#Sundaysermon
If you are a christian who claims to believe in the god "of the bible", we need to talk. It would be grossly hypocritical of you to claim this and then choose to follow only the convenient portions of the bible, only the parts that can be wrapped in pretty, flowery wording. You don't get to dress up your god to make its appealing parts more attractive, in hopes of glossing over its ugly parts. Because, yeah, some of us have noted its ugly parts. And we have an issue with that.
If your god is responsible for -
Matthew 19:14
Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
Then it is also responsible for -
Deuteronomy 22:28, 29
28 If a man finds a girls who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizer her and lies with her and they are discovered,
29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.
If your god is responsible for "lovingly" sending its own self/son/portion of the trinity to die for all of mankind's shortcomings, then it is also responsible for causing one of its beloved followers to believe he needed to sacrifice his only, loved son. With all of the horror that coming to that decision would have caused a human being.
Save your breath and all of your arguments. I've heard them all before. The "human error" one is prevalent when this topic is brought up. That being, that it is taken into account that humans wrote the bible, it has been interpreted multiple times from its original languages, and that can account for some of the parts that we collectively find offensive/outdated now.
Nope.
You don't get to excuse your god's failings that simply.
Throughout this book that is its mouthpiece to its followers, we are told that, while humans were gifted free will, god is omnipotent. Are we then to believe that an all-powerful being allowed the then ignorant and simple-minded people to misrepresent it so appallingly in its own book? For example, slavery. Did god know slavery was wrong and just forget to relay that to his followers way back then? Did god know that slavery was wrong and just not care that it was practised? Did god not know that slavery was wrong and human empathy and morality has since surpassed that of its supposed creator? Does god still not know that slavery is wrong?
The options now are
1. that god isn't real and this book was written by ignorant peoples of ancient times to control other ignorant peoples
2. that god is real but it is not omnipotent and could not control how it was represented in its own book to its own people
3. that god is real, is omnipotent, and is also a summary of all of the ugly parts of the bible as well as the pretty ones (which means your god loves you a lot but is also okay with you having to marry your rapist)
The fact that these ugly parts of your god are in his divinely inspired instruction manual poses a moral dilemma for any who claim to follow the god of this bible. You must unquestioningly support the god/bible, in all of its flaws, or you hypocritically pick and choose what you believe and which you will support and follow.
