Is the universe God?

[EvolutionKills]

Close, but not quite. If god and the universe are the same, it's not the same as god not existing. If god is the universe, and the universe exists; then clearly god exists. However this just makes god irrelevant, because he's no longer the anthropocentric, interventionist, voyeuristic, judgemental, genocidal sky-daddy.

It would just be a technical difference in terminology if you're just calling the universe something else. But God generally implies an intelligence and purposeful nature, in the case of the Biblical God you have the basis of good and evil and the supreme eternal justice system as well the Moral Law as it's known and the eternal Creator of all time and space and matter. In Christianity you don't have to worry about God judging you as your sins have been forgiven preemptively through Christs death on the cross and his resurrection to the fullness of life and all that business. Once you accept this gift of salvation the idea is you won't feel the need to sin or do evil so it works in reverse to the traditional Works based faith.

Of course at this point I'd have to point out that any supposedly supreme being who thought that the best recourse for his own mistakes was the drown the entire world with a magical flood, has absolutely no fucking moral ground to judge anyone; ever.

Also, why didn't accepting salvation stop the numerous wars and genocides precipitated by Christians? If you're saved, and that removes your desire to sin, what's with all the killing?