You have said absolutely nothing worthwhile concerning the horrid cruelty that "God" displays in the Bible. You've only given generic comments. I think it's safe to say that there is no refuting the evilness shown by your god in the Old Testament portion of the Bible.
God created the earth and people in goodness and perfection.
People willfully changed all that and brought evil into their lives.
Rather than destroy the people, God gave, and is giving, them a chance to be saved.
In the process of giving them that chance, God took control of evil just like He controls everything else.
God isn't somebody to trifle with. He holds you alive so that you can have the chance to be saved. You don't like the idea of being saved? Great! Keep it up. Keep on asking for the evil. God is giving, and He will ultimately give you the evil you are asking for, even though He would rather not have to. But He won't deny your wishes forever.
Perfection is not life, people are born with diseases, deformities, etc every single day not to mention our very chromosomes themselves become defective through time. So if your god created life, then he has created imperfect life, which means he is not a perfect god, but a faulty one. Do you see how your own comments go against you BADecker?
I have often wondered why God blames us for the thing that Adam and Eve did when they brought imperfection into the world. After all, it isn't fair, is it? that we all should suffer because of something that they did? But after listening to you, I am seeing that you, at least, are one of those who would have brought imperfection into the world just like they did. But don't feel too badly about it. Probably everyone would have become curious after awhile, and succumbed to the temptations of Satan, just like you are doing.
If you took a simple history class BADecker, then you'd know that Christianity has been one of the cruelest, evil religions on earth. Ever heard of the crusades? Or the constant corruption within the church for hundreds of years? Only recently has Christianity, with the help of this pope and the few previous ones(Kudos to them), changed it's course and become something slightly decent.
Yep! The old devil works overtime on Christians. They fail like everyone else. However, if you looked at the rest of history, you would see that misguided Christians are the least of the problem. Look in detail at the things that Genghis Khan and his hordes did throughout Asia and Europe. And his sons didn't stop, but carried it on worse than he did. And that is simply ONE non-Christian group.
Or think about the 60 to 100 millions that Stalin executed, mostly for nothing. And Hitler's 20 millions. The untold numbers that the South East Asian dictators murdered throughout the 1900s.
You are badly mistaken.
I am an agnostic, I believe there is 50% chance that a "God(s)" can exist, and a 50% chance that it doesn't exist. However, the chance of a "God" existing, being the one from any religion we know currently is equal to that of any god existing from any other religion we know currently, so that lowers the chance of the Christian god existing for example and makes it equal to that of the Egyptian God and Godesses because they each take up a portion of that 50% share chance that god might exist. So, to put it simply, all gods and goddesses from any religion we know today has an equal chance of existing as the next gods and goddesses from the other religions, which makes the chance of any of them existing, extremely low.
Think things like this all you want. Then, pick up your great strength, wisdom, and understanding, and grow yourself a couple of extra arms, one on each side of your torso, about midway between your shoulders and your belly button. Push real hard, now. They are coming. I know you are getting red in the face. But just a little longer.
The fact of the complexity of nature and the universe around us, in the midst of entropy which exists throughout, shows us that there is a Supremely Great God out there, Whatever or Whoever He might happen to be. This stuff didn't simply jump into existence because it felt like it wanted to.
Nobody understands God except a little. Study the Bible, the history of how it came into existence, the traditions that the people of Israel are firmly hanging onto to this day, and maybe you will start to see the wonderful Goodness that God is towards you by even allowing you to be able to read and post in this forum.
Do you get that? It means logically, the chance of "God" not existing is far, far higher than the chance of any God/Goddess from any known religion existing.
And with this post I will no longer respond to you. It's clear that you are delusional as you have yet to give me logical answers on the own hatred and evil shown in your Bible, along with the contradictory comments you yourself gave on your "God"'s perfection.
Good. Stop responding. At least until you get enough knowledge and understanding to know a little bit about that of which you are speaking.