tapero I never said I understood god, or if he even exist. I have said repeatedly that it is an unknowable. I said he will be fair and just unlike the christian idea because due to research, i have read a lot of the bible in the last few weeks of religion class I have found it to be very much the opposite of what I would find fair and just. I mean you can't just pick the nice parts and forget about all the battles where god told the Israelites to rape and kill the survivors of the opposing side. Also the doctrine of love me or burn forever because a glaring flaw in justice and fairness.
Okay, that's another thing non christians are told, and there is no place in the bible where God said to rape anyone, nor will you ever find such scripture as doesn't exist, and is often brought up, see cause things are commonly taught and what we hear many times we believe, without knowing.
I won't tell you only good things; to me anything God does is right just and fair. I don't understand it all, don't know why some things occured, but I do know God is just good right fair and Holy. He does no evil.
It doesn't matter about the battles in the Old Testament. If God ordered a whole nation wiped, man, woman, child, and animal, I don't know why, but I do know God is good, and I know there is purpose, for God does not do things without purpose. So we don't know the mind of God, except what is revealed, and He doesn't tell us many of the why's, but I can tell you, whatever God has done has been for our good, meaning mankind.
We can't see that now, I can in part, but I mean we can't fathom about the flood and all mankind and animals wiped from the earth; however, I know, or have a fairly good idea, he was preserving man, as man had grown so wicked; if he hadn't reserved his wrath and even wiped out Noah then there would be none, but to preserve mankind, saved Noah and the family, and so I know you can't get all this, but it comes by learning from the bible, and not by being told lies that aren't in the bible such as God ordered rape, which you will never see any scripture stating such; is just a common teaching by non christians.
So, while I'm glad you're reading the bible, well, let me put it this way. You have parents and you grew up with them, and the older you got the more you learned about them, more in depth, same is with God and with the bible, it's not a few week deal, it's a relationship that is learning about God and the truths in the bible. Whether good things or bad things in the bible, it's learning truths. Not from outside sources who are saying lies that God said to rape women, again never stated, nor would he ever order such.
Why he had nations destroyed down to even babies and animals, (at least one instance) I've no clue, but I do know He is good and righteous, and has wrath, and what he does, I know you can't accept this, all that He has done that we read in the bible was for us 'the body of Christ' and for those not yet saved, or will not be saved, he did it as if his full wrath were vent, which will occur in end times, few would be on this earth now.
Now is the time of grace, for men to come to Christ, that is the period we are in. Like I said, dont know why I heard, but I did. Was 33 when I came to Christ.
As to hell, it's true, God says people will go to hell. I didn't say such, God does.
Again, we are the created, we do not know better than God now can we, nor can we ever be better than God, we never will be.
We are in a spiritual battle God says, hence demons and angels are warring in unseem realms. God says this is the battle. We have very little insight into that, some is given in the bible, but not a lot.
But what's occuring is those keeping men from the truth, which is Christ, and angels fighting for men, for you, for me for us all.
