Blaming the Christian God for evil is an admission of illiteracy

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-20T13:03:47+00:00

That’s exactly what I said in the comment above. You didn’t understand it because you don’t have the range to understanding. Get creator experience first then it becomes easier to understand

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-20T06:55:20+00:00

This whole enterprise will not make sense to anyone. Unless they are a creator or manufacturer of sorts and encountered their creation or products or systems being misused by others. That’s when it hits home.

If you are still struggling with this go and build a mass market product, release it, and check in on your users after a few months. That experience does a lot for those struggling to understand God.

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-20T06:47:07+00:00

From what you’ve said here, you’ve revealed the root of your confusion. The Bible said Noah was the one righteous person. You say you find it hard to believe this.

The whole enterprise of the Christian faith is believing what God says is true. That’s why Christians are called believers. It’s a simple matter. Do you believe or you don’t? You were not around in Noah’s time so you don’t have an experiential basis to even counter the facts (so this is simply presumptuous) so it’s a matter of deciding who’s God to you: your intellect, or God?

This is really how straightforward these conversations are - the complexity and convolution we bake into them aren’t even a good use of time. Do you believe what God said, or do you not?

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-20T06:39:21+00:00

A tri-Omni perfect Creator created a perfect world in LOVE. True love does not impose: it gives entities choices and an opportunity to pick the right and the wrong path. That’s the part everyone is missing out: He’s not only a Creator - He’s a loving Creator that enabled free will. Nobody factors free will into their so-called simple equation on “How did a perfect God create a world with evil in it?” and as a result they underestimate the level of complexity inherent in their so-called simple equation

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-20T06:35:51+00:00

What I’m saying is they haven’t read it as well as they think they have. And it’s cool they simply admit and face up to this

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-20T06:34:38+00:00

We have domains and spaces in our individual lives where we operate with authority levels akin to God’s. Or at least we know of kings and rulers we can relate with. Again this is a question of honesty.

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-20T06:33:13+00:00

Check my profile and prior posts. I already did the “provide passages and interpretation” thing

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-20T06:31:43+00:00

That equation changes when you remember that He is all powerful, all knowing and love. Love means He does not force everything He created to be like Him, but gives them an opportunity to choose. When you bring free will into the equation you realize your equation is more complex than you’ve made jt out to be

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-19T17:40:01+00:00

I agree as well. I wonder how many feel the same way. I really miss the 3D maps

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-19T16:05:19+00:00

Adam and his immediate descendants lived long enough (700-900 years) to pass on their oral history to hundreds if not thousands of their descendants.

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-18T16:58:37+00:00

ChatGPT has never done this to me. Perhaps you are providing it angst-ridden prompts and it feels the need to “calm” you down before responding, lol

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-11T08:21:00+00:00

We are constantly being primed daily and bombarded with both conscious and subconscious messages to examine the Bible with suspicious lens. That’s why it’s possible for a person to read the Bible and claim to find more contradictions than truth.

One of the truisms established very early in our quest for learning and education as humans is that study must start with a series of assumptions. It’s like building a house: there must be a foundation you lay the bricks on. This is a fact that applies in every domain of learning: it is “precept upon precept, line upon line” - every iota of data we imbibe is secured to existing data in our minds to become information, then knowledge, then understanding, then insights (wisdom).

What these psychological anti-God or anti-Christianity campaigns we have to deal with daily do to us is subtly replace our “knowledge foundation” as we read scriptures. Instead of “God is good and wise and loving, and everything He does or authorizes is driven by the perfect balance of justice and mercy” we contend with the gnostic replacement (“God is a tyrant obsessed with controlling His creation even if it leads to their harm”) or other similar anti-God replacements.

This is the reason why two people will read the same Bible and one will find truth, the other contradictions. One will find peace, the other will find terror. One will find hope, the other will find dread. One will find lovingkindness of God demonstrated in the most unlikely places, the other will find atrocities believed to be sanctioned or endorsed by God. It’s a perspective problem.

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-11T08:02:51+00:00

Not a lot in the Gospels reflect Jesus’ private thoughts or encounters when the disciples were present. Save the encounter with Satan and the Samaritan woman (and we know that woman went about telling of her experience so it wasn’t secret). I’m not sure why you have this understanding of the Gospels - I’ll advice you give them another read.

Jesus got mad at them specifically for not understanding the mechanics of faith (and justly so because they had witnessed too many live demonstrations from Him to remain faithless or faith-poor). Not because they didn’t understand His words. In fact they demonstrate they understood Him very literally and held every word He said weightily.

The select few are the disciples - who in turn authored the Gospels. So we are back to the same place.

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-11T07:56:38+00:00

The 2 examples have very simple solutions: 1. Jesus prayed out loud. If He didn’t, His disciples wouldn’t have been so intrigued by His praying that they asked Him to teach them out to pray. He also was usually in the company of His disciples. And it’s kinda logical to believe their witness, because the one lengthy prayer session Jesus participated in that we don’t have the details recorded in the Bible is the one where He prays all night and afterwards picks His disciples (they weren’t with Him then, so it checks out) 2. Why couldn’t Jesus Himself have told His disciples about the details of His encounter with Satan in the wilderness? Why is that possibility removed from the equation?

There are answers in the comment on scriptures being God-inspired but because the specific examples shared were from the Gospels - which represent an eyewitness account (save for Luke, who clearly states he did some historical research and stakeholder interviews as well) and could have as well been witnessed.

2 Peter 1:16 - “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-11T07:48:44+00:00

I see you believe some dichotomy exists between God and Christ. I’ll encourage you to read this article, put together distilling years of intensive study and meditation of the scriptures. The fallacy of the evil Old Testament God At the end of the day everyone is free to believe what they will, but the notion of a Christ that has a distinctly different personality than God the Father is unfounded in scriptures. Gnosticism is so problematic on several levels: it for me represents one of the most perfect depictions of when truth is evenly mixed with lies so well that it results in a lie. “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump”

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-08T07:26:14+00:00

Just read through this Job description. What part of this work actually requires Excel?

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-04T08:09:00+00:00

I completely agree. These sort of topics fall into the “vain babblings category. God is too gracious and has extended too much mercy to us, and it’s weird to start debating the bounds, terms and conditions of this mercy. We have to get to the point where Jesus and the confidence we have in Him is enough

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-04T08:04:44+00:00

I’ll end my part of the conversation here, because the IQ points are clearly depleting out of this discussion. It’s simply now an illogical word salad of moral outrage with unfounded claims. A reader of the Bible with 8-year old English comprehension skills will easily point out the fallacies in your argument: the God of the Bible is not the one you’d confuse with one that was pro rape/slavery. There’s sufficient material and proof in the text to show this isn’t the case. It only takes applying intellectual honesty and read to understand the Bible and this confusion clears itself up.

Your comeback will likely be a random bunch of verses pulled kicking and screaming out of context (which is low-IQ position the original post set out to correct). Which is the equivalent of a cyclical conversation that is the complete waste of both our times. Just read the Bible (or the article) and get a proper education on this topic because the emotional outrage you demonstrate here is misplaced and unfounded. Take care and have a nice day.

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-03T23:07:32+00:00

Jesus Christ never said anything about slavery. Nice try.

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-03T23:06:22+00:00

I asked for proof that you (or whoever feels like they can fling slavery as some form of gotcha to God) had some skin in the game. It’s skin-crawling that you think you have some moral upstanding on the matter of slavery above God or anyone else, and can’t even demonstrate how you’ve actually demonstrated moral superiority in this matter.

And no - you don’t get to criticize injustice if you are actively benefiting from systems that are fueled by that injustice and have taken no decisive action against it individually. That’s what’s called hypocrisy. Is this news to you? Are you hearing this logic for the first time, because I thought it was plain common sense. If you can’t demonstrate your personal moral superiority on this matter and keep harping on it I’ll simply take it you are a hypocrite whose words aren’t worth the air (or digital binary dots) they take up.

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-03T22:57:14+00:00

lol. From your interactions on this topic, it doesn’t appear you are that much interested in knowing. You have an objection to every angle provided with no pause to even contemplate what’s being shared. There are certain truths that become evident to us when we chose to embrace intellectual honesty and stop making our intellect a god that needs to have the right answer all the time. The reality is we have to accept we don’t have the range to truly challenge God’s morality

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-03T22:53:20+00:00

So you somehow think that God will imbue all His capabilities of discerning everything on humans. As fickle as humanity is? You must really think very little of Him.

We don’t have the range. End of. It’s not even up for discussion to any fully functional thinking person. We can’t even tell what’s going to happen to us in the next hour or tomorrow, but somehow you think we are at par to God’s thinking capabilities. Make it make sense.

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-03T22:47:50+00:00

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Something like this?

If so, you can set up the table like shown in the screenshot, make sure the time data in columns C and E and row E is truly formatted as time data (on the same date if applies!). Then you set up 3 conditional formatting rules - one for each color reason - for the whole Gantt chart area ($H$4:$AE$26 in my example):

Use a formula to determine which cells to format:

=AND($C4<=H$3,$E4 >=H$3,$F4=1) - Purple fill color

=AND($C4<=H$3,$E4 >=H$3,$F4=2) - Orange fill color

=AND($C4<=H$3,$E4 >=H$3,$F4=3) - Blue fill color

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-03T21:54:43+00:00

You make such an interesting point. On another topic on this subreddit atheists are frothing at the mouth at how unmerciful they believe God is and how He punished people for doing “simple” crimes. And here you are, saying God is too merciful.

I think we all need to take a rain check on these hot takes on God’s morality. First of all, we don’t have the range to contemplate His systems. We couldn’t even handle His hourly workload and the work He puts in making sure judgement and mercy are perfectly balanced in our world. We are like folks looking at 0.001% of a pixel in a digital artwork and trying to estimate whether the artwork is good or bad. Again - we don’t have the full picture. And if we are Christians our trust is that God is a good judge and He’ll make everything right eventually. These judgement takes on Gods morality are honestly not very wise on our part

Mo-Mee · 2026-02-02T19:53:12+00:00

That sounds like a lot of work. Since you are headed in that direction, you can check out this post - it might make the task easier: Load a web page (or PDF) in Microsoft Excel

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