Original Scripture? Or Hoax? (Part Two)
By: Seeker
A part of my early problems with the orthodox story had to do with how God behaved. To be frank, he seemed schizophrenic at the best of times. At other times he was flat out psychotic.
Note I am not saying your particular God is that way, just that the biblical descriptions of what went on portray him as such. We all know (or should) from News reports how often the person being talked about is not at all like the way the media describe them.
But a God who creates people whom he KNOWS will be tempted by a commandment to not do something, and then places that something within reach is sadistic. If God knows All, why didn’t he show up when the serpent was persuading them and argue the defence side of things? How fair is it to set things up so the humans will not only have immense curiosity about the forbidden thing, but they then have to withstand the persuasions of someone who, from other stories, could apparently fool even God?
To then punish them for failing the test, with no chance to re-sit the exam is bad enough, but to go on to punish every single human ever to be born for the same mistake is psychotic beyond any definition we humans might have.
Now personally, I cannot believe in such a God, so early on I decided either there is not a God or the stories are wrong. ‘Not a God’ opens a whole other can of worms about origins and some of the strangenesses that exist in our world, and even Occam says that the path to choose is that the stories are simply incorrect.
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