Garden of Eden was a setup...

[Fidel_Castronaut]

So then, 'might makes right', according to you.

How is that not totalitarianism?

How do you know that the deity that you worship is the good one?

He who gave his Son out of love for us wretched sinners even when we hated Him so that it would open the door for a relationship with us, can only be good.

And you don't find this absurd? Crazy how human beings can hold onto such illogical and clearly false beliefs.

I never understand why you guys repeatedly insist that this god is 'all good', despite all the horrible stuff it does in the bible. I'm just wondering why you look at the genocide of every living creature and human being on the planet (the flood) as being enacted by something I presume you would insist is the ultimate good. I'm certainly not the ultimate good and I would like to think I'd never do that if i had that kind of power. Does that make me more good than your Jewish war god?

I dunno man. I can never understand you guys. Love thy neighbor unless your neighbor is one of the myriad undesirables the holy book says that god doesn't like, even though it apparently made them and gave those that hate them the propensity to hate. If we're made in this god's image, then presumably it, too, has at least an element of hate within it. Again, quite obvious if you read the bible.