How would you answer?

Unfortunately, heretical Christianity has, for years, encouraged otherwise sane men and women, to gleefully anticipate death, misery, and eternal torment for a vast majority of earth’s populace. This is neither, healthy nor sane. It is madness, and madness of the most disgusting kind. I know that my words seem harsh here, but truly, this is an issue which has plagued the Church, and thus the world, for centuries.

My Blondness will be showing here but what exactly was the question?

That the God of the bible is a hypocrite and not the righteous God He claims to be. This reveals historical ignorance. God's judgement is righteous, not evil.

My Blondness will be showing here but what exactly was the question?

In essence, his question has been, for years, do we find our Lord in Jesus who refused to harm anyone, and told us to do the same, that if we have seen Him, we have seen the Father... or do we find him in the vengeful slaughterer of hundreds of thousands in the old testament?

Just like us, he also staunchly told people for years, "Both!" But, he has come not to be able to easily live with that answer anymore.

In essence, his question has been, for years, do we find our Lord in Jesus who refused to harm anyone, and told us to do the same, that if we have seen Him, we have seen the Father... or do we find him in the vengeful slaughterer of hundreds of thousands in the old testament?

Just like us, he also staunchly told people for years, "Both!" But, he has come not to be able to easily live with that answer anymore.

That the God of the bible is a hypocrite and not the righteous God He claims to be. This reveals historical ignorance. God's judgement is righteous, not evil.

Exert from a site:

Evilbible.com overlooks the historical evidences that these nations and cultures practiced the very things that evilbible.com decries as morally reprehensible. As just one example, the Assyrians who inhabited Nineveh during the time of Jonah were an incredibly barbaric and cruel people. When archaeologists uncovered Nineveh, the TV specials produced from their work had to be filtered because the evidence of brutality was so great. The discoveries unearthed facts such as how the Assyrians used to slowly impale their victims by sliding them down sharp poles, and that they also made handbags from their victim’s skins. In a stone pillar found at Nineveh, one Assyrian ruler boasted of “nobles I flayed” and “three thousand captives I burned with fire. I left not one hostage alive. I cut off the hands and feet of some. I cut off the noses, ears and fingers of others. The eyes of numerous soldiers I put out. Maidens I burned as a holocaust.” Such things certainly speak against evilbible.com’s claims that the people who fell under God’s judgment were innocent. Other examples include the inhabitants of Jericho who history has shown practiced child sacrifice, cultic prostitution, and much more.

Evilbible.com also overlooks the patience of God in dealing with such people. God always waited for the nations who ultimately experienced judgment to turn from their despicable ways and always warned them of the judgment that was coming. The book of Jonah describes God’s patience with the Ninevites, who finally did turn from their evil ways and avoided destruction. Other peoples and cultures could have repented of their sins, but they chose not to. As an example, the people of Amalek (described in 1 Samuel) routinely attempted to commit genocide against Israel, but were given 400 years by God to repent. But Amalek continued to commit their atrocities against Israel and so God judged them via Saul and the Israeli army.

site: Is God evil? Is the Bible evil?

Where did that come from? What the heck is Evilbible.com?

God's wrath is kindled by His love. That love protects, and if you read the exert I shared, God gave ample time for repentance to any wicked people He laid judgement upon.

Oh, its a site, atheist I think, against the bible and tries to paint God as evil. I shared it to show how God did His judgment righteously. lol People make claims of God committing atrocities, like in what you shared, but ignore context and righteous judgment.

God the Father is not bipolar, lol. His dealing with man has been altered by HIS plan of reconciliation where HE sent His Son to die on the cross for mankind's redemption. People seem to think our Heavenly Father is against us and Jesus stands in the distance, and yet Jesus was doing the Father's will. That seems to be forgotten. God is Love.

Willie this is a very good thing to discuss as long as it's not in the bdf:b His reasoning of this isn't wrong and God doesn't strike us with lightning for questioning his ways of punishment in fact he welcomes it because he understands how it doesn't make sense to us. I could answer it by saying our understand it like comparing our understanding of the word from an ant to a human but that doesn't help or answer the heart of issue and honestly seems like a response when we don't know the answer.

The question by many non believers is if God is so loving then why does he throw all who don't follow him into the lake of fire. I mean it's not an illogical question and kind of makes God seem like a self conceited being, I mean think about it he loves us soooo much but if we don't love him back or follow him or obey him we burn forever. Honestly this is perhaps one of the hardest questions to answer because it honestly makes sense as to why one would think that.

I don't know if this is the answer you are seeking but I wanted to give my understanding of it. if one has been a parent they learn that if you let them do whatever they please and if you never discipline them or punish them they can become the worst kind of people in all kinds of ways and if there is no consequence then it doesn't matter what anyone does. Just as if there is no heaven or not eternal life in the end anything we do doesn't really matter it doesn't affect anything when we are dead and few ever make their marks in history if we don't have a consequence for our actions on earth then why does it matter if we are good or bad if we follow him or seek our own life's pursuits?

Jesus is known as both a lamb and Lion, a lamb is meek and gentle but a Lion is strong fierce and is feared. if God was passive all the time we would not have any need to do anything for him we could live the most sinful life in the history of man kind and yet still go to eternal paradise. It's not that he enjoys showing his wrathful side or throwing us into the pit of fire in fact it hurts his heart when he has to but if he didn't we would live as we pleased we would do whatever we wanted without worry even if your a good person it would be unfair to only have this for the evil people and more than that he wants more than a good person he wants an actual relationship with us which is why just being a good person isn't enough

Truthfully? The two boys (I think it was two) who reached out to steady the ox cart with the ark in it when it hit a bump in the trail? An act instinctively done in protection and good faith. Zap! Dead on the spot.