If God is supposedly "universal" how come he revealed himself to ethnic groups to create wars?

Answer 1

Isn't it interesting how this sky fairy didn't reveal himself to the bulk of humanity, just a few in the middle east.

Answer 2

He likes small corners of one specific content too! the yankee Indians did no longer get the memo, nor the Mayans, or Aborigines, or Africans, etc. He easily hasn't shown himself to a pair very clever scientist, who're the two eloquent as nicely as charismatic. you prefer to coach a god exists... undemanding... Write one indestructible e book, that's usually understood completely by applying no remember who reads it. No language obstacles, no actual thank you to misread the regulations. you in basic terms study English, or Spanish, no problem, the e book won't be written as plenty because of the fact the archives is 'transferred' to you, unaltered, and correct sort. Such an merchandise is impossible for a human to create, yet for an all powerful god? No problem! I mean come on... A below the impression of alcohol goat herding ignorant fool would desire to arise with a extra applicable way of spreading 'the word'. --no longer superstitious

Answer 3

Even though H.I 's enterpretation of bible passages are really off the mark, I can tell by his answer the he believes in God, even if only in a hateful manner. Btw, what makes you say that God is supposed to be universal. Isn't that just a way of setting up your question just for the purpose of defamation.

Answer 4

Who told you 'god' is supposed to be universal? YHWH is a Semitic war deity - he has no sympathy for anyone other than the Jews. Anyone who thinks differently needs to read their bible again. That deity promotes genocide in parts of the Old Testament.

Answer 5

I don't understand your source thought but can only say that it is the groups that have "used" God to justify their own violence, prejudice, power and ambition. God is NOT a part of this.

Answer 6

All cultures have anthropomorphized their gods into humanoid (if sometimes grotesque) form. Were the Jews the exception? Hardly. We know precisely what the Hebrew god looked like. We are, after all, fashioned in his own likeness. He was a man, no doubt looking remarkably like the bearded sage asking us to worship him. He has body parts: eyes and a face (‘they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes’ – Jeremiah 16.17); nose and a mouth (Psalms 18.8); lips, tongue and breath (Isaiah 30.27,33); loins (Ezekiel 1.27); even ‘back parts’ (Exodus 33.23). He also has several ‘human’ emotions, manly appetites, and a worrying disposition towards pathological violence.

Yahweh feels regret for his own evil (‘And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.’ - Jonah 3.10); and grief (at the wickedness of men) (‘and it grieved him at his heart’ - (Genesis 6.6). He actually gets down and wrestles with Jacob, dislocating his thigh (Genesis 32.24). He forgets (he goes on calling Jacob ‘Jacob’ even after re-naming him ‘Israel’ - Genesis 35.10, 46.2). He practises favouritism (choosing the Israelites ‘above all people’ - Exodus 19.5; but he just does not like Cain or Esau!). He holds grudges (‘I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation’ – Exodus 20.5).

For an omniscient god he is surprisingly unknowing (‘They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not.’ – Hosea 8.4). And for an omnipotent god he has his limitations (‘The Lord was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had chariots of iron.’ - Judges 1.19).

And after his creation of the world, he even has to rest from his labour (‘And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work’ - Genesis 2.2) – to the endless bemusement of pagan critics, whose own gods didn’t need to rest!

The most disturbing aspect of Yahweh’s humanoid personality, however, is his blood-lust. The smell of burning flesh is a ‘sweet savour unto the lord’ – so sweet, in fact, that the phrase appears in the Old Testament no fewer than twenty-three times. The butchery demanded by god is truly monumental. Believers are required to sacrifice two lambs day-by-day continuously – and that’s just for starters! Just as well Yahweh had several thousand priests to help him trough through the banquet!

Livestock bears the brunt of god’s appetite but humans could so easily get the chop from the big guy. God kills Uzzah for simply steadying the tumbling Ark (1Chronicles 13.9,10). Poor Onan was zapped for using the withdrawal method of birth control (Genesis 38.10). But such isolated vindictiveness palls in comparison with the mass killings of the Lord. When the autocratic Moses faces a rebellion led by Korah, God uses an earthquake and fire to consume two hundred and fifty rebels. When indignant sympathizers protest at the injustice, God wipes out another fourteen thousand seven hundred with a plague (Numbers 16). What a guy!

Answer 7

If God existed, he would be a parent who picks favorites. A sure way to cause hatred, jealousy and battles. It doesn't make sense, does it?

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Answer 8

That is backwards logic, people became divided from each other because of sin.

God inteneded for us all to have fellowship with HIm freely and with each other in peace and harmony but our greed brought about the expulsion from eden

Answer 9

Every religion claims to have had God's revelations.

Answer 10

God did not create war. satan, demons, and we humans created war.