Claiming god is perfect

[Chad32]

People back then probably thought that this was the absolute best thing to do. My god is better than your god, so you'd better do what my god says. In fact, it's the worst thing they could have done. Claiming he's perfect, all knowing, all present, and such actually demands that he be held to a higher standard than anything else. It means we can't cut him any slack for things we disagree with in the bible.

I can go on about how bad Yahweh is, especially in the old testament, but that's mostly because people today believe that he's some perfect paragon of virtue. If he was just some guy that wasn't all powerful, and nobody thought he was perfect, and that Satan was just as powerful as he was, it would help explain some things and at least help me sympathize with him more.

Jesus was a notably humble person, and if the followers kept up with that humbleness, then it would help wash away mistakes that many modern people notice. Many outdated morals, actions, and commandments. Saying he's the infallible, unchanging, perfect deity just makes the bad parts stand out more, and we can't just say well he made a mistake and he apologized for it, and he's trying to do better, but the evil in the world is a tough burden to bare. We can't say he's under a lot of stress because he's supposedly all powerful. We can't say he has trouble communicating and getting to all our problems because he's supposedly all present. We can't say he just didn't know any better because he's supposedly all knowing.

Bottom line I guess is that the higher a pedestal you put something, the more likely it is to fall, and limitless perfection is probably not the pedestal anyone should put anything. It leaves no room for error, and many people can see many errors in the bible. That was probably the biggest mistake in the whole religion.