Examples:
1. Two people disobey god, so god punishes them and all of their children for untold thousands of years (Adam and Eve)
2. Some people in one part of the world are being bad, so god drowns the entire earth, killing innocent babies, children, and animals (Noah)
3. Pharaoh won't let Moses' people go, so god passes through egypt personally killing the first born male of all the egyptians from the lowest servant to pharaoh's own son, including their livestock (passover).
Is god a little extreme, and the greatest mass-murderer in history?
Or is it more plausible that he just doesn't exist?
2007-06-25 09:54:20 · 13 answers · asked by atheist jesus 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's BUNK!
2007-06-25 09:59:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
First of all, if I were to answer your first question, " Why does God overreact "., I'd have to be in direct contact with God. I am not. Only he could tell you why he does, whatever it is that he does. Anything that I would say, or anyone else would say, would only be a guess.
Does he exist ? Of course, very much so, but only in the imaginations of the very superstitious. I personally am a strong follower of nature. I, you, and all other living things on earth come from nature, and will return to nature after death.
2007-06-25 18:56:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lilmissykato said "the entire world was bad, excluding noah and his family".
Hasn't anyone ever wondered about this? EVERYONE in the ENTIRE world was bad except for this one family? Even Native Americans in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres who had never even had the chance to hear about Jehovah or his rules for living a pure life?
Isn't that rather cruel to punish them simply because of where they happened to live?
2007-06-25 17:02:01 · answer #3 · answered by Mathsorcerer 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Wow, How depressing to go thru life believing everybody and everything is bad so god is justified in doing what he wants. Why even try to be good? It doesn't matter we are all bad. How extreme and depressing. And this is from a god who supposedly loves us.
2007-06-25 22:17:31 · answer #4 · answered by punch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The other day I told my Grand-baby, "You touch Nan-Nan's vase and Nan-Nan will spank". She touched and Nan-Nan spanked. God told Adam, 'You, touch the tree you will bring a curse upon the land". Adam touch and God curse the land. Now if Nan-Nan had not spanked the Grand-baby, she would have thought that Nan-Nan is lying and I can do anything I want to. IF God had not curse the land, Adam would have thought, God is lying and I can do anything I want to. However, God being more merciful then Nan-Nan has given mankind a way out from under the curse, He is call Jesus Christ.
2007-06-25 20:19:29 · answer #5 · answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you have a go at reading the New Testament starting with the Gospels, you will find that God loves us so much that His son Jesus Christ offered himself to be sacrificed so that our sins may be forgiven-if we ask sincerely for them to be pardoned. There is no love greater than this-to give ones life to save another.
2007-06-25 18:32:16 · answer #6 · answered by Birdman 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Two people refuse to listen to their Creator and bring death upon us all ... remember the warning "for surely you will die". And here you are, thousands of years later, still not accepting fault.
2. No one with intelligence believes it was the whole world, not even the Bible says that in its original writings. The whole area was bad, and yet, here you are, thousands of years later, still blaming God.
3. I'm sorry but you skipped a bunch of plagues and forewarnings. I believe there were 7? So, 7 times the Creator of the Universe says "let 'em go" and you refuse ... and yet here you are, blaming God AGAIN.
I think you must be in total denial :)
2007-06-25 17:07:51 · answer #7 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
He is God, he created everything. Why wouldnt he be upset if he lovingly created all things for people to disobey him and turn away from him.
2007-06-25 17:07:35 · answer #8 · answered by C 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Or, let's think here. Are you healthy? Are you dying from any deadly disease? Is your family safe? Do you have food in your frige? Do you have a job? Do you have a car that works? Do you think all this comes to you out of luck? Think about it for a minute.....he is protecting you and looking out for you everyday. Instead of calling him a murderer can you thank him for all he has given you?
2007-06-25 17:15:00 · answer #9 · answered by sassygirl2473 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
because of the sin they did cain, able, and seth were born with sin and so on
The entire world was bad, excluding noah and his family.
It was the bad people's first born that would die, if they lived they would be just as bad.
2007-06-25 16:57:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
because he just doesnt exist!!! if i had two sons and one sinned all the time. i would not kill the innocent one just to forgive the ****** up one
2007-06-25 17:03:32 · answer #11 · answered by hightimes907 the 420 Atheist 2 · 4⤊ 4⤋