Stop! There you go! ALL OR NOTHING. Apparently your god is so inept he cannot moderate his output/teaching. It's like 100% or 0%-- there is no moderation possible, in your picture of god.
Unlike an ordinary kitchen faucet....
I have to admit, i was making my point using a all or nothing illustration, just to paint the picture vividly.
However, this trickling and moderating his revelations you speak of, well, thats what we
already have now in the human race.
Yet? Your god had zero problem halting the SUN in the SKY that one time, so his hero can keep slaughtering people.
And your god had zero problem magicking up mass quantities of water, so he could drown the whole forking WORLD that other time.
It seems your god is incapable of TWEAKS-- but instead -- MASSIVE OVER EFFECT.
No WONDER your god cannot be ... convincing. He is absolutely inept, as a god.
All the subtlety of a giant bolder rolling down a round tunnel....
Lol....those things WER the moderating. If he let lose more then that, the planet would he obliterated.
Hey, I'm not god-- but I'm capable of dialing it back for the audience: I don't give quantum physics lectures to 3 year olds, for example.
God CURRENTLY has it dialed modestly.
Right. When he drowns all the kittens on the planet, in a fit of pique, because people were behaving exactly as he made them to behave... real humility... NOT!
No, only noah and his family wer behaving as he wanted.
Nope. That's a JOKE: An immortal being cannot comprehend what it means to face death-- because being immortal? He cannot actually die.
Well in that sense we cannot actually die then either BEING A SPIRIT IN a body.
So, God takes on a body, incarnates. The body is what dies. So, he feels what we feel.
Not really. It's actually making fun of us mere mortals-- an immortal god pretending to be "human", while not actually being human.
In that light, if we are spirits in bodys, then we are pretending to be human too. See how much sense that makes?
Except when he doesn't, and murders all the first born babies-- more than once.
Except? So, at a minimum you admit he did show mercy. Which has humble overtones.
Pharough killed isreals firsborns. God designed and instituted the law of karma. This law applies nomatter what. So, what did egypt reap? There own firstborns dying.
Except when he doesn't, and has his Minions murder everyone, all the men, boys and boy-babies. All the non-virgin women too. Only the virgins are kept as sex slaves. That's neither compassion nor mercy...
The people in canaan, remember some of them wer the nephalim. Hybrids. Not fully human. Human/angel hybrids.
Second, God wanted the other humans dead because of there evil practices, one of which was sacrificing there own babies to the god moloch.
Thirdly, the land was stolen from isreal. So, this was payback/take back.
Fourthly, isreal had to take care of there own babies, they could not be burdened with others.
5th, If you kill the dads and let the boys grow old, then they will take revenge.
Except that they do not. All Powerful God cannot be humble, and isn't. It's all "worship me or be tortured". That's about the max level of arrogance you can be...
I dont interpret the bible to be eternal torture. So, this argument dont apply to my view. As for worship, its obey him or be punished, yes. Its his universe, his kingdom.
Except that the bible also says "the fear of god is the beginning of wisdom", so god demands FEAR in his followers.
Fear there dont mean terrified, it means respect for God.
Naturally: If you don't bow down like a slave? Torture. The opposite of 'humble'.
You dont need to bow to be a slave, you already ARE his slave. Why? Because he got you by the balls bob.
That's not MY position! I absolutely do not claim "something from nothing" or "random chance"!
That would be... silly! In fact? Neither do modern astrophysics make either claim.
Straw Man.
You may not claim it, but i know some atheists that have. But if you dont, well, thats good then.
Where's your evidence of god? What's that? You got ... nothing?
I gave the evidence/inferences/logics. You cant show a blind man the beautiful sunset. You could try to explain it to him all day, but it will never do justice and he will never see it.
By the way? It's the bible that claims "something from nothing"-- literally Gen 1.1 states that.
I dont believe genesis states that. I believe God created OUT OF HIMSELF. From WITHIN himself. And his self is not nothing.