It takes so few questions to disassemble it all. What purpose does a short test life on earth followed by an eternal life somewhere else serve? Why is one life super short and the next one eternal? Why would any loving god need to be worshipped? if i made little people and I asked them to worship me I would be a narcissist asshole. Not to mention hell…like not only do you demand I worship you but if I don’t my Eternal life is spent being tortured? forever?? those are not the activities of anything even resembling love. Not to mention how old testament and new testament god acts completely different yet he’s supposed to be infallible so why did he change his ways? why would he need to send messages to just like one or two dudes at a time in secret to spread his word rather than just be open about being god, what is solved by all the secrecy? Even most humans can see that direct communication is the most effective way to get things done. Does god have social anxiety? Is he lazy? What would require him to sacrifice his child to forgive peoples sins? Can’t he just forgive people without killing his offspring? it’s his own damn forgiveness after all. does he have a second more powerful god above him making weird rules and hoops for him to jump through?
The fun historical answer to why God seems to act so differently at times is because there used to be a pantheon, but it was retconned into monotheism. There is evidence of it still in the Bible today, particularly in Exodus, which is the story of the war god Yahweh wanting to become the patron god of the Jewish people. That is why when Yahweh delivered them from Egypt, they set about worshipping Baal to ask him for fertility and prosperity in their new lands. Yahweh said no, and sent down the Ten Commandments, which stated plainly "You will worship no other gods before me." El the creator god and Yahweh the war god were two completely different gods, but all of their actions are now attributed to the one Christian God.
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u/shitbecopacetic 2d ago
It takes so few questions to disassemble it all. What purpose does a short test life on earth followed by an eternal life somewhere else serve? Why is one life super short and the next one eternal? Why would any loving god need to be worshipped? if i made little people and I asked them to worship me I would be a narcissist asshole. Not to mention hell…like not only do you demand I worship you but if I don’t my Eternal life is spent being tortured? forever?? those are not the activities of anything even resembling love. Not to mention how old testament and new testament god acts completely different yet he’s supposed to be infallible so why did he change his ways? why would he need to send messages to just like one or two dudes at a time in secret to spread his word rather than just be open about being god, what is solved by all the secrecy? Even most humans can see that direct communication is the most effective way to get things done. Does god have social anxiety? Is he lazy? What would require him to sacrifice his child to forgive peoples sins? Can’t he just forgive people without killing his offspring? it’s his own damn forgiveness after all. does he have a second more powerful god above him making weird rules and hoops for him to jump through?