More "Good God, What were You thinking"?

Question

First, anyone can post anything, only those answers that follow the rules have a chance at Best Answer.

Second, "God works in mysterious ways" and similar answers are null statements. They are equivalent to saying "I don't know" and thus eliminate themselves from the contest.

Third, contending answers must stipulate the following:
1. The God of the OT is the same God of the NT.
2. That God is a God of love and infinite mercy.
3. That God is a family-values kind of God. He hates the shedding of innocent blood and loves little kids.
4. God hates the sin but loves the sinner, sacrificing His only Son for the sins of the world, etc.

Rules are clear?

All you have to do is explain why God did what he did in a selected verse, and why you approve of His choice.

Here's another old favourite of mine: Leviticus 20:9
Seems that if my son were to curse me ("G*d damn you, Dad."), God would want my son "put to death". Does the ultimate 'time-out' seem reasonable to you?

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Answer 1

"Seems that if my son were to curse me ("G*d damn you, Dad."), God would want my son "put to death". Does the ultimate 'time-out' seem reasonable to you? "

WTF Kind of stupid question is that? I say if your that much into "god" then you should'nt have children.

Answer 2

All I want to do is answer your one statement "God works in mysterious ways." That is correct, how the heck does any single human know exactly what God does? How is that possible? In the Bible is simply states "Do not rely upon your own understanding." Why? Because as proven in so many books within the Bible we honestly do not know anything. We think we know, but honestly we do not know. If we did then we would understand how everything works instead of having theories.

Go to the book of Job and see how God questions Job and still after all that questioning Job still knows nothing at all!!!

So, whatever God wills is what God wills and I have no clue what He does from one day to the next!

Answer 3

Curse, during that time, had a diffrent implication. It was to put a spell on, to "charm" someone, taking its workings from mysticism, or satan. We have to keep terms, in context, cant pick and choose.
Now, under that terminology, it would not be something a child would do, it would be something done by an adult, hence the blood on his head part, meaning he would be reponsible for his own death, knowing the consequences.

This law was Jewish in nature, given to them to follow. Not a gentile law, a Jewish one. People tend to ignore the fact that OT was written in laws for Gods people, Jews, to abide by. With the death of Jesus, sins were covered under the Salvation plan, no longer requiring those punishments.

God did not change, but the laws were rather abolished.

Answer 4

I know this isn't playing by the rules... but this is my answer when somebody asks if Allah is the same god as the god of the Old Testament:

No. Allah is the same old jealous, petty, capricious, mass-murdering psychopathic Abrahamic diety of desert monotheism that is described in the Old Testament... Yahweh... Jehovah... whatever.

Christians seem to think that around 2,000 years ago, this diety developed some kind of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), in which he manifested a hippie-like personality (Jesus... spent some time on earth... can now be eaten in the form of a cracker), and some Casper the Ghost-like character with pedophilic tendencies (suspected of having impregnated a 12 or 13 year-old virgin... and being honored for it).

The Moslems, however, do not share that belief; they see him as his same-old psychopathic self, essentially unchanged since his old-testament days... except that he seems to have updated his reward system about 1,500 years ago, when he started handing over virgins (in heaven) to be defiled by insane zealots, as a show of gratitude for them having carried out mass-murder and killing themselves in his name. (I think that's what happens to Catholic nuns, after they die. Where else would they find enough virgins?)

Sweet.

I find him very interesting to note that most Christians... including Christian preachers... haven't got the slightest clue about the historical roots of their own religion, let alone any other religion.

Answer 5

Go to H*ll and may God save your soul!.