Anyone who has been decieved into thinking that God is evil, please tell me where you got this notion from. If you say, "from reading one of the Old Testament books in the bible", please tell me whether or not you read the New Testament? The devil is the one who comes to kill, steal & destroy. The laws in the old testament were solely in place because of the deception that took place in the garden and the choice that Adam & Eve made. Please answer honestly and take some time to read the New Testament and learn of a God who is LOVE.
God LOVED EACH One of YOU so much that HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON. Would you give your only son up to death even for people that mock you? That is true love and that is the TRUE character of God.
I pray that each of you will take a moment and think on that... also search the scriptures of the new testament and search the truth out for yourselves. If you'll ask God to show you how REAL He is, He will Show you. What do you have to lose?
2007-04-19 09:52:37 · 28 answers · asked by Christina L 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not bashing anyone, sorry if I offended anyone. I would just like to know where you got this notion from if you do believe that God is evil.
2007-04-19 10:03:56 · update #1
You mean the New Testament where God kills Ananias and Sapphira for not being good little communists (i.e. refusing to put all their belongings in the community pot)? (Acts 5)
But please do explain to me why God killed millions of men, women, children, and babies in the Old Testament? Simply because of the choice Adam and Eve made? That somehow excuses it all? Get real!
What kind of a God loves you so much that he kills his own son? Have you ever stopped and thought about that logically for a moment? Today when somebody loves somebody else so much that they kill their children, we send them to prison. There are lots of examples of this. Are you really suggesting that killing your children is the ultimate act of love?
The simple truth is that God doesn't exist. Most of what you read in the Old Testament never actually happened. The Israelites were never more than a simple band of nomads. They did not utterly destroy the Canaanites, or any other people. Their war stories were mostly just gloating.
But nonetheless, the Old Testament is used as an example of God's atrocities because it is part of your religious beliefs. Beliefs that you conveniently ignore when they don't suit you. And that makes you a cherry-picker.
According to the Old Testament, God, YOUR GOD, THE FATHER OF JESUS, was a God of both good and evil. "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things" (Isaiah 45:7). But you ignore this and only pull out those parts of the OT that you like, namely the story of Creation and other niceties.
2007-04-19 09:55:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Hmm..ok that is what I heard, Satan was once God's brother...they usually each lived in heaven, then Satan did a few evil doing or some thing unhealthy so God despatched him to Hell to are living for the reason that he did flawed. If that's real..is not God rather evil? I imply each person makes mistake is there rather a ought to ship your possess flesh and blood to a further position on account that of a mistake? I have an understanding of if it was once rape, or killing or some thing. But rattling...I'm no longer Christian or whatever, however that is what I heard from men and women who stated they have been Christian. So can anybody transparent this up? ..additionally to reply your query I do consider god may also be evil and will do evil. I imply who does not do evil matters as soon as in a whilst? No one is ultimate and I understand God is not both, and no I'm no longer 'hating' on God or whatever..however simply talking what is logical.
2016-09-05 17:39:24 · answer #2 · answered by harting 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think god is evil -- god doesn't exist.
I think many of the *people* who make up gods (or believe in gods that other people have made up) are evil. There are also evil atheists, buddhists, shintoists, etc. People can be evil -- mythological gods cannot.
You point us to the new testament and basically tell us to ignore the old testament...you know, the one where god instructs his followers to massacre every living thing in a city (except the young virgins, which they can take to have sex with); the one where god commands his most faithful servant to kill his only child to prove how faithful he is; the one where god commands that women must be locked away during their periods because they're "unclean." Why ignore all of that, it's THERE, and it's supposed to be the same god as the one in the new testament? The two seem like completely different gods -- why is that? Does god change...or is it more likely that *people* changed, and made a new god to replace the old one others made up, with the new one being a bit less cruel?
OK, I'll take your bait: god, show me how real you are.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Still nothing.
Not real at all, apparently -- no manifestation of reality of god has happened. Guess you have to be deluded to see one, huh?
Peace.
2007-04-19 10:06:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Read 2 Kings 2:23-24 for starters. Sending a bear to kill 42 kids for calling a guy bald is evil.
Job is another inspiring story. And then there is that whole thing in Leviticus about buying and marrying the girl if you are caught raping her. Just a marvelous rule, isn't it? How bout we tell our kids that they have to kill their hamster just to prove that they really love us? That seems to be God did to Abraham.
Want more? I could do this for quite a while. There are over 2.2 million deaths in the Old Testament that God is responsible for.
2007-04-19 10:02:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i personally don't believe he exists but using your own dogma and belief you prove God is either evil or cruel in all the bible not only the old testament
well if you see someone suffering next to you as a good christian would you not help him if it isn't to hard
yet your "God" your "Savior" your "Lord" with ultimate power and infinite kindness can't help dose who he loves so much
well that either means God doesn't exist or his cruel and likes to see people in suffering free will is useless against natural disasters(also God still permits, no matter what religious man you would put in Gods place he wouldn't show the cruelness your God shows ) the devil only exists by the will of God and if God wants he can eliminate him so that fails to
2007-04-19 10:15:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't give up his only son, he made Jesus spend a short weekend in Hell. Friday evening, all day Saturday, wake up Sunday and spend a few weeks with the Disciples. Then right hand of God for all eternity.
Yeah, big sacrifice.
2007-04-19 10:00:24 · answer #6 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mostly it's your God doing the killing, stealing and destroying.
Satan hardly makes more than a cameo or two in the Old Testament.
If your Old Testament God were a man, he would be on trial for ordering the Genocide of Israel's neighboring tribes, ordering the rape of surviving female virgins and promptly executed.
He makes Saddam look like a Boy Scout.
2007-04-19 09:57:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
God is not evil, He is imaginary. People are evil and they are not imaginary. The threat to civilization comes not from an imaginary God, but rather from the deluded evil people who actually believe in Him.
2007-04-19 10:02:01 · answer #8 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because there is so much more evil in the world than good. If there is an ominipotent God, he has the ability to stop evil, yet he allows it to flourish, and seems to prefer it to good, if the state of the world is any indication.
2007-04-19 09:56:35 · answer #9 · answered by cdrfish8000 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Isn't a character of God the one who smote Onan for he spilled his seed on the ground?
The problem is you cannot pick and choose what you want from the Bible. It is the ENTIRE book, and must be judged in its entirity
2007-04-19 10:00:00 · answer #10 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋