Like all holy texts, the Christian Holy Bible is open to wide interpretation. Personally, I think the Holy Bible is repulsive, for it is full of animal cruelty, slavery, sexism, and outright hate speech. But Christians would probably say I am misinterpreting it.
So, biases aside, let us discuss God's morality and what he is capable of doing as the supreme being. This is important.
For example, look at the story of Noah's Ark. God supposedly decided to flood the world because of all the corruption going on within humanity. Well, isn't God omniscient? Can't he see into the future? If he knows all and sees all, then I would think God would know beforehand that humans would become evil at some point in their life and would simply make them die if they were to cause trouble in the future. Better yet: If God knew they would become corrupt in the future, then why did he create them to begin with?
But others might say God created free will and the corrupt people who drowned in the flood had deliberately chosen to be bad. Maybe God was just giving the jerks what they deserved.
That raises questions about what exactly God is capable of doing. God obviously can't read your thoughts; he can only punish you if you misbehave. Okay....
This video heckles the Christian God for not doing enough for humanity. In Matthew, Jesus Christ heals a blind man and a man with leprosy. Well...Jesus Christ could have done a lot better. Scientists have cured many more people of leprosy than Christ ever did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOfjkl-3S...5_gSByMyr7
I am also a bit skeptical of Jesus Christ's moral character. Take a look at this passage from Matthew:
Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Jesus sounds like a jerk in that passage. You have to love him more than your family? You must turn against your family for the sake of Jesus's love?
Anyway, those are some things to think about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT8WATQ6v...5_gSByMyr7
So, biases aside, let us discuss God's morality and what he is capable of doing as the supreme being. This is important.
For example, look at the story of Noah's Ark. God supposedly decided to flood the world because of all the corruption going on within humanity. Well, isn't God omniscient? Can't he see into the future? If he knows all and sees all, then I would think God would know beforehand that humans would become evil at some point in their life and would simply make them die if they were to cause trouble in the future. Better yet: If God knew they would become corrupt in the future, then why did he create them to begin with?
But others might say God created free will and the corrupt people who drowned in the flood had deliberately chosen to be bad. Maybe God was just giving the jerks what they deserved.
That raises questions about what exactly God is capable of doing. God obviously can't read your thoughts; he can only punish you if you misbehave. Okay....
This video heckles the Christian God for not doing enough for humanity. In Matthew, Jesus Christ heals a blind man and a man with leprosy. Well...Jesus Christ could have done a lot better. Scientists have cured many more people of leprosy than Christ ever did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOfjkl-3S...5_gSByMyr7
I am also a bit skeptical of Jesus Christ's moral character. Take a look at this passage from Matthew:
Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Jesus sounds like a jerk in that passage. You have to love him more than your family? You must turn against your family for the sake of Jesus's love?
Anyway, those are some things to think about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT8WATQ6v...5_gSByMyr7
