There are so many reasons why a perfect god doesn't make sense when combined with the bible's teachings, that I don't know where to begin. God cannot be perfect in accordance with the bible's teachings. A perfect being is so much beyond your imagination, that trying to understand what he would be like is beyond your ability anyway, so why even try and guess what he would be like, when obviously he cannot be the HUMANLIKE God as described in the Bible.
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You missed the biggest point of all, Man wrote the Bible, It has lost and been added to over thousands of years in translating the bible. God himself is perfect, his Creation's just got a little lop sided is all.
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God appears to be quite a sexist bit of work. Could be jealousy.... as a 'masculine' deity, he can't give birth.Maybe he could do with a bit of balance. (shrugs)
671736
God is a little "bigger" than we are. We don't understand everything about Him and most of us go through life recognizing that there are things that our human minds cannot comprehend. We just accept the simple teaching of the Bible and wait until we will see clearly as I Cor 13 tells us,"12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
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God says that he IS the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega. By his own Word, he had a beginning. It is simply not for us to understand. We, as humans, are limited in our knowledge. God is omnipotent.
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The men who created God have showed the faults of their intellect and understanding of what was really going on. We have since learned that some of the things that they thought were wrong. They were dummies. So when mistakes are found in the Bible  people will come up with all sorts of self created explanations and excuses. Just look at some of the ridiculous answers they have given here.
200075
God is also omnipotent, which means He knows all, so he could not do something that goes against his nature, or create something that is more powerful than Himself. He is Awesome!
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More importantly, and I suspect this is what you're getting at, why would a god who wants worship set himself up to be totally illogical and irrational? I think that if there was a god controlling it all, we'd be somehow predispositioned to believing in him, rather than having to ignore all logic and reason just to get into heaven.
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Agreed.  I don't think the biblical god is God, if there is a god.  I don't think god would be a spiteful, vengeful, mysterious god.  If there is a god (and I am open to the possibility), then it would be a nice god.
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The God of the Old Testament certainly exhibits a violent nature. He is truly not a God of love or compassion. I notice his personality makes drastic changes from time to time. The more I study the Bible, the more I am coming to think that it is no more than myth.
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god is what it's faithful want it to be. It's the perfect idol. They can carry it, talk to it, offer themselves for judgement, pretend it hears, and pretend to be guided. It has no face or body but its hypothetic son's, has no house but the one people built for it, has no color, race or language but the one people gives to it. No wonder it's uneradicable. You suppress it here and it'll grow stronger there, especially where there is misery. In short: god is a metamorph...
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God is a figment of mans imagination, therefore he is whatever you think he is. Imagine he changes and he changes.
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You are assuming that God is limited to what we think of Him.  That is wrong.  God could not do anything that will limit his abilities, including what you ask.\n\nRead this for further clarification:\n\nGod and Omnipotence\nThe paradox of the stone, as presented by Wade Savage:\n1. Either God can create a stone that God cannot lift, or God cannot create a stone that God cannot lift – there are no other possibilities. \n2. If God can create a stone that God cannot lift, then there is at least one thing that God cannot do (i.e., lift that stone). \n3. If God cannot create a stone that God cannot lift, then there is at least one thing that God cannot do (i.e., create that stone). \n4. From the combination of 1, 2 and 3, it follows that there is at least one thing that God cannot do. \n5. If God is omnipotent, then God can do anything. \n6. Therefore, God is not omnipotent. \n\nWhat this argument apparently shows is that omnipotence is impossible (or, that the notion of omnipotence is incoherent). Thus, God cannot be omnipotent (as nothing can be).\n\nSuggested solutions to the paradox St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274):\nAquinas defines as “absolutely impossible” any thing where the “predicate is altogether incompatible with the subject” (his example: “man is an ***” (in the non-metaphorical sense)). With this in mind:\nWhatever implies contradiction does not come within the scope of divine omnipotence, because it cannot have the aspect of possibility. Hence it is more appropriate to say that such things cannot be done, than that God cannot do them.\n\nThat is, to be omnipotent involves being able to do all things that are possible. For example, it is not considered a limit to my powers that I cannot draw a square circle. That’s impossible, so it’s no failing that I can’t do it – it cannot be done.\n\nBUT: surely I can make a thing that is too heavy for me to lift, so that task is not impossible, so if God can’t do it, that really is a limit to his power.\n\nGeorge Mavrodes (1926-):\nMavrodes responds that although “a stone too heavy for Simon Cushing to lift” is not a contradictory notion, “a stone too heavy for an omnipotent being to lift” is a contradictory notion.\nMavrodes’s argument in full:\n1. Either God is omnipotent or he is not. \n2. If God is not omnipotent, then the fact that he cannot do something (either make or lift the stone) is unsurprising. \n3. If God is omnipotent, then, by definition, there necessarily cannot be a stone that is too heavy for him to lift (otherwise he would not be omnipotent). \n4. If there necessarily cannot be such a stone, then it is an impossibility. \n5. By Aquinas’s reasoning, even an omnipotent being cannot perform impossibilities. \n6. Therefore, by definition, inability to create a stone too heavy for one to lift is no barrier to being omnipotent. (In fact, only non-omnipotent beings can create objects too heavy for themselves to lift.) \n\nBUT: both Aquinas and Mavrodes assume that God cannot do impossible things. Is this right? Descartes, for one, thought not. Descartes believed God could make 2+2=5. Why? Because otherwise you are suggesting that God is bound by the laws of logic. But if God created the laws of logic, why should he be bound by them? Couldn’t he have made them differently?\n\nHarry Frankfurt:\nHowever, if we assume that God can do impossible things, then God can create a stone too heavy for him to lift (which is supposedly impossible). Furthermore, if he can do that, then he can go one stage further and lift that stone (also impossible – but what’s the difference between doing one impossible thing and doing two?) \nBUT: doesn’t that mean that the stone he created was not a stone too heavy for him to lift, and that we’re back to the situation of him being unable to create such a stone? Not according to Frankfurt:\nIf an omnipotent being can do what is logically impossible, then he can not only create situations which he canno
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In one way, Bible is God's letter of introduction. He described His character through the Bible so that people may know Him. I don't think that He would allow His character to be misrepresented by wrong translations, cause it is His character we, people, can rely on (among other things). If God is omnipotent, I am sure He could and can find a way to prevent some catastrophic errors to appear in the Bible which would lead its readers into wrong assumptions and beliefs.
578202
Truth is true whether we understand it or believe it. You said yourself, something is true or it isn't. It can't be both. People are fallible. Nobody has perfect understanding. All we can do is share what we believe to the best we understand it. God communicates through imperfect people, through nature, through the Bible. He will be found if you look for Him. But there is still some mystery to it. It requires faith, not every question has an easy answer
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there is evidence of God. look at some of the crazy things that happen that just don't seem possible. and what about the Bible? If you can't believe a Book that is the Word of God, how can you believe anything? even science, since man came up with it and man is not perfect? if there is a God (and I believe there is) than it only makes sense that He be perfect. but man is not. I personally would trust God any day.
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No it isn't a good plan since it probably wasn't God's plan to begin with. The Bible was created by the church and by religious leaders. So the way God reaveals himself to humans is through personal experience with each one. Of course most of us won't realize that He is doing so.
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Here's another noodle-baker.  If God is all powerful and all-benevolent, why is there evil in the world at all?  Either he is not all powerful (if he were he would have no evil) or else is not all-benevolent. (He could wipe out evil but chooses to allow evil things to happen anyways, something a loving and good God would not allow.)\nTake your pick, either way God is not all-perfect.