Michael it has only now become clear to me that you have created your own personal religion, a religion you masquerade as christianity.
It's somehow news to you that I'm a unique individual with unique personal beliefs, and you can't just shove your beliefs down my throat?
You appear to deny Jesus is god and god is Jesus (correct me if I'm wrong)
I certainly don't deny that Jesus and God are/were one via the presence of the the Holy Spirit. It's not a mutually *exclusive* relationship according to Jesus in John 17.
and deny Moses holy status.
If by 'holy status' you mean personally infallible, no. He was just another violent guy from my perspective.
You cherry pick the parts of the bible you like, and ignore/deny the parts you do not.
Who doesn't? You?
You claim Jesus is the messiah of Judaism,
Yep.
It would be more accurate to suggest that I accept the *possibility* of reincarnation. I've never had anything occur in my own life to support that idea, but I have seen evidence to support it.
and claim Moses committed mass murder.
Do you deny it?
You justify your denial by renaming "cherry picking" to "personal interpretation".
Again, who doesn't do both?
You justify your cognitive dissonance regarding your god's morality by blaming Moses,
I simply don't blame God for the sins of humans like you're trying to do, just because some human tells me "God told me to do it". What "cognitive dissonance"? Do you believe everything everyone tells you? Do *you* even believe that God personally ordered Moses to commit genocide? Yes or no?
blaming my interpretation of the bible,
You're blaming mine apparently. Is your interpretation any less subjective than mine?
and attacking my character.
Actually, no, you started that routine when you took the low road with the liar liar pants on fire routine, and your comments about cognitive dissonance, all of which were *personal attacks*! If you can't take it, stop dishing it out.
When I queried you about your god's malenovance, you responded with denial and a smoke screen.
I denied your statement was true and you have yet to demonstrate it is true. What evidence do you have to support assertion #3? I'm still waiting with baited breath by the way.
When I attempted to clear the smoke screen, you created another, when I attempted to clear that,
First of all you lumped *several* claims including my personal ownership of some mythical bible god into one mixed bag and you started making ridiculous claims about my beliefs about God and about the Bible itself. We can start unraveling the nonsense the moment you stop trying to assert my personal ownership of God. I own my own *beliefs* about God, but I don't own God.
you promptly lied by claiming it was me who insisted on discussing Moses.
I *assumed* that would be the basis of your unsupported claim. You've yet to make your case, so I have no idea if I was correct or incorrect in that *assumption*. I'll give you that much.
You also altered the context of my point by substituting words.
You altered the context by giving me personal ownership of a God I apparently do not believe in that you think has something to do with the 'Bible'. I'm still all ears anytime you'd like to make your case.
When I pointed out some of your apparently deceitful shenanigans you failed to acknowledge them.
Whatever "shenanigans" you believe were deceitful weren't any such thing. The *worst* you could accuse me of is *assuming* you were talking about events in the OT. Guilty as charged. I still haven't a clue then what you're even talking about if that wasn't what you were talking about in reference to the "Bible".
You were just manipulating semantics as part of your "smokescreen" distraction.
Boloney. You started the semantics and smoke screens the moment you gave me ownership of God, and the moment you claimed things about the Bible in relationship to my personal beliefs. You mixed your own claims as mine and then handed me ownership of them. I'm not pleased or amused.
You claim you are a follower of Jesus
I am.
but you were bearing false witness against me.
How could I possibly know that since you've yet to explain what evidence you intend to present to support *YOUR* (not my) claims about *my* God?
Making a claim that you never used the word "omnibenevolent" is not a defence .
Yes, admittedly it's a minor point, but yes it is. I never used that term in the first place, yet you asserted it as some sort of attribute and then tried to associate it with *MY* God. You're right in the sense that you can speak use any term, but it might help if you *asked questions* before making assumptions about my beliefs. You haven't so far.
I could have easily substituted "omnibenevolent" for "all good", that would not have affected my point or altered the context whatsoever.
When you've been around the OMNI-block a few times you get tired of atheists even using such terms to start with. Count me out of the OMNI claims.
Michael I never said you personally claim to own your god, this irrelevant claim appears to be a distraction.
You are spending an *inordinate* amount of time talking about *my* God, and how bad he is as demonstrated in the Bible, yet you have *never provided a shred of empirical evidence* to support it. When can I expect you to do so?
I'm agnostic towards the majority of gods, so in that respect your atheism is much stronger than mine (id est. You reject exceedingly more gods than I do),
There you go again making more assumptions about my beliefs about religions, and confusing religions with "gods". Ok, since you seem to be clairvoyant, which 'gods' do I personally reject?
so I simply refer to your god as "your" god.
It's not *my God*. You're talking about *my beliefs*, not *my God*. If we were discussing cosmology theory, we would be discussing *my beliefs* about the universe, not *my universe* or *your universe*. It's pure nonsense to use the term 'my god' when you're *actually* discussing *my beliefs*! That's at *least* half the problem.
I'm not inferring ownership,
Yes you did. You said "your God". You specifically and intentionally used that term. I lack belief in the whole concept of "my God". That an *atheists* belief, not mine.
I'm just making the clear distinction between "your" god and all the other gods,
You're blatantly ignoring the whole concept of monotheism. There aren't any other "gods", just other 'religions'!
many of which I concur are "all good" as depicted. I do not utilise faith for anything,
Really? Nothing at all? You don't even have *faith* in your own subjective opinions (like gods plural)?
faith and belief is not a necessary component for my perspective of life.
I have no idea how you use a computer without beliefs, but beliefs and faith are an integral part of life IMO.
Faith and belief more often than not lead me astray as it did "believing" you were mainstream christian.
I never professed to be a "mainstream' Christian, in fact if you follow my link, I specifically identify myself as a *Universalist Christian*. I don't even reject other religions wholesale the way you do, and Christianity has *many* sects, not just one.
You're right though, you will have to treat me as a unique individual, just like everyone else. I'm not obligated to meet your personal criteria of a "Christian" anymore than you're obligated to meet my personal criteria of agnosticism.