Christians, Prove Your God Is Good

[robvalue]

He could just magically make them all good instead!

Rape isn't rape if your forced to be married first, there's no rape in marriage. The only bad rape is when it's with someone else's wife.

So I hear.

[Mr.wizard]

He could just magically make them all good instead!

Rape isn't rape if your forced to be married first, there's no rape in marriage. The only bad rape is when it's with someone else's wife.

So I hear.

Lol, I know the way believers rationalize this crap is unbelievable. He acts like after the soldier slaughtered the virgins friends and family, he got down on one knee and asked for the virgins hand in marriage.

[robvalue]

What a romantic scene! Bless their hearts. You have to do it right.

Did they have music back then?

[Mr.wizard]

What a romantic scene! Bless their hearts. You have to do it right.

Did they have music back then?

He would have asked her father for his blessing first if he hadn't already decapitated him, you know because gods chosen people are well mannered like that.

[robvalue]

Oh yeah. They were real gentlemen I'm sure.

I hear they treat their piece of shit slaves well, too. They only beat them bad enough for them to recover in 2 days. Now that's a hell of a benefits package.

[watchamadoodle]

We are all evil; He didn't make particular cities full of evil people, He simply dealt with them when He had had enough of them, or when it served His purposes to eliminate them.

The Lord never orders the rape of virgins anywhere in the Bible. They are allowed to be taken in marriage, and there is nothing to lead us to believe that He intended anything but that.

So what if the animals are killed?

Hitler was not "fine," though all evil serves God's purposes for good. Out of the ashes of the holocaust the nation of Israel was reborn, as prophesied 2,500 years earlier.

Babies are not evil, but the judgment of God is severe, and as it is written:

Numbers 14:18
The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations.

And who is evil, God for His righteous judgment, or man who revels in unrighteousness? We are all born with consciences; the Canaanites knew that sacrificing their children by fire was evil, but they did it anyway. They deserved what happened to them.

Wow.

[MilesAbbott81]

Lol, I know the way believers rationalize this crap is unbelievable. He acts like after the soldier slaughtered the virgins friends and family, he got down on one knee and asked for the virgins hand in marriage.

Do you have any evidence to the contrary?

[robvalue]

Yeah, so what if animals and babies are killed?

I mean, when I go down and get some cereal, sometimes I go into the street and beat a baby and some dogs to death. Not always, I'm not a psycho.

I made the universe and I know everything. Do you have evidence to the contrary?

[MilesAbbott81]

Yeah, the bible is pretty easy on rapists. It even punishes rape victims.

But that was a different culture, and it's not like God could just tell them what to do and what not to do. That would never work.

It is ridiculous that an all powerful god cannot think of a better way to deal with people who are misbehaving, other than slaughtering them and their children.

You use the word "misbehaving" as some kind of euphemism for burning children alive! How ridiculous is that?

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Yeah, so what if animals and babies are killed?

I mean, when I go down and get some cereal, sometimes I go into the street and beat a baby and some dogs to death. Not always, I'm not a psycho.

I made the universe and I know everything. Do you have evidence to the contrary?

Again, you dismiss the perpetrators as somehow guiltless. Say your neighbor gave his son to a priest, who then sacrificed that child by fire. Then, someone comes along and shoots the priest, the priest's children, and the neighbor who gave up the child to be burned alive. Would you say justice was done?

I certainly would. In fact, I'd say the priest's children were lucky to receive bullets instead of being burned alive themselves.

The point of the Bible illustrating all of this is to demonstrate the severity of God's wrath. It's no joke, and woe to those who think it is.

[robvalue]

No, gods depicted wrath is very harsh.

Doesn't happen so much these days, does it? His appearances seem to have waned since we have better recording equipment.

Except I'm God, like I said. You can't prove im not. And I didn't do any of that stuff in that book.