How many times have you commanded someone to love someone else?

Define love without using the word "love."

What is perfect love?  What is the scale by which we can put an endpoint on love?

Define free will.

 So god is not omnipotent.  Fair enough.

But, God created the garden, adam, and eve (and lilith, too!) knowing exactly what would happen.  So, the first disobedient act was unavoidable... 'cause god's perfect, and it couldn't have been against his will.

So, his will was for billions of people to be in hell.  Sounds awesome.  Where do I sign up?

 You know, it's funny....   Last I checked there are over 30,000 Christian denominations in the world, and they can't seem to get their shit together to decide what's right and wrong.  Why is god so schizophrenic?

I thought god was everywhere?  If evil is the absence of godliness, and god could not possibly be without himself, he must not be everywhere.

Therefore, god is not omnipresent.  Wow... you're shooting your god in his foot.  If he were all powerful, he might be able to smite you for it.

 So, it's ok for god to hate, but not for us, but perfect is one term... except perfect for us isn't perfect for him and perfect for him isn't perfect for us... so perfect doesn't mean perfect except when it means perfect...

ow...  my brain hurts.

Odd that he only mentioned the things that we had already figured out on our own.. Every civilized culture -- ever -- figured out that you shouldn't kill and steal.  As for the adultery part, you need to do some reading.  You're sorely uneducated on human sexuality.  As for the coveting of your neighbor's ass -- have you noticed that the commandment is impossible?  You can keep yourself from acting on your desire, but you can't control what you want and what you don't want.  Then again, I'm guessing you haven't really done much in the field of cognition and neuroscience.  Just a hunch.

Funny you should mention that.  I wrote an essay about it.  You can read it HERE. 

Me, too.

This might be true, but making up answers doesn't help.  

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Suit yourself.  It's a stupid belief.

Funny.  I'm in the process of writing a rather lengthy piece on human sexuality and culture.  You should give it a look.

Oh, and if you will kindly read the piece linked at the bottom, I'll refute your argument that love and sex are not related.

HORSESHIT.

Other gods have sacrificed themselves.  Have you ever read any Greek or Roman mythology?  Any at all?

Our purpose is to eat the warm things, and observe the images! duh!

O'Really?

Crom; Leaves us the fuck alone... and would even go to lengths of SMITING people who pray to him >.>

Aphrodite; Gives us love and lust... and is one hot biotch (lol, me thinks that luv beats jeebus luv any day... or night ^_^)

Sheogorath; Utterly insane and unpredictable, gives our lives a sense of... chaos ... and humor

Need i continue?

i could... thousands more gods and goddesses are left on the great list

I consider being useful to society and those I care about much more noble purposes than just being around to kiss Yahweh's buttocks.

Look at other savior myths before you pull that "No other God made such a sacrifice" stuff. I'm sure others will take you to task about Jesus' "Weekend at Bernie's" being a sacrifice.

I run a blog about debating hot issues like religion and politics.

The issue of good and evil is the most precedent in all of man’s duality archetypes.

"The only difference between genius and insanity is success"
This^
was wrote by Hitler himself.

The perception of good and evil or genius and insanity is completely in the eye of the beholder. If Hitler’s army would have taken over the world and exterminated all of the Jews his people and followers would view him as a genius. His name would be held higher then god himself. But he didn’t take over the world, so his lack of success established the perception of insanity. When it comes down to good and evil, using Hitler as an example again, he didn’t think what he was doing was evil, nor did his followers, no one thinks who they are, are what they do is evil because everyone, from the smallest to largest "evil" justifies it in there own minds.

So evil inherently does not exist.

In discussions with evangelicals or even simply Christians it’s obvious that their agenda is to save me from my ways of evil. They always drift from the discussion or distort the meaning of what I accept as facts. The reason is simple. A Christian cannot for even one microsecond doubt that they are saved by the blood of Jesus. Any thought that the entire Bible might be a product of paranoia of man is unthinkable because doubt could in their opinion result in permanent damnation. I conclude discussion between an ex-believer and a believer is like the commercial on TV for a stock trader. In this commercial a man is talking to a psychologist and he responds to the man in Italian.

My observation and experience as a former believer is facts are over-ridden by faith. If the belief is contradicted by facts of observation the believer challenges the facts or distorts the conclusion. If one discusses the Universe is filled with many stars and galaxies, trillions of both and suggests that it is likely we are not the only intelligent life form, a response of see how wonderful God has made everything usually follows. This detracts from the observable fact there are trillions of stars in uncountable galaxies with possible planets that may have life. If so, why would we be so important that entire star systems are destroyed to kill us as in Revelation? Of course God could simply be a super advanced individual from any of these billions of other star systems as well. How do you know for sure he is not? The claim in The Bible is that God is the greatest in the hall of gods, see Psalms. Does that mean he is the chief administrator for our spiral arm in the Milky Way or the President of The Federation of Milky Way Planets? How can you know? The usual Christian reaction to non-belief is prove that God is not real. Sure, as soon as you prove he is not from an inner planet on our spiral arm 250 million years more advanced in knowledge and technology. You go first.

Believers operate in a mystical spiritual dimension that overrides reality. A belief supercedes a fact that contradicts the faith of the believer. Christians believed for years the world was flat on pillars and the Earth was the center of all creation. A non-believer operates on observed facts in a dimension of observation. Faith has no basis in factual observation. Believers challenge factual based individuals that they too accept ideas on faith, as there really are galaxies, stars, atoms, molecules, and rational explanations. The believer claims the factual based individual accepts someone else’s word for these observations. The difference is I can actually use a microscope to view small particles and a telescope to view stars and galaxies. I can use mathematics to duplicate the calculations of a physicists and cosmologists. I can reproduce experiments to confirm their results if I so chose. Facts or theories can be verified to some extent if one decides while faith cannot. I have no way to prove that the Bible events are true when the event is a single person account. I have many reasons to think they are myths and legends. Appealing to arguments proving the Bible by using the Bible is marginal and not proof. Even the Jews required 2 witnesses to substantiate testimony, see the Gospels. 

There is no way to resolve the difference between a person living in the spiritual dimension and one living in a fact-based dimension. The spiritual person bases decisions on things that can’t be seen or measured. He makes claims that can’t be proven or verified. The factual based person uses reality to make his decisions. If you challenge a believer he replies with a quote from the Bible as proof of his position. Unfortunately, most have little knowledge of Judaism and the foundation of their messiah. Most believers distance themselves from all of the atrocities committed by Christians forcing beliefs on others from the 4^th century until the present. Witch burning and heretic murders are said to be the responsibility of the state. The crusades are seen as a valiant effort to save the homeland of Jesus from pagan infidel Arabs. When you live outside of reality how can you expect tolerance and understanding for the views of others? Most Protestants have nothing but praise for Martin Luther. He however was a bigot and ranted anti-Semitic mad ravings in his writing and even as he lay dying.

Christianity and the belief in Jesus as the savior are based on the foundation of Judaism and Yahweh a.k.a. God. In order to accept the story of Jesus first the basis of God as taught by the Jews must be accepted or proven. If it is in error or misconstrued then anything built upon it will be given to error and misconception. In my own analysis, I have rejected much of the supposed activities of the Hebrew Bible as untrue. There are sufficient histories from other civilizations to show the stories of Moses, the Exodus, the invasion of The Promised Land, David, Solomon, the Kingdom of Israel, the Kingdom of Judah and the misapplied prophets are products of legends, myths, and distortion. I have seen sufficient proof to admit the following: There was a kingdom of Israel, there was a Kingdom of Judah, and there was a house of David mentioned (named in Mesha Steele). All the rest of the pretty tales and adventures may or may not have occurred in some form. Assyria conquered Israel, Babylon conquered Judah, and the Persians allowed some of the Judahites to return to Palestine in the 5^th century BCE. There are in a few cases history correlation between Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon, which substantiate some invasions, kings, and names. There are extreme contradictions of claims made in the Bible as to many events and reality.

In summary, my research, analysis, and careful thought have resulted in the conclusion that what I was taught as a Lutheran and Catholic cannot be true. What’s true? Who knows, but not the Paulinity-Judeo myths. In every story and chapter in The Bible there are sufficient problems to discredit it as a reality based account. Then there are of course several problems that destroy any and all arguments of belief such as; 1) Isaiah 45:7 “I form the Light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things” 2) Where in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) is there anything to show the fall of the angels other than Genesis 6:1-6? If all was perfect as in Genesis 1:31 when did the war in heaven happen? It’s not in the Bible but is in books such as Enoch and the books of Adam and Eve.

Since God accepted the blame and all liability in Isaiah 45:7 the rest of the fun, games, feudal justice system of morality are not needed. He created evil and thereby accepted all responsibility, no more need be said.