Did God just admit to his followers that he's a psychopath?

[dyresand]

Surely an omnipotent god who is alleged to be good could alleviate suffering and do away with evil.

Our perspective is much different depending on whether or not we believe in eternal life.  If life is eternal, then life here is not even a blip on the radar screen.  If you believe that this life on earth is all we have, then I can be more understanding of you opinion of God.  God obviously wanted the possibility of evil to exist since he gave us a free will and created the "tempter".   He also wanted there to be suffering here because he created killer storms and diseases and so on.  I look at suffering as probably what we go through to form us into the type of people we are to be throughout eternity.  I don't know that this is true, but it's possible that those who suffer more here will will enjoy eternity more.  If you want to be a US Marine, you must go through rigorous training and pass numerous tests, as you are formed into what it takes to be a marine.  This is true of other things that we strive for.  God is forming us to be the people we will be for eternity.  I don't view suffering itself as evil, nor do I consider God as evil because he causes us to live in an environment in which we suffer.  As I pointed out earlier, we purposely bring children into this world knowing that they will suffer.  We could use birth control, and still have our sexual pleasure, without purposely bringing poor little children into this world of suffering, but we know that there are a lot of worthwhile and enjoyable experiences here and good reasons to be living here.  God also gave us the power and the freedom of choice to make the world a better place.  If we truly loved our neighbors as Jesus told us to do, we could alleviate hunger and much disease and suffering, but too many of us don't love our neighbors.  That's the way God made it to be.  I don't worry about why he made it this way.  I'm just confidently living my life under his guidance, knowing that this is just a blip on the screen.

god is a psychopath the end. Nothing you can say will change the fact that god of the bible is a evil dictator. god of the bible goes against his own word with Noah and has him slaughter people even after stating thou shall not kill. The thing is with humans in general as of now we are still limited to what we can do because culturally and religion plays a huge key factor into this and all in all its money and resource problem at that. Rich people really don't care about the third world they could do things but do some do sure its better than nothing. Even still religion really does hold a place on the third world to keep itself from advancing. The middle east they are still held back from scientific advancements because of their religion. Again religion really does play a role in how people act. In general i noticed with this christians they don't really give a fuck about anyone until they are down and are vulnerable and able to convert them all in all its not real help.