Did God create the universe to wait 9 billion years to have earth, then wait 4 billion years for life to evolve into humans, then wait hundreds of thousands of years so he could give his message to one chosen people in one region of the globe on one spec in our galaxy, then, because they "sinned," genocide all of them except for one family and have that specific family reproduce to recreate humanity?
Ahh....so now we’re getting to the reason behind this thread. Good!
Time has no effect on Jehovah, according to the Bible. (2 Peter 3:8) But He’s established natural Laws that ‘govern’ events. — Job 38 33.
The Bible would not present such a candid, graphic description of Jehovah’s actions, if it’s goal was to deceive people.
Yet from Matthew 22:37-39, it’s obvious Jehovah wants us to love Him.
How do you reconcile the two?
Through study, and reasoning on those accounts (God was protecting His people)....and tying in the Resurrection hope for “the unrighteous.” — Acts of the Apostles 24:15.
Reasoning on Scripture like Isaac Newton and others did. (He read the same words of Scripture that you read...but he arrived at a different conclusion.)
(Why Jehovah God allows suffering....another reason why many are skeptical of God’s existence....is explained in Genesis 3.)
So long.
Actually, information *does* arise by chance.
So do products on an assembly line:
Only through processes
already established.