He destroys his own creation rather than teach (Sodom and Gomorra). Even kills a woman running away from Sodom and Gomorra for being neurotic. He doesn't stress how important something is and then banishes you for not knowing (Adam and Eve). Asks a father to kill his own son for no good reason (Abraham). Drowns the world of non-believers out of his infinite compassion (Noah’s Ark).
All the Bible really says is if you keep your head down and do as you’re told, you’ll be rewarded in the end for being such a good sheep. It teaches us to be a possession of God, a pawn, instead of tolerance and understanding. How about reading Steinbeck or Hemingway? I mean why would you even want to go to Heaven if you had to worship this bloodlust God? Life was hard back then when the Bible was being written so of course people imagined God was all these things, but now in this day an age, it corrupts people's potential to learn more, willingness to read books and watch tearjerker movies, etc...
2006-08-06 07:52:51 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So God died for us to live in Heaven? All the suffering is down here buddy.
2006-08-06 08:06:07 · update #1
Why I'm angry? It's b/c little kids are brain-washed for the start, some people never get to decide for themselves.
2006-08-06 08:10:47 · update #2
It's funny to see the bible thumping apologists try to squirm out of answering this question with any honesty. The biblical God has most definitely acted like a jerk, or perhaps a petulant child. Sometimes, I'm amazed that anyone still buys into it.
2006-08-06 08:02:44 · answer #1 · answered by l00kiehereu 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God isn't a jerk. Man IS. the people were warned in Sodom and Gomorra oh how many times?! so was Adam and Eve. there was only one thing forbidden. it was a test of faith for Abraham. again, they were oh so repeatedly warned in Noah.
read your Bible correctly before you make such harsh claims! check your premises. people who make these kind of claims are usually the ones who have difficulty achieving what is asked in the Bible. God forgives. that is the lesson. just be sincere and he will. the Bible is a handbook of how life should be lived. you place blame on God when it was man's doing in the first place! please stop doing that and check your premises. would you rather not have free will? would you rather not have reason? would you rather not have choice? if so, God could have done that when he created man and after he banished Adam and Eve. but he didn't. we still have it. we learn from the things that we do.
As the cliche goes, "experience is the best teacher". personally, i think life here is a test so that when eventually we do meet our maker, we learned our mistakes and get to see the bigger picture of things.
2006-08-06 08:16:34 · answer #2 · answered by abstemious_entity 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God warned them not to look back at the city of Sodom and Gomorah and that if they did they would be turned to a pillar of salt. It is about heeding the word of God. The woman did not listen to God's warning and she was punished. It was not without cause.
The real reason for men and women's downfall is their own arrogance at not trusting completely in God. God does not move away from the human race, it is the human race that moves further and further away from Him. Being that God created man and all of the things in the natural world and there abouts. It does make everyone and everything Gods. That is just the way that it is. Free will is what it is all about, you (the general you) must make a decision to either follow God in his infinite wisdom or you are going through life alone. Humans can not make something from nothing, only God. God had given those people who were drowned in the Great Flood many opportunities to turn their lives around. They did not heed the warning and so He had to take care of business. God does run out of patience, He is running out of patience with people in our modern world. The world and most of its people are going to be destroyed again.
2006-08-06 08:23:49 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sodom and Gomorrah- God is a God of second chances. You don't think He would have given Sodom and Gomorrah second chances had they asked? But they didn't ask. Let me ask you something. If you created a machine of some sort, and it didn't work the way it was supposed to or created to, and no matter what you did, it wouldn't respond properly, what would you do? I'm not saying that we're like machines because God has given us our own free will to do what we want (although His desire is to follow after Him whole-heartedly), but that machine would still be your creation.
Lot's Wife- God told her not to look back for her own sake. She did look back, so there were consequences for her actions just like there are for any action we do.
Adam and Eve- when Adam and Eve were first created, there was no sin in the world. If you had one rule, only one rule, and that rule was not to eat the fruit of ONE tree, but you could of any other tree, why would you go to the one tree that you were told not to eat of? To me this is a "duh" factor. I probably would have done the same thing Adam and Eve did, but they made a choice and there was a consequence for it.
Abraham- did you read the end of Abraham and Isaac's story? God asked Abraham to sacrifice the thing he most loved as a test of Abraham's faith. But God didn't let Abraham sacrifice his son! He sent an angel to stop him and He even provided a ram for him to sacrifice.
Genesis 22:12-13 "And He said, 'Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not witheld your son, your only son, from Me.' Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked and there behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son." (NKJV)
Noah's Ark- it's the same as Sodom and Gomorrah. They were given chances, but they refused God.
God is a compassionate God. And a loving God. And a forgiving God. But He's also a fair God. And a just God. He loves and cares for every person in this world. People ask, "If God is really so loving, how can He condemn people to hell?" I ask, "Why should people who don't give a care in the world about God and curse Him and pretty much hate Him, receive the same reward as the people who have dedicated their lives to Him, and who seek to honor His holy Name?"
2006-08-06 08:26:50 · answer #4 · answered by Daughter of the King 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God didn't destroy his people in the flood, he destroyed what the devil manipulated
If you read the bible and understood a little more why God does what he does you wouldn't judge it so quickly
Sodom and Gomorrah,
well Sodom named after sodomy
a town full of the worst demonic activity ever
look at the fact that even though God destroyed the earth in water and a town in fire He saved the ones that loved him
Noah and his Family
Lot and His family
Jesus sacrificed as God himself in Flesh instead of Issac
God will also destroy the devil to
who side do you want to remain on?
I think you need to think about that instead of listening to all these lying demons in your head-
It was because of these demons why God has to keep destroying everything
Demons are contaminating the whole world and God will soon end this reign of evil,
Sorry the devil has filled your heart with hate towrds a loving and merciful God
I will pray for you
2006-08-06 08:05:07 · answer #5 · answered by Utopia 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe your the jerk. He does what he has to do. If that means killing people then fine. Its not like he just went on a joyride to start killing people. As for Adam and Eve, When your told not to do somthing, don't do it!!!! you shouldn't have to be told dozens of times for it to stick. So when you do wrong you get punished. Not to hard to figure out. As for asking abraham to kill his own son, he had no intention of the son actually dying. It was a test of abrahams faith. If he hadn't done it, the son would have lived and since he did do it, the son still lived. And drowning the world of non-belivers? If all of your kids started acting up and stealing and killing and doing completely horrible things you wouldn't be to happy now would you? Maybe not to the point of killing them, you still love them, but you wouldn't want them in the life of your kids that did the right thing, and got good grades would you? You wouldn't want the bad kids influencing the good kids, because while you still love the bad ones, you know that your good kids have a better chance at becoming good people w/o the influence of the bad. And as for keeping your head down, the bible says hold it up high and spread the word!!!!!! As for being a possession, if you consider yourself a possession of your earthly father, then thats you. But you can still be your own person and free while worshipping god. And going to heaven isn't constant kneeling in front of the lord worshipping him like the egyptians worshipped there gods. Its paradise! With no pain or sorrow. But you know...this is my opinion, obviously not yours. And your entitled to your opinions.
Christians don't know that god exists. We have faith. A faith so strong that an amazing amount of good has sprung up from it. And while faith isn't admissable in a court of law, Its perfectly fine for the billions of people who have decided to be a Christian, both living and non-living.
Because if you don't have faith, what else do you have to live for?
2006-08-06 08:18:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to read more of the bible. God told Adam and Eve not to eat of the forbidden fruit or they would die ( spiritual death ). God told the woman who was running away not to look back. God has always warned us of the dangers and made a way of escape when we listen to him. If someone were to tell you, not to go forward because the bridge was out; would you continue on? If so, then you would end up in the same boat as theses others you have mentioned.
2006-08-06 08:01:55 · answer #7 · answered by mary c 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is such a jerk? That is pretty harsh and also shows a lack of understanding on WHY these events occured. First off, in the Garden of Eden God told Adam and Eve not to partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die. What happened? Why were they sent out from the Garden? Because they disobeyed God. This is clearly stressing the importance of it, and they did not know to listen to what God told them, after He told them what not to do? The one tree He said that you couldn't partake of, they ended up eating from anyway. Isn't that just like human nature? The fact you have several things you can do, but we choose the one thing we shouldn't be doing? They had several other trees, but chose to eat also of the one He said not to. He tells Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac. You fail to mention why. Did God not stop this? Yes, He did. Obviously, He had no intentions of letting Abraham go through with it. Then why did He ask? To find out how faithful and obedient Abraham was. If you go back to the garden, and read how God spoke to the serpent and said, I will put emnity between your seed and the women's seed. You shall bruise His heel, and He will bruise your Head. Sin had come into the world, and God was already speaking of Jesus coming. God gave His son for us. Try remembering that instead of clinging to something that God wouldn't allow to happen in the case of Abraham and Isaac. By the way, Jesus layed down His life willingly, in case you would think God cruel of this too. In the case of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Noah's ark. Since people knew good and evil and chose evil, what would you have God to do, when they were already choosing to do evil? Would not a higher being that created life also care about what they did? It is attitudes like this when people do not look at what they do, but at what God does. The bottom line is this and there is no way to get around it. If people know good and evil,and choose evil anyway, what would you have God to do? Pretend it wasn't happening. In the case of Lot's wife looking back, did not the angel of the Lord, say do not look back? Yes, he did. She did not listen to him, did she? The next time you try to paint a picture of God, try finding out why He did what He did. It is just like the arrogance of a human being to see as they want, and not see all. Further more who are you to judge God?
2006-08-06 08:24:51 · answer #8 · answered by peace to all 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ah, the place can we start up. God sent angels to Sodom and Gomorrah to inspect and the electorate tried to rape them. They did this besides having a God-given unsleeping of precise and incorrect. He needless to say gave the girl classes, in the process the angels, of what to not do. She disobeyed an common practise in basic terms as Adam and Eve did. Adam and Eve knew finished nicely what the implications have been for disobedience, they nevertheless disobeyed. If a human can not obey uncomplicated classes how will they fare with extra complicated and extreme divine classes and rules and concepts? God has each and every precise to attempt the obedience of his creatures. He did this with Abraham and Abraham tried to obey. God rewarded him for his faith and love in obedience. God drowned a worldwide of violent non-believing and ungodly those that have been ruining the earth. He used Noah to warn them yet they took no observe of the warning. The Bible says not something approximately retaining one's head down. even inspite of the incontrovertible fact that God calls for finished obedience he helps loads of freedom of expression. God tolerates plenty yet not all issues. there's a decrease to tolerance. Tolerating any and each little thing finally leads to corruption and destruction and chaos. God is a God of justice, existence, peace and order. guy is bloodlust together with his many wars over millenium, in basic terms as violent, if no better than, those residing throughout Noah's day. God will one very final time end the violence that guy is committing in the direction of humanity and the earth.
2016-11-04 00:23:47 · answer #9 · answered by fleitman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do people want to blame all the bad things that happen on God. God didn't do it...If we would just obey his commands and stop being wicked, then bad things would not happen. But you know people, we are so hard headed. And we are possessions of God, you cannot be saved thinking you belong to yourself. You have to commit yourself totally to God...And for you calling God a jerk, "Lord touch em" before it's too late.
2006-08-06 08:02:52 · answer #10 · answered by Crazy lady 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋