by people of a very very different time. I am of the personal opinion that the Old Testament stories are all allegorical and not historical fact, and that Jesus came to set certain things straight. As a Christian I look first and foremost to Jesus Himself, His life, and His teachings. I believe He was God made man, so what better way to understand what God is like than through Jesus?
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh