What does that say about you?
Begging the question.
Why would any human accept any ruler or mentor that didn't meet an accepted standard? Rulers, kings, queens throughout history have been toppled or killed because they behaved appallingly.
Rulers, kings, queens throughout history have been toppled or killed because they behaved well, too.
So what?
So yes of course we should and MUST hold any would be ruling entity to some level of behaviour and standard otherwise we will beget a total uncaring tyrant.
Indeed.
Of course, if that standard is not objective, then anyone could frame any ruler they don't like as a "total uncaring tyrant," when they might not be.
Like you, here, have done to God.
On a personal basis I only reject the defacto concept of an all-loving all-powerful all-knowing entity as peddled by the Church.
Try the God of the Bible, instead.
Reality around us every day demonstrates admirably that no such entity exists.
Reality around us every day demonstates admirably that God exists.
The life answers therefore must lie elsewhere.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Because I see the truer meaning in the alchemical allegory.
The Bible is not a book about alchemy.
There's simply no point that Jesus actually wanted anyone to literally eat his flesh and drink his blood and thus equally there's no allegory that alludes to that.
You're just in denial.
I already gave you the reason He said to eat His flesh and to drink His blood, when He spoke about eating bread and drinking wine.
Just because you reject that reason doesn't mean there isn't a reason.
The allegories are alluding to the consumation of the White and Red Stones and that's supported by the numerous other references the Stone in the Bible such as I have already given.
Yeah, no.
It doesn't mean what you said is right either.
See how that works?!
Indeed, which is why I made the argument for what I said, instead of just saying it. Try addressing the argument I made.
And again, saying it doesn't make it so doesn't make it not so.
Supra.
That's the Bible's premise not mine, at least the all-powerful part.
Yeah, no.
Genesis 18:14 - Is anything too difficult for the Lord?
Capability, not power.
Job 42:1-2 - Then Job answered the Lord and said, “I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.
Capability, not power.
Luke 1:37 - For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Capability, not power.
Jeremiah 32:27 - “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me?”
Capability, not power.
Hebrews 1:3 - He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
More powerful than anything in the universe, but not "all powerful" (omnipotent).
Psalm 147:5 - Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.
"Beyond measure" does not mean "omnipotent."
None of those verses state that God is "all-powerful."
However if you are claiming that your God is NOT all-powerful then on what basis should any human worship him rather than any other God which may or may not be even more powerful?
Because He literally died for you.
"Greater love has no man than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends."
If giving up one's life for you is not worthy of your respect, then nothing is, and it's no wonder you reject Him.
He wants to call you "friend." But you keep slapping His hand away.
Eventually, it will be too late. Repent now, while you still can.
But according to the Bible God does already know all hearts and minds
1 Kings 8:39 - then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men,
Look at the context.
This is a prayer by Solomon.
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven; and he said: “Lord God of Israel, there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts. You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day. Therefore, Lord God of Israel, now keep what You promised Your servant David my father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take heed to their way, that they walk before Me as you have walked before Me.’ And now I pray, O God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your servant David my father. “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built! Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O Lord my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today: that Your eyes may be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place. And may You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in heaven Your dwelling place; and when You hear, forgive. “When anyone sins against his neighbor, and is forced to take an oath, and comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this temple, then hear in heaven, and act, and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked, bringing his way on his head, and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness. “When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and when they turn back to You and confess Your name, and pray and make supplication to You in this temple, then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers. “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them, then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance. “When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple: then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men), that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers. “Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for Your name’s sake (for they will hear of Your great name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this temple, hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name. “When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the Lord toward the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name, then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. “When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near; yet when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness’; and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name: then hear in heaven Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You; and grant them compassion before those who took them captive, that they may have compassion on them (for they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the iron furnace), that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You. For You separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be Your inheritance, as You spoke by Your servant Moses, when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.”
Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication - Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven; and he said: “Lord God of Israel, there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy...
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It's not an absolute statement.
It's an observation of what has already occurred.
Psalm 44:21 - Would not God find this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
The verse literally says "would not God
find this out?"
What is there for God to "find out" if He already knows everything?
Acts 15:8 - And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us
Note that this is in the context of Paul witnessing to the Gentiles, the immediate context being the Jerusalem Council.
Do you think God would be involved to some extent when His gospel is being preached among the Gentiles?
What purpose do you suggest is being served by God allowing helpless children to be sexually molested by wicked men? What value and meaning is there is such an attrocity?
Who said there was some purpose or value or meaning when such happens?
Not us.
Your contention is with Calvinism, not Christianity.
Yep it's an appalling story. What kind of twisted individual/entity would ask a parent to go kill their own child? It's sick.
Only when you ignore the fact that God is the Creator, and thus has the right to demand such actions.
You didn't answer my question, though.
What did God say after He stopped Abraham?
Saying it doesn't make it so.
Right back at'cha!
The stories are at least in part allegorical not literal.
No one said there is no allegory in the stories of the Bible.
But simply rejecting them as having happened in the first place is too far in the other direction. There is no reason to do so.
Do you really believe in talking snakes?
A talking serpent in the Garden of Eden?
Yes. Because the serpent was Lucifer, the angel of light.
And a donkey given the ability to speak by God in order to rebuke his master, later.
How about the flying spaghetti monster?
You mean the made-up creature created by atheists to mock God?
No, of course not.
Right and wrong can not apply to a form of energy.
God is not "a form of energy."
The universe doesn't care one jot about your concept of right or wrong.
Right and wrong (let alone the universe itself) does not exist without God.
Right now somewhere out there a star is going supernova and destroying all the planets in that star system and all life on those planets. The universe doesn't care.
The universe doesn't have a mind TO BE ABLE to care.
God is life. Not some "force."
Because you say so?
The Bible says He knows the stars by name.
How much more does He care about human beings?
Is what?
It was written by humans.
Indeed. 40 humans across a period of 1600 years, yet it tells a consistent and coherent story.
Have you ever tried writing a story with someone else? How about if you've never met them? And how about if they were separated from you by over a hundred years? How could you hope to have two stories that not only agree with each other, but that are consistent with a greater story that is yet unfinished?
I assert such a thing is not possible without divine inspiration.
Whatever that's supposed to mean.