(November 21, 2017 at 1:14 am)Haipule Wrote:(November 21, 2017 at 12:39 am)Face2face Wrote: Don't forget Isaiah 45:7How in the HELL did you arrive at such nonsense from Isaiah 45:7? Are you a Hebrew speaker, or scholar? Or, did someone teach you how to be that brilliantly stupid? You shouldn't put words in God's mouth, or mind, He never said nor thought! In your defense, why not, everyone else does! And they went to school to learn how to be that BRILLIENTLY stupid! Language has rules! Language reveals intellect, intent and has context! If you said that to be funny: never mind!
God loves to murder humans
I can't speak to what Face2face was referring to, but Isaiah 45:7 does refer to the Yahweh character claiming to have created evil. And since evil acts often times lead to the murder and death of humans, the connection can be made.
But the thing is, there are plenty of other Bible passages where the Yahweh character does specifically order the mass murder of entire towns, so, there is that.
Deuteronomy 13:13-19 says to slaughter an entire town if one person in it worships another god.
Deuteronomy 13:7-12 says to kill your own family if they worship other gods.
Ezekiel 9:5-7 says to kill anyone in a town, men, women and children, if their forehead is not marked.
And those are just a small sample of murder ordered by Yahweh.
I can't imagine a worse universe, than one where this evil being actually existed. Too bad there are so many people on this planet who actually believe he does exist, and believe he is good.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
