(May 24, 2020 at 6:31 am)Johanabrahams Wrote:(May 23, 2020 at 1:01 pm)Gwaithmir Wrote: Anyone who actually thinks God is love should read the Book of Job. If you still think God is love after that, you're deluded and lying to yourself.Nope. I can not change.
Job 42
10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren–happuch.
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
So Job died, being old and full of days.
Wrong! You have the capacity to change, you simply lack the intellectual honesty to do so.
In this book God is guilty of the gratuitous killing of human beings, the wanton destruction of property, the unjustified assault on job's person, and a hideous display of his own egotism and conceit---all for the sole purpose of winning a bet with the Devil. The fact that God later restored Job's wealth does not erase the reality of his crimes. The fact that Job lacked the moral courage to stand erect and shout, "J'accuse!" at his tyrant deity does not vindicate God's immoral behavior either.
Your God is about as full of love as Hitler.
You are a perfect example of how religion and faith debilitate the mind and unfit it for honest thinking.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)