RE: Why I'm Still a Christian
March 6, 2015 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2015 at 1:00 pm by Lek.)
(March 6, 2015 at 6:40 am)h4ym4n Wrote: Why would an omniscient god entrust such a responsibility to man when it created man to be corrupt, sinful and evil?
god did have to kill off humans for being this way once. Then your omniscient god did it all over again with the same design.
Does that make sense to you Lek?
He didn't create mankind all over again. He allowed Noah and his family to survive and the race continued through his line. He didn't create us to be evil, but rather Adam chose to choose evil. Jesus came to us and redeemed us and through him we have the power to do right if we live by the spirit. So yes, it does make sense to me. He created this world for us to rule over its creatures and he's allowing us the freedom to do that.
(March 6, 2015 at 1:57 am)robvalue Wrote: Right, God ordered a lot of mass murder in the bible. He ordered city after city be wiped out by his "hero" at the time, for no particularly good reason. Just one example of an evil monster, but I could go on all day with other examples.
Have you read the bible in entirety Lek, right from start to finish?
Of course, these events mostly probably didn't happen at all, but that's irrelevant to the fact that your God claims credit for such acts and calls them good. Because he's on the side doing it. Like Hitler proclaimed. What's the difference? Maybe God was on Hitler's side?
Really, the only defence I see is "might makes right". God can do what the fuck he likes, because we can't stop him anyway. But ironically, we can stop him. It's happened to all the gods that proceeded him.
Actually, God didn't have to wipe out those cities to be a monster. If he hadn't killed them then, he would have killed them later, maybe by some horrible long-lasting disease, rather than a quick death by nature or by the sword. He's no more a monster to them than he is to babies that he allows to suffer today, and to every person who has ever lived and died. He could have made us all immortal, but the monster made us have to suffer and die before that happens. (For all of you who don't get it, I don't really believe he's a monster.)
