The Problem of Imperfect Revelation: Your Thoughts?

[YahwehIsTheWay]

You sent this message to my evil twin, DeistPaladin, but I thought I should be the one to reply.

P1) God (Yahweh) is an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent being (the Greatest Conceivable Being or GCB) that exists in the actual world and is the perfect & uncaused creator of the universe.

OK, from the get-go, you may a lot of attributes to the Lord Yahweh that have more to do with the assertions by dumb-ass phony Christians who've never picked up the Wholly Babble except to carry it around with them in church like some kind of Hollywood prop.

Yahweh is not omnipotent.

• The Lord really needed a breather after creating the universe. On the seventh day he needed to rest. The Bible specified that "he was refreshed" by this act of resting (Exodus 31:17).
  
• The Lord tried to wrestle with Jacob and lost (Genesis 32:24-30).
  
• The Lord was frightened (or at least worried) by the people of Babel building the tower that would reach Heaven (Genesis 11:6).
  
• The Lord couldn't conquer the people of the plains because they had iron chariots (Judges 1:19). Apparently, iron is like Kriptonite to the Lord.
  

Yahweh is not omniscient
My favorite example is where Yahweh needs to go check out Sodom and Gomorrah to see what's going on.

Gen 18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

Yahweh is not omnibenevolent
I'd almost need to read you the entire Bible to really make this point. Our Lord commanded genocides, provided regulations for slavery, admonished slaves to obey their masters and peasants to obey their kings, he provides rules on how to rape your sex slaves and he commands the killing of infants.

Further, not only does he eternally torture those who do not kiss His holy ass for all eternity, he seems to relish the idea and has hardened the hearts of the unbelieving trash like yourselves to that he can satisfy his sadistic glee on Judgment Day (better you than me, I say).

Romans 9:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

2Thes 2:11-12 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Eph 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

P2) God's actions are, by necessity, consistent with his holy and perfect nature as the GCB.

Well, sure, if you define good, holy and perfect as what conforms to the will of the Lord. But this is a tautology, that the Lord wills what the Lord wills. Still, such reasoning is good enough for us Christians.

P3) God desires (or intends that) that we - his special creations - join him in Heaven by accepting certain propositions as being true and living in a certain way, which are enumerated in holy texts that God directly inspired to would be prophets and followers.

See above where I outlined certain passages in Holey Scripture where the Lord makes it clear that he's already predestined certain people to burn forever in Hell.

Now it's not my place to question how the Lord gets his kicks. I can only assume he's working out his sexual frustrations after the ancient Jews took away his wife Ashra and made him one-of-a-kind (going monotheistic). He's only gotten laid once in the last 2000 years. Can you imagine what that must do to any man, let alone a god with a great big fiery pecker.

Ezek 1:27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

So the Lord sublimates his sexual frustration by torturing godless trash like yourselves.