He makes the world according to scripture then drowns it afterwards with a flood, then repenting that he had done so. If one really questions the bible with an open heart one could see that Man has made God in his image and not the other way around.
2007-06-13 04:54:31 · 15 answers · asked by NIHIL VERUM NISI MORS 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have actually read the bible many times in its entirety and I fully understand the words contained therein. The bible was written by man and therefore subject to the weaknesses of man.
2007-06-13 05:01:38 · update #1
Your reasoning is faulty. Killing innocent children is not mercy at all! You are in complete denial if you view the depiction of God in the bible as accurate. Killing innocent first born sons is complete sickness. Read the old testament and tell me with a straight face that my statement isn't true, its self evident
2007-06-13 10:58:15 · update #2
Sure it was. but don't try to convince a fundamentalist christian of that.... historically, it is simply the writings and musings of a group of starving stone age shepherds living in the middle east, called the Tribe of Israel, and its holy book is no different than that of any other tribe............ Man invented all gods...... It gave man a place to put all the things he didn't understand, and the more we know, the less important gods have become.... and yet, religion continues to poison everything.....
PS. and don't you just love these interpretation... they now are so different that what people would have said 200 years ago... now we have god being love, except where was the love, when 6 million Jews died? It used to be fire and brimstone, and burning forever, and now it is forgiveness and heaven..... Yet it is the same bible.... people really have never read it, and really don't understand the historical context of it..... and yet believe it... or at least believe the parts that are nice, and say the other parts are not... go figure.
2007-06-13 05:14:21 · answer #1 · answered by April 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
True.
There is no way to justify God's sudden change to accept Christianity which is rife with paganism. The entire Old Testament is about God trying to keep the Jews pure and safe from pagans and gentiles. Then 2000 years ago, he has a change of heart, and decides he wants to include the gentiles into his chosen fold, (he chose to send this message through a Roman oddly enough). He then chooses to use the Roman tradition to spread his new belief and adopt pagan rituals into his old Law.
It is far too drastic of a change for a God that is meant to be the same today, tomorrow and forever.
Although God did create Lucifer, knowing he would turn out bad and create the need for hell, so maybe God is just a sadist deep down inside, or maybe he doesn't really exist.
2007-06-13 12:04:45 · answer #2 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you have seen Lewis Black's second stand up on HBO he tells you.
His people (he is Jewish) wrote the old testament and they needed a god who was going to punish them to keep them in line.
but that is humor, the only real answer is what you want to believe. The old testament is full of war and hatred, so why would you not have a vindictive supreme being to get you out of sticky situations (Moses and the Flight from Egypt).
Some historians believe that it was written as way to describe the hierarchy of the day too. So they have a strong vindictive god to counteract the many Gods associated with the Roman, Greeks, Egyptians, and or the Norse races as well.
2007-06-13 12:01:03 · answer #3 · answered by darthlophus2004 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not see it that way. Old Testament time people were so different than people our days.
Free will opens the door for rebellion against God. We should learn from the mistakes people made in the Bible and not blame God to be this vindictive being. This is God's creation, we are here for His pleasure and for His purposes.
2007-06-13 11:59:26 · answer #4 · answered by Ulrika 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder how you would feel if your son turned out to be a violent murderer or rapist? Would you just stand idly by and let him continue doing his evil things--or would you, for the sake of humanity, and maybe even for the safety of the rest of your own family, seek to restrain his evil ways, by reporting him to the police for punishment? Would your heart not be grieved by what your own son had become? This is the way God felt thousands of times over when He looked on the earth during Noah's time.
"The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain."
He only found ONE man and his family who still cared about God and obeying Him. So He decided to save this man who still honored him and told him to build the ark.
"For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;" 2. Peter 2:5
Notice here that Noah is called "a preacher of righteousness". It took him and his sons about 400 years to build the ark...and while doing so, listening to the ridicule of his neighbors. I am sure Noah told the people why He was building the ark and that God's judgment was coming. People had 400 years to repent of their evil ways. After that time their grace period was up and judgment fell.
I don't find in my Bible that God repented of sending the flood. He promised, however, that He would never send a worldwide flood again.
2007-06-13 13:10:08 · answer #5 · answered by Friend of Jesus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible to view God this way, and it is also possible that you have misinterpreted God's Word. The difficult thing is to understand His overarching plan and to see how it all works together for the greatest possible good and for love. I would rather suspect that if man had invented the bible, these kinds of difficulties would have been left out.
2007-06-13 12:01:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God was sorry He created man in the first place because they got so bad! He wasn't sorry He flooded the earth and destroyed all the sin and sinners. God says of Himself , "I change not." He did give some conditional prophecies and didn't destroy cities if the people in them repented and turned from their evil ways.
2007-06-13 12:00:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you see as vindictive, I see as mercy and redemption. God can change, if he wants to! It is all in the reception of the reader! I am a positive creature by nature!!
2007-06-13 16:29:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same reason the Greek gods were unpredictable and sadistic. You see the same in every primitive mythology.
2007-06-13 11:58:18 · answer #9 · answered by Joe Blow 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Keep reading the Bible. You don't understand it, yet.
2007-06-13 11:57:34 · answer #10 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋