Do you think that Jehovah has a "split" personality one good and bad?

booker-t

I have heard for many years that Jehovah God has a "duel" personality. One is good and the other is evil. I don't believe this but sometimes I wonder maybe my atheist dad has some good points. My dad has for years told me that Jehovah allows people to suffer because he enjoys watching people in misery. He believes that Jehovah could put a stop to all of the suffering mankind has gone through but he does absolutely nothing. He feels that Jehovah is up there laughing at all those so-called religious people making fools of themselves trying to serve a God that just does not care about them. Many first century christians were slaughtered by lions in the collesium and Jehovah allowed it. Was this his "bad" personality allowing it to happen. I know this sounds crazy for my dad to say this but he is a "devout" atheist/agnostic and he has no shame in "bashing" Jehovah. To me it is "blasphemous" to insult Jehovah but my father tells me that Jehovah deserves to be put down because he is not different than Satan the Devil. Posters what do you think about this topic?

daystar

When you believe, like I do, that gods are primarily mental material, and amoral, then there really is not much to be confused about.

diamondblue1974

'I dont want to cause any blasphemous rumours, but I think that God has a sick sense of humour and when I die I expect to find him laughing...' M Gore.

M.J.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge

Yahweh

Some Gnostic philosophers (notably Marcion of Sinope) identify the Demiurge with Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament, in opposition and contrast to the God of the New Testament. Still others equated the being with Satan. Catharism apparently inherited their idea of Satan as the creator of the evil world directly or indirectly from Gnosticism. Or, they may well have gotten the idea directly from the New Testament, which refers to Satan as "The God ['ho theos'] of this age" in Second Corinthians 4:4. Also, the New Testament asserts that the "whole world lies in the power of the evil one" in 1 John 5:19. Though nowhere in the New Testament is the creator of the world or the universe identified as Satan, although Yahweh declares in Isaiah 45:7 that He "makes good and creates evil [Hebrew "ra"]. Nor in the old or New Testament is nature or earth created by the creator referred to as evil, unlike the so-called Gnostic "sectarians." (Unless one sees the attribute of Creatorship as inherent in the concept of "God," and therefore the title "The God of this Age" applied to Satan becomes a powerful indicator that Satan is indeed the creator. Other modern-day Cathars see a further indication of this in the epithet "Kosmokrator" [Koine Greek, kosmokratoras, which literally means cosmos-sovereign, or even cosmos-might] which is applied to Satan in Ephesian 6:12, as a further indication of the creatorship of Satan and his identity with the Demiurge)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism

Many atheists, agnostics, and secular humanists agree with Marcion's examples of Bible atrocities, and cite the same passages of the Old Testament to discredit Christianity and Judaism. [16] Some Christians agree with Marcion that the Old Testament's alleged approval of genocide and murder are inappropriate models to follow today. Others, such as Gleason Archer and Norman Geisler, have dedicated much of their time to the attempt to resolve these perceived difficulties.