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The God of the Bible is a enemy to mankind 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
The God of the Bible was made up by men 53%  53%  [ 16 ]
The God of the Bible is a friend to mankind 43%  43%  [ 13 ]
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27 May 2007, 9:39 am

Pretty self-explanatory, but feel free to elaborate.


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27 May 2007, 9:41 am

Made up by men.



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27 May 2007, 9:47 am

obviously the middle option is correct, so i voted for that.



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27 May 2007, 9:51 am

The God described in the Bible is a dictator.



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27 May 2007, 9:52 am

Sopho wrote:
Made up by men.

By men? What about women?
That is why God is male, isn't it?



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27 May 2007, 9:54 am

greenblue wrote:
The God described in the Bible is a dictator.

True, however the real question is whether or not he ends up being beneficial to those under him. After all, nothing says that a democracy is perfect.



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27 May 2007, 9:54 am

greenblue wrote:
By men? What about women?
That is why God is male, isn't it?

Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if the patriarchy had a lot to do with the religious beliefs.



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27 May 2007, 9:58 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
greenblue wrote:
By men? What about women?
That is why God is male, isn't it?

Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if the patriarchy had a lot to do with the religious beliefs.

well yes the preachermen have been told this repeatedly, but they dont seem to learn, what can you do? it gets boring keep telling em every time.



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27 May 2007, 10:03 am

The God of the Bible is.... the only logical answer to where humankind, and the earth, came from.



Up to this day, science has failed to provide a rational answer to explain how life and the earth was created... other than by an intelligent designer. Every popular theory science has ever provided has been proved false eventually... including evolution, natural selection, etc.



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27 May 2007, 10:06 am

ericmc783 wrote:
The God of the Bible is.... the only logical answer to where humankind, and the earth, came from.



Up to this day, science has failed to provide a rational answer to explain how life and the earth was created... other than by an intelligent designer. Every popular theory science has ever provided has been proved false eventually... including evolution, natural selection, etc.

ROFLMAO! :lol:



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27 May 2007, 10:09 am

ericmc783 wrote:
The God of the Bible is.... the only logical answer to where humankind, and the earth, came from.



Up to this day, science has failed to provide a rational answer to explain how life and the earth was created... other than by an intelligent designer. Every popular theory science has ever provided has been proved false eventually... including evolution, natural selection, etc.

How is that proven false? Isn't the other way around?
The creation in the genesis book doesn't have sense at all, does not have scientific reasoning. But that is because it was written thousands of years ago.



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27 May 2007, 10:23 am

If we wish to seriously consider the account of Creation as given in the Book of Genesis, then we must give equal weight to the consideration of the creation of the world by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.


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27 May 2007, 10:24 am

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
greenblue wrote:
By men? What about women?
That is why God is male, isn't it?

Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if the patriarchy had a lot to do with the religious beliefs.

You have a strong patriarch society, the judaism, in which their religion is monotheist, writing religious books and setting their rules and laws based in that type of system.

My point is that if that society would have been matriarch, then God would be a female figure today instead of a male, and the rules and traditions would be a lot different.



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27 May 2007, 6:29 pm

I voted The God of the Bible is a friend to mankind



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27 May 2007, 9:13 pm

I voted for the middle option.



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27 May 2007, 9:24 pm

the bible was made up by man. that's easily evident. the fact that so many other religions around the same time as christianity's formation shows that all christianity is is a theological version of puff daddy.