Is God a narcissistic sadist?

Question

Doesn't he test us a little TOO much? If he wanted to test loyalty and morality-which, since he is all-knowing, he shouldn't even have to do-, couldn't he do it with one big test??? He's obviously a sadist.

Narcissistic? Well, he's certainly got the symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance
2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by other special people
4. requires excessive admiration
5. strong sense of entitlement
6. takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
7. lacks empathy
8. is often envious or believes others are envious of him or her
9. arrogant affect.

Can you prove to me that God is not a sadist with NPD?

boldtruth07: Nice way of avoiding the question.

Answer 1

I am not a proponent of any form of Christianity. However I practice tolerance when it comes to another's choice in religion. The points made by the question speak volumes for the scores of individuals that question the specific detail of said divine book.
The universe to me is perfect. My favorite thing to do is live! If there is a God, I think he must look down (or up) on earth and wonder if he created a monster. In reality, the practice man chooses to indulge collectively is the issue. We rape, murder and torture each other endlessly. How is it a God should be held responsible for the free choice of his created subjects? The problem with man is man.
When we admire ourselves in front of the mirror we either see who we really are, or we don't. How can I explain the taste of an apple to a person who has never had one. I could describe away at the complexity of it's substance, very nearly achieving the experience. But until that person takes a bite.....they never REALLY know. It is better to breathe, love and experience all that we have while we are alive. It is better to tolerate a person's belief than lash out against it. Look at what some of the believers have wrote. They are angry with some of this content. Is this sharing a loving experience, or expressing that human desire to oppress all of those who disagree? My friends, this life is far to perfect to waste. We can't change another's mind, one must change oneself and even then, only when needed. - jcr

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky."
-Buddha

Answer 2

You see, the religious people — most of them — really think this planet is an experiment. That's what their beliefs come down to. Some god or other is always fixing and poking, messing around with tradesmen's wives, giving tablets on mountains, commanding you to mutilate your children, telling people what words they can say and what words they can't say, making people feel guilty about enjoying themselves, and like that. Why can't the gods leave well enough alone? All this intervention speaks of incompetence. If God didn't want Lot's wife to look back, why didn't he make her obedient, so she'd do what her husband told her? Or if he hadn't made Lot such a shithead, maybe she would've listened to him more. If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business if there was any competition.

Answer 3

All of the above mentioned attributes are of the ego, not God. It has long been the confusion of humanity to project all negative self-representations onto the ultimate Rorschach (ink-blot test), God.

Freud intuited this and rejected all negative beliefs of God as true, however made the mistake of entirely denying the existence of God.

As for the true attributes of God, the following list is cited from Dr. David R. Hawkins' "I: Reality and Subjectivity"

1. God is both manifest as the Totality and Allness of Creation and simultaneously unmanifest as the Godhead, the Infinite Potentiality and source or 'voidness' prior to form.

2. God is infinite beyond time or depictions of space or locality, without beginning or end.

3. God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient.

4. God is the source and substrate of consciousness.

5. God is the sole source of the energy of life.

7. God is the source and presence of peace, love, stillness, and beauty.

10. God is the ultimate context of which the universe and all existence is the content.

12. God is not within the province of the provable or the intellect.

13. God is the source and essence of the subjective state of 'I-ness' called Enlightenment.

14. God is descriptively immanent and transcendent.

16. The human experience of the Presence of God is the same in all ages, all cultures, and all localities.

Theology has attempted to know about God through epistemology and the philosophy of metaphysics, yet as has been noted, God is not subject to the linear. God is known directly through experiential reality as radical subjectivity. William James termed this experience "ineffable."

Answer 4

absolutely, now think about this: if He is all-knowing how is it that people claim that man has free will, aren't these two statements logical contradictions?
'If He is all knowing then it follows that He knows our future, therefore the future is determined. Since God cant know something that is false, the idea of free will doesnt exist for man because we cant do anything that goes against the predefined future that God has already seen. Logical contradictions, you cant believe in one without disbelieving the other.'

(paraphrased from the writings of Schick and Vaughn)

Answer 5

So now that you have vented your venom against those who believe in God, do you feel better?
Yes, in a roundabout way you are calling those who believe in God fools. Guess what? It does not matter to Him what you think. It makes no difference to the big picture.
So go on, wallow in that contemptible attitude and see where it will take you.

Answer 6

so true.
i've been trying to point this out many a time.

and they accuse atheists of not making sense!
proof religious belief is all based around denial.

Answer 7

he is definitely not love
ask those 6MILLION JEWS THAT MURDERED IN THE GAS CHAMBERS OF HITLERS DEATH CAMPS
they wear his chosen people
and he abandon them to die horrible deaths for no good reason
talk about a prefect plan
lmao

Answer 8

all very valid points.

maybe if and when you get the opportunity you can ask him yourself.

Answer 9

Don't forget bipolar!

"I love you!" "I smite you!"

"I'm happy with my creation." "My creation sucks. I'm flooding it."