God, according to biblical religions is not perfect. Hard to answer questions.?
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Temptation is the forbidden fruit.
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Not only that but God told Joshua to go into a certain city, I believe it was Jericho and kill everyone, and not to leave anyone alive. Sounds more like Bin Laden than a loving God. The Old Testament God has been painted to look rather savage and bloodthirsty. I consider the fact that the Bible was written not by God but by humans with agendas and ambitions.
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I find it hard to comment on this, because it is clever, well scripted and I suspect the questioner at some point had a belief in the Christian faith. I would agree with all your assertions, taking hombrage with the claim that you created earth. God is in all of us and are all of us. Ambiguous messages from organised religion are the bane of humanity.
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You ask a very good question. God at times seems inconsistent. God in the Old Testament was showing how Holy He is and that He does not tolerate sin. Pagans were sinful people who rejected God. They had to be dealt with severely. Granted the Jews also were sinful but God had chosen them as the people thru whom He would redeem the world.\n\nIn the New Testament God is showing His grace. Thru the Jews by way of the Jewish Messiah He provided a way for redemption and forgiveness.\n\nWe must never forget that God is Holy who cannot be in the presence of evil. He is just and wrathful and will execute His justice. \n\nGod is also merciful and gracious. He forgives those who come to Him thru the atonement of Jesus. \n\nJesus represents this truth. John 1:14 (NASB): And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.   \n\nGod is both Grace and Truth. \n\nHe is showing His wrath at the pagans but His grace to the Jews.  Remember God chose Israel. They did nothing to cause Him to choose them. That was a demonstration of God’s grace. And today He shows His grace to all who will come but He will show His wrath to all who reject Him.\n\nGod is consistently a God of grace and truth, justice and mercy, holiness and love, separate from His creation yet intimate with it.\n\nI hope that helps.
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The verses you quoted are just one of many contridictions the Bible contains.  The most blatant one is the one that claims the Bible is the literal word of God.  If so, the Bible could not say anything which could even be the least bit ambiguous.  This of course accepts the premise that God is perfect.  Either God is imperfect, or the Bible is not God's\n literal word.
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Another inherent contradiction found in all religions. \n\nP.S. - this answer gets me to Level 4.  Woo Hoo!
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god created man. and man is NOT perfect
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god is omnicient. he needs not to change his mind
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God did make rules but not every one follows them.
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Today, I think that most, if not all, organized religions are off the mark a bit.  To rephrase, while I am struggling with the notion of God, I know that I do not believe in the God that Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Bahai's belive in.  Today, I believe that if there is a God, that he/she/it pressed the "start button" and left us to work out the rest for ourselves.
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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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gods not an idiot. humans have to sin. to fullfill gods word. dont question it. just beleive!
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In the Old Testament he was reactive.  That's cause the people brought that out in him.  In modern times he is not reactive, but neither is he proactive; he's taken a wait-and-see attitude.  Why do you ask?  Are you an atheist looking for an argument?
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some religions may not accept such beliefs.
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God has always been more than fair if you look back through the Bible.  Even still people do evil things and can be forgiven by just simply asking.  Yes, this is how we want things in my opinion.
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This is why we are not to be unequally yoked as we are told in the Holy Bible. There is but one TRUE God. Serve Him only.\nhttp://planttel.net/~meharris1/mikescorner.html
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Christian god needs repairing and reshaping. I will be happy to repair her but I am busy with repairing the Jewish and muslim gods for the time being. After I repair the christian one, your problems will be solved ... believe me...