(August 27, 2013 at 8:53 am)Drich Wrote: The vast majority of the problems you have with genesis is that the God depicted in the bible does not align with the picture of God you hold in your mind. In short you were never taught to worship the God of the bible. You were given a picture of God in your religion, and assumed it is correct. But, when you compared that religious picture of God to what is written in the bible, you found it to be in error.
Your problem is not with Genesis. It is with who you think God to be, and because you can not reconcile your personal understanding of God with the description of God found in the bible, you assume the bible is in error. If you took the time to take an honest look at the God of the bible and build your understanding of God off of the bible alone you would not find error nor contradiction.
Whoever claims to have created reality needs to be able to face up to reality. The bible needs to be compared to reality and hold its own. It obviously fails to do so. This is inexcusable for a supposed creator.
Of course you'd encourage people to look at the bible alone. Look at what god claims to do rather than the reality god claims to be responsible for. From reality I tend to think that god is quite the monster. But even if you disagree with my assessment, you did claim that god will be willing to give people deadly diseases just to prove a point. I'm afraid that's too immoral and distasteful for us, as I doubt many on this forum would willingly infect someone with AIDS just to prove a point.
I don't think many will want to be friends with your god let alone worship him.
