Ok, let’s try this again.
1)Have you ever read scripture, beginning with the creation of man?
Yes. 4 different versions. Awfully presumptuous of you to think I hadn’t.
**I presumed nothing. I asked if you had because the content of your words did not reveal any or much knowledge of scripture. One would think that if one had read 4 different versions and actually learned something, one would not be shaking verbal fists at God and besmirching His character.
2)Tell me, why the apparent bitterness towards your creator?
I have no problems with JHVH. It’s his adherents that give me headaches...
**Now your current words run counter to your past words. After calling into question the character of God, His goodness and His power, you say that your only real problem is with those that follow Him. Your earlier words give lie to that statement.
To whit:
a)**You said**So, JHVH is having a galactic sized belly laugh over our struggle...
That’s always bothered me.
**So, you are bothered by your view of Gods character, which you proclaim to be less than good.**
b)**You said**JHVH made the pain and suffering.
If you are saying that because he gave us a Will He cannot control, we suffer... Then you are either admitting that He’s less than Omnipotent, or has a sadistic streak...
**Now, the Lord is a sadistic pain maker. Really?**
c)**You said**God either made everything, or he didn’t.
This includes all the Evil in the world.
**Now JHVH is a maker of evil. You avoided my invitation to show me scripture, ANY scripture which shows God to be the author of evil. Any one verse would do.**
d)**You said**So, God made me to be as flawed as he is...
**I’ll merely say what scripture says. God created man in His image. Then, we decided we wanted to be something else, something even better, we wanted to be Just Like God. And we ate of that fruit. and now you want to point the finger of blame at God. Good luck with that.**
Reading some of your other posts in this thread, I would remind you that JHVH, the Lord that you are writing of is Holy. Not to mention Righteous. And even Good. No where in His word, which is ALL truth, does it even begin to perhaps put forth even a small beginning of an inkling that maybe, perchance, on a bad day, maybe when He was grumpy, that he decided to inject just a little icky sin just to have a bit of a belly laugh.
Your position is wrong, because it is not scriptural. Nor is it supported by scripture.
In fact, if we want to continue with things scriptural, I would say that what you are saying would only serve to cause confusion in the body of Christ. And, if you have read as much as you say, I think you know where confusion is authored.
Good day FRiend.
Verbal fists and besmirching?
Really?
Is Jehovah Omnipotent and Omniscient? Yes? Or No?
If yes, then he KNEW what He was doing when he created everything, including the capacity for and concept of evil.
If no, then He’s not a very good deity is he...
The rest of your disjointed post leads me to believe the latter answer from you. Your God’s a mighty God, but he is neither Omniscient nor infallible. He’s fluffy, and cuddly, and would never hurt a fly... He’d never create something icky like sin, we did that ourselves... Even though he created us... To be like him... But we’re not... ‘Cause of the sin thing...
Does that sum up your position pretty accurately?