Greetings to all--
Three little scriptures that I feel reflect the opposite of all that Christians claim biblegod to be. I merely asked a hard-core defender of the faith to justify these as actions of an all-loving, enlightened Supreme Being. Here they are along with the "explanations" of them (in a nutshell):
Daniel 6:24 What did the wives and children of Daniel's accusers do? Why were they slaughtered also? If that's mercy I will take heartlessness any day.
The closest we got was a guilt by association sort of thing. Sad.
2Kings 2:23,24 Is this how we treat children acting like children?
I thought the explanation of this story was very telling. See, it turns out this is not really as horrible and barbaric as it looks. They weren't really "children" but "young men". Also these "young men" had mocked another "young man" who spoke for God (so he claimed but hey, so does Shelby)--so they deserved to be ripped up by bears.
1Chronicles 21:14 70,000 people die by God's hand because David took a census. I fail to see the enlightenment here. Maybe someone as all-knowing as you can explain it to simple little me.
Well as it turns out David had done this census for "self-serving" purposes! Yes, it's true! He wanted to make himself look even more powerful than he was so he did this census and not all that accurately either! Surely then those 70,000 people had it coming!
Keep in mind what I went through to get these answers. Had to plow through and respond to yards of unrelated bible stories and their "justifications", received no answer until many days and posts later and then was answered with stuff other people had written. I was personally attacked often and then finally, after these "answers" were Reluctantly given, was informed this was just "dishonest baiting".
What it boils down to is this: there are countless tales of horror in the bible. Some of us just do not think they indicate an all-loving God, much less anyone displaying a shred of enlightenment. No matter how many pages of apologetics one posts the facts remain unchanged and the main one is that innocents are killed.
Another fact is that biblegod is portrayed as very angy. Anger is obviously one of mankind's basest imperfections. How can a Supreme Being fall victim to imperfect man's base, unenlightened weaknesses so often?
The last issue I would like to draw attention to is this: How insecure is this Supreme Being? Why would an all-knowing, all-loving picture of enlightenment create a planet and fill it up with people whose sole purpose on Earth is to worship him? Does this not indicate a highly disturbed severe case of narcissism?
I don't understand why it is Christians who tend to think they are so righteous and wise in their beliefs and so critical of those of us who cannot reconcile love with slaughter.
Wondering if there are an honest Christians--
Julie