Gods Body Count

[xx_mortekai_xx]

It's adorable when Christians get a hard-on over the thought of everyone else perishing.

kinda clears up the confusion as to why they hang a symbol of an execution device all over their churches and around their necks, huh?

[truthreality]

im aware. I was making a joke.

I understand that I just wanted to make that point clear for everyone who reads this thread. We have the inspiration for the holocaust: the Bible.

[truthreality]

Ha. You aint seen nothing yet.

I have to say this is an incredibly disturbing statement.

[xx_mortekai_xx]

I have to say this is an incredibly disturbing statement.

well, his god IS a known mass murderer. Killed almost everyone on earth once.

I guess the reason David Berkowitz is still locked up is because his body count wasnt high enough.

[theophilus]

Would anybody here like to attempt to justify these actions beyond the slavish, "He created us so he has the right to slaughter us"?

He is a righteous judge whose justice and holiness require that he punish sin. All of us have sinned and deserve death but because of his mercy he has given us the opportunity to receive forgiveness by putting our faith in Jesus Christ. You should take advantage of this opportunity before it is too late.

[Jack]

He is a righteous judge whose justice and holiness require that he punish sin.

I see the god of Abraham as more a homicidal psychopath. If he can't act unrestricted by his obviously flawed interpretation of "justice and holiness" then he's certainly not the all-powerful god Christians want us to believe he is. He won't even accept responsibility for his own role in creating a flawed humanity. It's like he created a wine glass with a hole in the bottom and blames the glass for not being able to hold wine. The god of the Bible is either insane or malicious and in no case deserves to be called righteous.

All of us have sinned and deserve death...

And we do all die, even the most blameless among us, the newly born. It's the result of biology, not sin. "Sin" is just a misnomer for the human condition.

[truthreality]

He is a righteous judge whose justice and holiness require that he punish sin. All of us have sinned and deserve death but because of his mercy he has given us the opportunity to receive forgiveness by putting our faith in Jesus Christ. You should take advantage of this opportunity before it is too late.

Your entire argument is irrelevant to this discussion. This thread is about the atrocities of God of the Bible, not about salvation. You are like a broken record who says the same thing over and over again. I am not seeking salvation from an imaginary wicked dictator who engages in genocide.

[xx_mortekai_xx]

He is a righteous judge whose justice and holiness require that he punish sin. All of us have sinned and deserve death but because of his mercy he has given us the opportunity to receive forgiveness by putting our faith in Jesus Christ. You should take advantage of this opportunity before it is too late.

Your god sets up the rules, sets up the world, makes us supposedly in his image, then charges us with the sins of two people who make the mistake of *knowing things*, and throws us into an eternal torture dungeon if we dont beg for his forgiveness, and you think that that is merciful or just? what a twisted view of mercy and justice you have there.

[Peter]

He is a righteous judge whose justice and holiness require that he punish sin.

He owns you so he can judge and kill you. Wonderful reasoning.

All of us have sinned and deserve death but because of his mercy he has given us the opportunity to receive forgiveness by putting our faith in Jesus Christ.

I can't speak for you but I have never done anything in my life that deserves death.

You should take advantage of this opportunity before it is too late.

I truly appreciate your concern Theo and I have no doubt you truly believe it but IMO you are stark raving mad on this issue.

[xx_mortekai_xx]

I truly appreciate your concern Theo and I have no doubt you truly believe it but IMO you are stark raving mad on this issue.

I tend to use the word delusional, but the sentiment is exactly the same, i think.

[Questatement]

I wonder if all this is covered in bible study? Would anybody here like to attempt to justify these actions beyond the slavish, "He created us so he has the right to slaughter us"?

According to your beleifs, how and why does human life have value in the first place?

[Jack]

According to your beleifs, how and why does human life have value in the first place?

Human life has value to us because we are humans and we naturally value our own existence. Do humans have value to an ice worm, to the lion, to the planet Earth or the rest of the universe? No, I don't believe we do. Humans haven't been around all that long in the timeframe of the planet, and if we were to disappear tomorrow life would go on, the universe would continue to exist. Our egotistic assumption that we are somehow vital to the universe isn't grounded in reality.