@GreatestIam2 Said 
God sins a lot but is there no end to God?s greed?
"Jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sado-masochistic, capriciously malevolent bully" - Richard Dawkins.
Dawkins has listed a few of the --qualities-- that he has gleaned from reading scriptures.
He seems to have forgotten God?s main sin though, that of greed and coveting.
God, in his greed, wants or more rightly said, demands, that we love, honor, and obey him and repent for sinning against him when in reality, man can only sins against man.
Any that dare not give all that he greedily covets is punished quite severely. This shows the depth of his greed. Scripture is surely on the mark when it says that he is a jealous God and God live up to this label quite well. Scripture also says that we are to try to be as perfect as God and that would mean having all the immoral attributes shown here.
Most, including the pope and other main line religions hierarchies believe in evolution. Evolution tells us that God, if he exists at all and that is not really a proven fact, would have lived may years before creating mankind. Most think that God is and always has been perfect and never changing.
In the beginning there would only have been God. No one or anything to be jealous of.
Nothing to covet, no one to control etc.
If Dawkins list has some accuracy in it and I am told by theists that it does, where did these attributes come from. They all seem so human that one would think that a God would be above such petty and immoral attributes.
One would think that a good God would only have good attributes but as we know, he cannot or will not follow his own commandments.
A human law maker is expected to follow the law and we see this as good morals yet theist follow a God who is acting less moral than men.
Strange.
How then did he suddenly become so jealous and greedy?
Even to the point of coveting another man?s woman, Mary.
Are there no commandments worthy of him following?
Are we to follow a law maker who does not follow his own laws?
Regards
DL
The only reason you view God as this, is because you do not agree that he is the creator of the world. So of course your going to think that he is greedy.
JUst for a second, you were the creator of the universe. You would have all the right to have everything. It belongs to you. You set the rules for human kind. Yet as creator, you are over everything. Even the law bc that is for human kind. Yet, As creator you are angry bc it is just anger that your ppl have turned away from you. You take away things that you have given bc you have a better plan. ect.
You have viewed the scriptures with your world-view, your subjectivness.
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