No, he's just written that way.
God doesn't exist. He's just a superstition.
2007-08-08 10:34:24
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answer #1
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answered by nondescript 7
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No, he isn't. If you understood the scriptures in the Old Testament in DEPTH, you would know exactly why God was doing what he was doing that makes him to appear to be a mean bully. It all starts with Genesis ...........
Genesis 6
1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with [a] man forever, for he is mortal [b] ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
EXAMINE WHAT THIS IS REALLY TELLING YOU
Why did God send the judgment of the Flood in the days of Noah? The strange events recorded in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women-known as the Nephilim. This was far more than simply a historical issue, the unique events leading to the Flood are a prerequisite to understanding the prophetic implications of our Lord's predictions regarding His Second Coming. This is believed to have happened both before the Flood and after the flood. In Israel at the time of David, and before this when the Hebrews were scouting the land - there were tribes of these Nephilim - Goliath the giant of Gath is one example. Early Church fathers also understood this to be the case. It appears that these fallen angels were active all over the world. These bizarre giants living on the earth are also echoed in the legends and myths of nearly every ancient culture. The ancient Greeks, the Egyptians, the Hindus, the South Sea Islanders, the American Indians, and most all the others have these legends.
The Hebrew word Nephelim (plural of nephel) (Nephilim) literally means "rejects". The Hebrew plural for Nephites would be "Nephi'im".
2007-08-09 06:42:44
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answer #2
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answered by Gardener for God(dmd) 7
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The God portrayed by the Old Testament - definitely a bully.
The one in the New Testament - as another answer said, it offers a path to salvation but from what? From God's damnation. So yes, again, a bully.
But the Bible is an anachronism. If there's a God he/she/it is far, far more than anything written in there. I don't see THAT God as a bully.
2007-08-10 08:01:47
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answer #3
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answered by SolarFlare 6
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no, he's like a loving father guiding his children to do what will make them content. Like all children we can ignore his advice and he won't interfere with that, but some choose to believe that God knows best because it's his world and he created us in his image, therefore when I mess up I can be safe in the knowledge of his loving guidance putting back on the right path.
2007-08-08 22:54:12
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answered by good tree 6
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If there is a higher intelligence that could be considered a 'God' (and not the humanised 'God' of the Judeo-Christian Bible), I suspect it doesn't give a monkey's about the human race, so the concept of it being a bully is pretty redundant.
2007-08-08 11:36:20
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answered by john g 5
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We are happy to point out that, yea, it is True, and that's why we love God!
We especially love the burning in torment and torture for ever and ever if you slip up just a little and get God's name wrong or don't know to ask forgiveness. Any abuse counselor knows that these are the ways of the abuser to have capricious and arbitrary rules that are by all means impossible to follow because to follow one rule is to break another. Best of all, you are bad before you even got a chance for personally responsible screw-ups! So you can be beaten before you even do any intentional wrong!
Also, there is so much talk about being saved, but from what? God's damnation! It's perfect!
God is so vicious and great for that!! We grovel before His great majesty so that we are not beaten down for giggles!
2007-08-08 10:35:57
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answer #6
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answered by urukorcs 3
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Yes, considering the may most people seem to conceive god. Submit to his will or you'll feel his wrath. Sounds a lot like how school yard bullies shake down kids for their lunch money.
2007-08-08 10:42:19
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answered by Subconsciousless 7
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Is god a bully? It would be interesting to ask Adam & Eve that question when they were thrown out of the garden. Or Pharoah when god murdered his firstborn. Or all the people that died in Noah's flood.
If you could create living creatures with free will would you torture and kill them when they displeased you?
2007-08-08 10:42:40
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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Have you got an angel standing there hitting you over the head, telling you what to do little boy?
2007-08-08 11:09:29
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answered by Cap'n Blood 1
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As there is no god then he cannot be a bully. For skilled and blatant bulliying I suggest you look at the followers of this nonexistent nonentity.
2007-08-09 00:52:39
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answered by Freethinking Liberal 7
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A very good description. If you read the bible, carefully, as I have, the god that emerges is a capricious, petty, bloodthirsty, psychotic idiot. How anyone can feel compelled to worship such a bastard, except out of grovelling fear, is beyond me! The underpinning message, the 'gospel good news', is essentially, 'worship me or die horribly!'
2007-08-08 10:37:17
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answered by Avondrow 7
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