The Bible. All or nothing?

[Chad32]

I would expect that a message delivered by proxy from a real god would lack any error. Even the slightest, smallest, most insignificant error brings down the whole thing like a jenga tower.

I've said it before, the biggest boner Christians made in the entire scheme was trying to win the spiritual dick-measuring contest by asserting perfection and ultimate qualities. If God was described as flawed but learning, the entire thing would make a million times more sense and his crimes would be forgivable.

I agree with this. If people said yeah, our deity isn't perfect, and he apologizes for some of the horrible things he did, but he's learning and becoming a nicer, more responsible person. I mean, he made a world, with one sentient species on it, and it didn't go exactly the way he wanted, but it's all a learning experience for everyone.

He'd be far more relatable, and understandable. Like a real parent that thinks he knows exactly how to raise a child before he has one, then when he does, he realizes just how hard it can be. Instead we get this idea that he's perfect and unchanging, and any problem between him and you is all your fault, because you're the flawed creature. He's not perfect, and apparently he isn't unchanging either. Jesus supposedly is god, yet he has different ideas of how people should live their lives.