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Which means what? That He's got another Word? Come on, I challenge you to realise that the real point here is to disprove God. Just as 'cruelties' is not to prove that God's cruel. Why, for the love of ... would one want to do that? No, the disguised intention is to disprove God by showing that He cannot be as that would mean a cruel superbeing.

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I cannot disprove God any more than you can prove Him. I would have thought that was abundantly clear by now.

It is the Bible I attack, not God. To you, they may be one and the same. You may choose to view the universe in such strictly limited terms (either the Bible is true, or God doesn't exist) but I do not. There are many other possibilities to consider if the Bible is non-divine:

- Perhaps the Qu'ran is true. I don't believe that any more than you do, but it is an alternative.

- Perhaps parts of the Bible are indeed divinely inspired and represent the true Word of God, but other parts are the work of uninspired human beings - in which case it behooves us to determine which is which.

- Perhaps there are errors in the Bible that have crept in over time, as people have edited and translated it, and those errors are interfering with God's message. That being the case, we should do everything we can to correct them (for instance - suppose the original Bible really DID say something other than "mustard seed", but the editors changed it because they'd never heard of the seed that Christ actually talked about?).

- Perhaps God never intended for us to write a Bible, preferring to give us His message directly. If this is the case, then God may be waiting for us to put down the Bible and listen so that He can give us the real message.

- Perhaps God communicates with us in ways we do not yet comprehend, and the Bible represents a heavily garbled version of His true message.

- Perhaps God does not communicate with us at all, and the Bible is a total fabrication, but God actually DOES exist.

- Perhaps God is the Universe itself, and each one of us is a small part of how He expresses Himself.


Granted, I don't happen to think God exists at all - but even so, I was able to come up with a list of many intriguing possibilities beyond the two that your imagination produced.

You want to tell me God exists? Fine! I have no practical argument against that, and neither does anyone. But as soon as you start telling me that you know anything about Him, that's where I start questioning your sources of information - as any responsible and intelligent person should.

I'm sure you'd love to try to make this argument about the existence of God, because you know that no one can win such an argument. But that's just not so, at least not for many of us (granted, there are some here who are deluded enough to actually try and disprove God Himself). I submit that it is entirely possible to believe in God and to love God, and despise the manner in which the Bible describes Him. To believe in God and NOT the Bible is not a contradiction in terms.

I'll say this again: if you believe the Bible and God to be one and the same, then you are worshiping a book. There's a law in there against that sort of thing, I'm pretty sure - something about idolatry.