RE: Not again! -- Encouragement Please
August 27, 2013 at 2:23 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2013 at 2:25 pm by Ryantology.)
(August 27, 2013 at 8:53 am)Drich Wrote: 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.
The problem is that none of us can read about the berserk psychopath of the OT or the manipulative sociopath of the NT and accept that such a being is the source of all that is good in the universe. Well, that and the obvious fictional nature of the whole thing.
Before you start trying to sell us on the benefits of worshiping a berserk psychopath/manipulative sociopath, you have to clear the hurdle of proving that your God is objectively real. How God is described is rather beside the point until you figure that one out.
In fact, I would suggest that an atheist 'understands' God according to the Bible better than anyone, for we understand that he doesn't exist except as a character on its pages.
