The Bible Says So

[Drich]

Why do I have to find god?

Because he is hidden from you, as we are not born sinful but born to sin which seperates us from God. Otherwise If God's glory was an absolute, (You were perfect and could see God) you could not make the decision you were placed here to make. You would be overwhelmed by his love grace and the hope of a fulfillment in eternity with him as well as a fear of hell that would keep you from being honest with yourself. The question is do you want to serve God for eternity? I'm sure anyone could serve for a few thousand years without complaint but ultimately in the back of your mind or rather in the back of some minds an idea of freedom will over take you. Or at least that is what happened to 1/3 of the angels and Satan. And since we are no better than angels we can assume the same would happen to us.

So God gives us this moment out of eternity to choose to seek him, or to seek our self want and desire. without knowledge of his glory looming over us we are free to make this choice. If we seek and find God the choice is made for us.

As far as I've heard he's everywhere, and has an inside knowledge of me, why not save me directly for the error of my ways?

To what end? to drag you into heaven kicking and screaming? or to invite you in now and in 10,000 of cleaning up elephant poop in heavenly prades to rebell because you do not like to serve God in the only job you are tasked to do???
Why not take this life and decide once and for all whether or not you want to be a slave of God? If you think slavery is never a good thing thenyou might not like heaven.. So again why should God save you of your sins if heaven is 1700's american to your west african origins? Rather than capture slaves and drag them into service kicking and screaming God is providing each potential slave an opportunity to research life over there and how well we will have it (We as slaves over there will have it better than kings do here) Even so some may not want to serve.

Why would he use a book in one tiny area of the planet, ignoring the vast majority of the human race?

Who said he only used one book? what if the other parts of the planet simply rejected God and Jesus? See how Japan and china both greeted missionaries and converts to christianity.
In truth it is through Jesus the world is saved. Meaning because of what Jesus did those who did not know him (noah abraham David soloman Daniel as well as Tanaka Sobe or a big little foot or a james smythe or a koonta ponte all get judged by Christ Himself and not by the arbertairy rules of a religion.
(I am the way the truth and the light, no man comes to the father but by me.) meaning Jesus is the final judge not Christianity not judahism not any other form of religion ever. Christ and christ alone will judge us and our Serviceability. Did we honorably serve in this life with what God gave us, or did we throw away any knowledge or blessing?

Why would he let his message be written and twisted by corrupted faulty humans?

If you ever studied the bible there are hand written manuscripts that where written before the time of Christ ((hundreds of years) that verify books of the bible that were previously in doubt. the only changes would be grammatical differences given the time span and spelling errors. What changes do you believe you are talking about? As it is not we have 2nd and 3rd century manuscripts that have been vetted by many other sources. In fact last I saw there were over 25,000 different confirmed manuscripts that all confirm our holy Bible.

Why did Jesus not write the updated bible himself (why would a perfect being's bible need to be updated anyway), again allowing his message to be distorted by faulty humans? Why did he then have to send Mohammed to fix what presumably the Jews and the Christians got wrong ?

what's to write? He literally gave us 2 commands. Love God with all of our being and Love our neighbor as our selves. he said in keeping these two commands the whole law is full filled.

The reason for this was Jesus DID NOT WANT To Set Up Another Religion! He was looking for personal relationships, which will be different from group to group and even person to person.

Why does this book have to be interpreted & re-interpreted all the time

because it was not written in english.

causing so many different types of Jewish, Christian & Muslim groups?

Judaism is not an off shoot. Judaism was the original religion with rules and tons of laws. Jesus came to free us from these rules and laws as a way or a means to righteousness (being found right or up standing before the Father.) Once Christ died He took the law away as a means to righteousness and replaced our way to righteousness with love. love for God and love for our neighbor. Did the law go completely away? as a way to righteousness yes, but Jesus also said if you loved him you would keep his commands, not as a way to earn heaven but as a way to show your love to God.

Muslims/Mohamad did not like this lovey dovey crap.. He wanted strict rules and a return to a more brutal crime and punishment system as a way to control the people who followed him. So he set up that system to suit his people's desire to be ruled.

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So i can call you Gae?

Gae as the "Dae" is long..

For those of us living in the 21st century gay is not an insult. Some of us old farts even figured this out way back in the last century.
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yeah, but a gae bologna?!?! There is irony on 10 different levels here! when you are trying to represent yourself as a ultimate spear/God killing weapon.. (which is what his screen name means) but you conjure a mental image of a semi flaccid tube of gelatinatious gae snouts tails and pigs feet... can't help myself, not only that, he stuck with this screen name for the next year!!!

Plus these are not gay jokes the are gae like sundae jokes!!!