The Evil, Deceitful God of the Bible Part 2

George_Costanza · August 10, 2012, 6:44pm

The Evil, Deceitful God of the Bible. Part 2.
by “George Costanza”

After casting Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden for the terrible sin of exercising free will and refusing to remain in ignorance, God was upset with the civilization that followed. He felt that every single thought of every single human was always focused on “wickedness and evil”. By which of course He probably meant wisdom and knowledge, since we already know how He feels about that sort of thing. To remedy this he decided to murder every person on the planet except for Noah and his family. The victims were also to include the rest of the living creatures, who were incapable of thoughts that can be classified as good or evil.

So, with the earth flooded and all life dead, the waters subside and Noah is left to build a new civilization, with a promise from God that he will never again “curse the ground because of humans”, which again, was a lie, more on that in a bit. He also said that “the human heart is evil”. God has nothing good to say about the humans He created, and after all, if He created them, and they are evil, then He created evil. That’s pretty basic logic.

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The new civilization built by the descendants of Noah (Noah, by the way, condoned the enslavement of one of his sons by the others (see Genesis 9)) was strong and united. They found a suitable piece of land and they built on it. The whole world was united, they were able to communicate clearly, and so they began construction of a wonderful tower. Their reasoning was that if they built something of this magnitude it would hold them together as a community. God saw these positive things as negatives. He saw the city and the tower, and, speaking to someone He considered His equal, said, “Look at these guys, they are united, they all speak the same language, and they’ve built this amazing tower, and this is only the beginning. Come on, we must go down and destroy it and screw up their language so they can’t communicate”. That’s a clear plan of war, destruction of the enemies communications is Warfare 101. So He did, and broke up a bustling civilization, out of fear of what they might be able to accomplish.

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Genesis 11:1-9

1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” 5 The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built. 6 And the Lord said, “Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

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Much later now God told Abram to leave his home and go to a place to build a great nation. So Abram took a few people with him and God guided them to Canaan, where the Canaanites lived. God told Abram, “Hey look, don’t worry about the people who live here already, I’m going to give this land to you later on”. The Canannites were safe, for now.

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Genesis 12:1-7

1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

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After some time had passed, God decided that the Canaanites’ land wasn’t enough, so He told Abram, “Good news, I’m going to take the land from many peoples and give it you, because, well, because I can.” It seems that God condones theft of property, and/or occupation of another nation.

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After this, although God promised never to curse the land again because of the evil of humans, He decided to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gommorah, and all of the inhabitants because of their “depravity”, though there is no real detail about exactly what the problem was. God sent two angels to Sodom to check it out and they were taken in by a man named Lot. The people of city, angry at being judged by two strangers, demanded Lot bring the angels out of the house so the people could see them. Lot said, “Look guys, leave these two alone, I’ll give you my virgin daughters instead, do with them what you will”. Nice guy. In any case, the man willing to give his young daughters to an angry mob, was the only one who escaped along with his daughters and his wife. His wife, for the terrible sin of turning around to look at her home one last time as they fled, was turned to salt.

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Genesis 19:1-29

1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 He said, “Please, my lords, turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you can rise early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the square.” 3 But he urged them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house; 5 and they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them.” 6 Lot went out of the door to the men, shut the door after him, 7 and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. 8 Look, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.” 9 But they replied, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came here as an alien, and he would play the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near the door to break it down. 10 But the men inside reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. 11 And they struck with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they were unable to find the door. 12 Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city—bring them out of the place. 13 For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.” 14 So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up, get out of this place; for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting. 15 When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be consumed in the punishment of the city.” 16 But he lingered; so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and left him outside the city. 17 When they had brought them outside, they said, “Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed.” 18 And Lot said to them, “Oh, no, my lords; 19 your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life; but I cannot flee to the hills, for fear the disaster will overtake me and I die. 20 Look, that city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!” 21 He said to him, “Very well, I grant you this favor too, and will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 22 Hurry, escape there, for I can do nothing until you arrive there.” Therefore the city was called Zoar. 23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven; 25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26 But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. 27 Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord; 28 and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the Plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace. 29 So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had settled.

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It seems that God is a jerk and a thief. Part 3 to follow.

statiktech · August 10, 2012, 8:48pm

Pretty sure they wanted to rape the angels.

“Guys, guys, c’mon, let’s be reasonable here…rape my daughters instead.”

George_Costanza · August 10, 2012, 9:10pm

Ahahaha, didn’t catch that.

James_S_Saint · August 10, 2012, 9:23pm

They were not “cast out” for exercising “free-will”.

No. He knew that Adham and Eve had started the spread of a mental disease that pervaded the species, by consuming the fruit of a very specific knowledge - the seed of the disease… much like a consumed anti-virus that alters the DNA for all generations to come.

By which He meant a specific knowledge concerning “Good and Evil”.

He “decided” merely to let the disease run its course. Noah, seeing the course of the disease, built a “ship” to protect those who could still be saved.

George_Costanza · August 11, 2012, 1:39am

That’s a whole lotta speculation there my friend.

captaincrunk · August 11, 2012, 1:51am

Don’t you get it? The Matrix is real.

James_S_Saint · August 11, 2012, 7:43am

Only those who don’t know have to speculate.
I merely give them a shot at speculating in the right direction by mentioning it.

George_Costanza · August 11, 2012, 12:07pm

Oh well in that case, thank you for the guidance.

V-OutOfTheWilderness · August 11, 2012, 8:27pm

If God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because they were evil then why not destroy Lot too? He was evil enough to offer his daughters to be raped in every port, and later he himself had sex with them, producing incestuous offspring. If that’s not evil to God then he has double standards.

George_Costanza · August 12, 2012, 3:26am

God destroyed the city for a variety of vague reasons, few of which anyone but strict Christians would consider evil enough to warrant death. Yet Lot, apparently the only righteous man in the city, is saved. This is because the God in the story is evil, and so considers a city full of regular people who don’t care for him to be bad, and a man who is willing to let his daughters be raped to protect Gods angels is considered by this God to be good. So, Lot was evil, but saved by God, because God is evil. The city, just a regular city, maybe a bit licentious, is NOT evil. But an evil God will consider non Evil things to be evil. Bizarro world, opposite day, etc.

felix_dakat · August 12, 2012, 4:22am

The evils you have cited are minuscule when compared to the vast suffering of the myriad generations of living things the process of evolution has required.

Does the Bible extole Lot’s actions as a great and laudable deeds to be emulated by future generations?

George_Costanza · August 12, 2012, 6:06am

That’s true, but unrelated to the topic.

It doesn’t, but he was the only one God saved, so God must have thought Lot was a person worth saving while the others weren’t.

felix_dakat · August 12, 2012, 6:16pm

George=

That is factually incorrect. God saved Lot’s daughters. Maybe they were the only ones worth saving. How do you know?

George_Costanza · August 13, 2012, 12:10am

I don’t know. You may be correct. That’s something to think about.

V-OutOfTheWilderness · August 13, 2012, 8:46am

2Pe 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
2Pe 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
2Pe 2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

George_Costanza · August 13, 2012, 12:00pm

According to that, God considered Lot a righteous man. That supports my argument.

V-OutOfTheWilderness · August 13, 2012, 2:48pm

It’s pretty crazy … The God of the Bible sure can be wacky …

Typist · August 13, 2012, 2:59pm

You’re living in a little village on the coast of Florida in 1000 BC. All of a sudden, with no warning at all, a Category 5 hurricane sweeps in from the sea, and levels everything for 10 miles in all directions. Most of the people in your village, especially the innocent children, are swept out to sea.

For no reason! It’s crazy! It’s wacky! It’s contradictory, unfair, and makes so sense at all, because we’ve done nothing wrong!

V-OutOfTheWilderness · August 13, 2012, 3:22pm

But we make matters worse when we personify this into “God does it.” The Bible takes it further than you speak. It says God sends such things because we are evil … like the flood.

George_Costanza · August 13, 2012, 6:49pm

As far as we know, Nature does not act with intention. A tsunami is not intending to punish its victims for some perceived wrong behavior. God, on the other hand, is, and we know this because His book tells us this. The Bible is quite clear about that. That’s the difference.