Isn't the biblical God more like a brutal dictator than anything else?

Question

Is that the primary reason so many bible believers support evil dictators instead of supporting democracy or representative government?

When did the biblical God ever conduct an election or hold a trial?

I am an atheist so I'm going to the biblical hell no matter what I do.

*BIG EYE ROLL*


Jesus claimed those who don't suck up to him (worhship him) will be sent to torture chambers, I fail to see how that is benevolent.

The RCC has been actively supporting brutal dictators for over 1,000 years. The Church of England was invented by brutal dictators.

Christians do NOT have a history of supporting individual freedom or democracy.

Yes, Scott, that is my real picture.

In other words, we don't consider him a brutal dictator because believing him to exist is illogical?

Is that what you meant?

Yes, Pudding, I've actually read the bible more than once:

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In reading through the answers, those who claim he is a dictator offer examples. Those who claim he isn't either try to insult me, claim I don't know what I'm talking about, or claim that I'll pay for my attitude when their benevolent God catches up with me.

What can a logical person conclude by that?

hmmmm.......

Rallie, how does that explain all the natural disasters the Biblical God sends our way?

He obviously enjoys inflicting as much torture on his creations as possible.

(either that or he doesn't exist)

To nursep:

I haven't gotten around to being angry at God, I'm still angry at Santa for not bringing me a pony when I was 8.

I didn't read your entire comment because it is too much propaganda for me to digest. When you went into the "God works in mysterious ways" (Sunday School Lesson #5) that was too much.

There is nothing mysterious about God, he doesn't exist.

Answer 1

of course he is. he encourages slavery, genocide, mass destruction, and violent conquest. a god who says you can either choose between obeying me and burning in hell forever isn't offering a real choice, just blackmail. it's like a guy who tells his girlfriend she can do whatever she wants, but if she leaves him he will hunt her down and toture and kill her

Answer 2

Not on your life!!

Where do you get off saying that a christian would rather support an evil dictator than a just government? How can you make such a rash, unjustified statement? You are speaking through your hat, not your brain.
Why should God have to have a trial or an election for anything? God, being the ultimate creator of all things and the supreme sovereign power in the entire universe, WHO is there to RUN against him in an election? Uh, hello, you?? I don't think so. And as for a trial, everyone gets a trial at the time of judgement we will ALL get a fair trial for our lives based on how we used our lives, and that includes you and I as well. We'll see then whether or not he is a just god or a cruel BRUTE who hates everyone like you insinuate.

Answer 3

I'm not an expert on the Bible, heck I've never read it, but it seems to me that the Bible paints two very different pictures of God. The God of the Jews in the Old Testament is clearly not benevolent and loving etc. The Christian God is presented much more positively because God sends Jesus the save people, not to kill them. It is not surprising that in the Bible God did not support democracy or representative goverment because by that time only Athenians had actually experimented with democracy, and this is the God is Israel, not Athens. In the Old Testament it is clear that the Jews used their notion of and belief in God to justify their actions. I don't think that it is fair to God (if He even exists) to believe that the way He is portrayed in the Old Testament (or any portrayal for that matter) is accurate. As an agnostic, I am commited to the idea that we can't make any rational judgements about God (or any other diety).

Answer 4

Gee JT, what's up with your illogical conclusion? I don't know any Christians who support evil dictators.

God isn't a dictator or a democratic leader or an earthly judge. He's THE LORD. That means He's sovereign, THE Creator, Omniscient, Wise and the FINAL judge of all, whether they believe or not. 'The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." (Proverbs 9:10, NIV)

You can't think of Him as a human, because He isn't. He's on an infinitely higher level than we are. We can't understand all the intricacies of his reasoning. We're sometimes like little kids that think our parents are mean when they insist we eat our broccoli before dessert-we just don't see the big picture.

He's also the Good Shepherd, the loving Father, the Redeemer, tenderhearted, and long-suffering. Jesus must have wept when He cried, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing." (Matthew 23:37, NIV)

You might want to ask yourself why you're so angry with Him.

Answer 5

examine the 1st six chapters of Proverbs, the 4 Gospels, Psalms, the full Bible. save reading in view which you will not take all of it in in a single placing. lifestyles is consistently unfolding. David composed lots of the Psalms and is termed "a guy after's God's very own coronary heart". Psalms is a good commencing component in view which you notice a guy consistently in prayer. David is likewise a prophet who information the prophetic observe by God's spirit in diverse the Psalms. Ask God to bare himself to you and you purely isn't dissappointed. As for visual attraction, He printed himself to diverse the prophets. examine the beginnings of Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and examine the Revelation. Descriptions are specific. even though it style of feels exceedingly much impossible to photograph what they observed, and understand the sheer terror of being a sinful creature interior the presence of holiness, those debts serve a purpose. the traditional reaction is to fall face all the way down to the floor, face hidden, worshipping whilst shaking interior the airborne dirt and dust. Earf!

Answer 6

There was certainly no concept of democracy in the New Testament Church or in all of Christendom before Oliver Cromwell. But brutal dictator? He lovingly killed Egypt's first born in a snit with Pharaoh. That's not brutal like those evil dictators. No wait, yes it is. He lovingly ordered the women and children of the Amalekites, all prisoners of war, slaughtered and the virgin girls awarded to the slaughtering troops. That's not brutal. No wait, yes it is. He lovingly gave permission to the devil to kill all of Jobs family and destroy his possessions even though Job was a righteous man, just to prove a point to Satan, which if God was all-knowing he would have known the outcome and not bothered with the bet, but that wasn't brutal and callous. No wait, yes it was, because God made us and thus has the right to torture his pets like a psycho kid cooking his ant farm with a magnifying glass, in love and holiness of course.

Answer 7

Let us take God away for a moment. Act like a leader of a tribe called Israel whom God called stubborn and obstinate during those times. Imagine all of them having been formed into slavery for hundreds of years and sudennly you brought them out of Egypt and brought them to a new barren land without anything to show them the promise of milk and honey. Those were slaves for hundred years who suddenly were freed and no one have had a good education and breeding and what they know is the strength of their muscles and not their heads. What kind of people do you expect you will be dealing with? How would you control a group of mob?

Answer 8

It would be safe to say that you are not a Christian? Is this your bash God and Jesus moment? God does hold a trial and you will stand before Him and be judged one day, so I guess you could say that is a trial. You just won't have the ACLU communists to defend you, or get off on a technicality. God is just in His judgment of sin. As far as evil dictators, in whom are you referring? I personally don't believe in supporting evil dictators, communists, socialists, or Islamic religious leaders that want to behead you. So, what is your point?
Thanx for the 2 points.

Answer 9

No he is not, or ever was a brutal dictator, I have noticed every single comment you seam to make on here is putting GOD down, you seam to have one big chip on your shoulder against GOD for some reason, do you need some kind of help sir ? I don't mean to offend you,but something seams wrong here.

Answer 10

He didn't he's God....whether u want him to be God of not. Just like you can't change the fact that 2 + 2=4 you can't change that God is God. God's not a dictator, he doesn't make u follow him. Your given a choice, it's not demanded, though he longs to talk, walk, and commune with each and every person whether we do or not is entirly up to us.

Answer 11

Look, I'm not a religious guy, but that question was pretty ridiculous.

The basis of christianity is that "god" is the creator of everything, and is always right and good.

You can't look at it logically, because it has it's own logic, using the goodness of god a a basic assumption that other reasoning is based on.

Is that your real picture?