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Why the 'God' in the Bible is 'evil' or good?

I believe that the god of the bible is evil in a way, he created hell with the intention of putting people there. His reasoning for why people should be sent there is twisted too. Tell me what you think and why. Try not to offend anyone. IF YOU HAVE AN OPINION DO NOT POST IT AS A COMMENT.


  • Evil

    I believe that the 'God' of the Bible is evil. He sends people to Hell for not believing in him. He tells people that it is okay to kill witches. He told Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree that would give them knowledge. I believe the 'God' of the Bible is a very jelouse and selfish being.

    Voted for by Drabarno Ruv.
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  • The Bible has almost absolutely no likeness with God.

    The Bible God is indeed a strange one, and Christianity spends most of its time with its ad hoc reasoning drives working overtime to protect itself.

    There is no sense in this.

    There is no use looking for truth, good and evil in the Bible. You cannot justify any truth by using the Bible.

    Logically, you will all agree that anyone who justifies their beliefs using the Bible has terribly flawed logic. It's my old favourite: "God says he exists!" "And why do you believe him?" "Because he says so!"

    (It might also be worth bearing in mind that the Bible we know is a book written by man a few hundred years ago, much of which has had its orriginal meaning distorted.)

    If, then, the Bible is self-justifying, might it not follow that to search for good and evil within the Bible's account of the world, also be self-justifying?

    This is the only logical conclusion.

    This suggests that good and evil are merely human constructs, devised, as in the Bible, to promote an easier life fo all of us - nothing more divine or godly than that.

    I believe God, if the concept of God descibes some truth, then he/she/is outside of morality, outside of all human imagination - why should it make sense to describe God in human terms - in terms of good and evil, male or female etc?? Doesn't humanising God defeat the object?

    (This doesn't discredit our laws for good and evil. They are useful and valuble to humankind. But that is thier purpose. For *humankind*. Not Godkind.)

    This is why I think it follows that the Bible, whilst as a valuble book in how to live life (generally, minus homosexuality, seafood, fabric clauses ) is almost entirely false in its depicitions of God - as the cardinal image of man - as something like man.

    If we ever try describe God in these restricting human terms, as in the Bible, besides far too many contradictions arising, he/she becomes something less than god - and rather (comfortingly??) more human than we immediately realise...

    Voted for by ennoia.
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  • At One Point Hell Didn't Exist

    It should be remembered that Christianity is not the only religion to believe in a notion of hell. In fact, many ancient religions like those of the greek and the norse feature a type of hell where one goes to either 'work off' or 'suffer eternally' for their doings in their living life. Thus, you cannot say that hell was entirely the creation of God.

    In fact, most early Christians and all Jews didn't and don't even believe in hell as we popularly know it. Most Jews believe that, although some individuals, through the acts of their human life, are closer to God than others, there is usually no one case that one would be shut away from God for all eternity. Most Jews believe that 'hell' or, their term for it, Gehenna, is merely a place to 'work off' your sins, or, purgatory. Many Christians also believe in this in the form of purgatory. Early Christians also had a sense of either being embraced or rejected by God, but not in the idea of a centralized place where rejected spirits go (aka hell).

    Thus, you can't say that God really and truly created hell, because hell, as you can see in the texts, never really actualized until pretty late in the New Testament (and even this was written at least 200 years after Jesus' death). It's safe to say that, if any one thing about God is true, then it should be agreed to be true across time consistantly.

    In addition, what is so wrong with a concept of hell? Many many cultures believe in the idea of either being rewarded or punished. I would personally say that the idea of hell and heaven duality is a blessing, because, before this idea came along, it was popularly believed that EVERYONE went to hell when they died. The ancient Sumerians believed that you were going to suffer no matter what in the afterlife. So heaven and hell actually give a person a reason to believe that there might be something better waiting at the end of the line, and not just suffering or death.

    I think that since the idea of hell is so popular across all cultures, that anyone who thinks that hell is a bad idea or is a symbol of the injustice is simply afraid of going to hell or is unable to do what it takes to get to some sort of heaven. Quite frankly, it's not hard to get to heaven along Christian standards. It basically involves being nice to people, not killing other people, believing in God, and so forth. Nothing extremely taxing, if you ask me, and mostly doable too. In addition, the Christian God is generally thought of as an extremely forgiving God, which means that he will often overlook your failures.

    So, as long as you MEAN to be a good person and TRY your hardest to be a good person, theoretically, you shouldn't have anything to be worried about.

    Voted for by holloweyed.
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  • God

    The God of the Bible is not evil. True, He created Hell, but people have the choice to not follow Him and therefore choose to go to Hell. His reasoning for people going to Hell is not twisted, it is simple. If you don't believe in God, you will not go to Heaven, and therefore you will go to Hell.

    Voted for by NeedsLNow.
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  • OK

    I don't know if he created hell, or not...I'm not sure who did, if he did it was to put the fallen angels there not people, none of us were supposed to go there, but than the whole thing in the garden, and Satan doing his triking, and people messing up, and not doing what there supposed to. Hang around bad people long enough and chances are you'll go bad...yeah you might change them but its likly going ot be you that changes. And the whole thing about trying your hardest and doing whats right, wont do any good about whare your going if you don't have Love, Faith, and Jesus (bit of my Christain upbringing).

    Voted for by -Forgoten-.
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