so if God is behind all this what conclusion is best to draw from it, that God is a crazy guy who tortures ppl or is it that he punish's people for doing wrong (even if he is sorta forcing them to do wrong)?
There is a third option... It's all a nice story that was never meant to be examined too closely. How can Santa Claus visit all the houses of all the good children in a single night? How does the Tooth Fairy know when there's a tooth under my pillow? Belief in SOME god isn't necessarily going to fall apart upon really thinking it through, but the BibleGod just isn't a believable character, once examined. (My opinion only, of course.) Dave