The God of the Bible: friend/foe/fake?

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Wow, amazing, one of the best come backs I've seen in a long time. The word troll comes to mind. If you run out of verse to quote, there is always demeaning the person you can't refute. Bats? Lol, is that in the stoning or burning part? I keep a bat next to the door to run Christen missonarys from my property. Of course one look at the dog and they sort of forget their mission. But what I just wrote has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Next time read the book while sitting in your chair, I mean it looks good and all, but those funny squiggles mean something.

Me Christen? Hardly. But here's the thing, since I was raised in a Christen area, you hardly can escape from the dogma. Burning, stoning, stoning was cheaper, got lots of wood? Then burning is the best. The death penalty, one innocent person is one to many. Do we have the Christens to thank for it getting popular in America and bringing this into the fore front of our judical system? I think probably, although I recall Christ saying something along the lines of let the first man without sin cast the first stone. When the stone whistled through the air, he looked up to see his mom, he saidith "Damn Ma, I hate it when you do that". You'd stone a bat I bet, even if all it was doing was catching the bugs. By the way, they still stone people to death. Religon, a blight, bring back the coliseum, I bet it would top the ratings charts. I wouldn't watch it, but it would hit the top, moral majority like that s**t.

What is so interesting to me, is the books they left out of the Bible and the whys. Politics. Funny how the Book of Mary sounded an awful lot like the Buddha. But that's what you get when you mix pastoral religons with civilized, a freakin mess. Christ didn't screw it up though, he understood it. Just to simple for the rest to see what the hell he was talking about. Too bad he had to get the message across using a god head.

"Actually, Judaism pre-dates all religions. It began with the covenant between God and Abraham around 2,000 BC." Ragtime

Get a freakin clue. I have a culture in my back yard who left some remians, 3500BC ,about the time the pyrimids were being built and the east was in a golden age, the Americas had a huge rebirth as well. So actually you're about as wrong as they come.

Oh they left out the little story of how Adam and Eve populated the world. Care to guess? And yeah it was left out on purpose.

yes i like that quotation.
Dostoevski's Devils, also in Gangs of New York.

Jehova is both made up by men and an enemy to men.

Jehova wasn't an enemy to the men that made him up, though. Jehova was their EDGE!


Merle

Very very true!! !

I voted for the middle option, but only because I was considering the God of the New Testament, who seems like an alright sort of chap. The God of the Old Testament is a crotchety old git who demands obedience on pain of violent destruction (see: the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah, Passover, or the Flood).

Apparently age mellows him out a bit

As for the story of Genesis, the version in the Bible leaves out Lilith, Adam's first wife, who was removed from that role for the cardinal sin of wanting to be on top. Can't have sexually-aggressive women, can we...

the prideful one refuses to address these points.

Idiot, science grows and changes. Naturally, it evolves. Religion doesnt it was created. Science is 50/50 nature/human invention.

Religion poisons the mind, its like crack.

Well then, what makes people call people "idiot"? Is that science or religion? Maybe it's just your bad attitude . (Which, of course, religion has an explanation for, and science does not.)

I call people idiots, because they act ignorant of the whole of science. It angers me.

Psychology is a science and it has explanations for such things. Alas, you are wrong Ragtime.

I'm thinking that it was becoming a parent that changed him. I've seen a lot of people change when they have a child.

i would say the closest to proof is that many of the jewish stories and even jesus' stories are taken from older persian and babylonian myths but just adopted to be centered around a jewish main character. which is something that's proven through archeology and historic studies.


maybe there was a hebrew god but the writers didn't trust him so they just stole stories from other myths at the time...but i'm pretty sure the simplest answer is just "they made it up".

Like the Romans did with the Greek myths, you mean?

yeah!!