Do people really take the Bible literally and believe everything it says? Do they really think this perfect God created us? How could any god that is so perfect and great want humans as a companion? And if he does, why would he punish us so? It can't be real. I really don't believe that God would have created us to put us on such an evil planet. Yeah, I know that he gave us a choice and told Adam not to eat the apple, but if he truly wanted to give Adam the choice... why didn't God explain to him the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit? He didn't so, of course, Adam was curious. I don't believe that curiosity is a sin. Maybe I am wrong. So we are damned because God didn't tell the whole story?
Aside from all that, what about hell? So we spend our lives squandering in evil on Earth so that, on judgement day we can be sent to hell to be with the Devil? Yeah right, this God that the Bible talks about is supposed to be working against the devil from the beginning of time. So in the end he gives our souls to him?... I don't buy it. Why would he work so hard to keep us in his domain, only to give us up in the end? It just doesn't make sense.
This God supposedly loves us and in the Bible it says 1 Corinthians 13 "...Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres..." but if that isn't contradictory, then I don't know what is. If I recall correctly God is a jealous god and expects no other god to be worshiped. If God is not self-seeking, what is he? It is not easily angered?? Have I not read many stories where God decides that the only way to fix a society is to destroy it. If our God loves us so much that he is not keeping record of our wrongs, why is it that we are still paying for Adam's mistake?
Don't get me wrong... I think that most religions are just as silly. It just frustrates me that so many people in the Western world think the same way. I don't like the circular logic of "God wrote the Bible so it must be true, and the Bible says that God exists so he must be real". Maybe I am just too dumb to be faithful... but it just feels wrong. There are certain aspects of religion that I like and somewhat believe in, but I have yet to find a religion that makes complete sense to me.
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