Heres a post from many years ago that really sums it all up billy1000.
The God in the Bible is not the Genuine Greatest Creator
Xuefeng
First
of all, we have to admit that the Bible is the accomplishment of the
Ephraim which loyally records the Jewish history, explains the
relationship between the God, Devil and human beings to the furthest
degree, and gives the direction the human beings should take.
The
Bible, the Koran, the Buddhist Scripture and the Tao Te Ching are the
eternal and effective treasures and collections of human wisdom,
teaching us how to behave and develop into the higher level of life
space. The tenth and final plague of Egypt was the death of all first born in
Egypt — no one escaped, from the lowest servant to Pharaoh's own
first-born son, including first-born of livestock.
It is
understandable that the God punished Egypt because Egyptian Pharaoh
wouldn't obey his order. However, it was unreasonable and went too far
to kill the first-born of all humans and animals in Egypt. You can
punish the Egyptian Pharaoh for his disobedience. Why inflicting on the
common people? Even worse, the God would kill the kids of the girl
slaves working as donkeys in the lowest rank. Can we still say the God
behaving like this merciful? It was behaving without humanitarianism
just like a Devil.
Even more abominable, the Pharaoh of
Egypt wouldn't let the Israelis leave mainly because the God had
hardened the Pharaoh's heart. Before the Ten Plagues came, the God in
the Bible had done something. According to 7:3
in the Exodus, Jehovah
told Moses, “And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs
and my wonders in the land of Egypt.”
It means the God in the
Bible had prepared a trap for the Egyptians, trying to find an excuse
for the following plagues. In Exodus 8:19, “Then the magicians said to
Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart was hardened,
and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.”. In Exodus 9:35,
“And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the
children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.” In Exodus
10:20, “But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let
the children of Israel go.” In Exodus 10:27, “But the LORD hardened
Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.”
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”.
The first sentence in the Bible did tell the truth. But the things
covered by the cossack may not be the holly things. And the people
wearing the sacred cassock may not be the abbot.
The problem with the Bible is that the God it introduces is not the genuine Greatest Creator.
We
have known that the Greatest Creator has the 8 features. The Greatest
Creator is sole and only, amorphous, neutral, mysterious, impartial,
merciful, supremely powerful and wise. The wisdom of the Greatest
Creator is revealed through its establishment of the Universe order,
design of the life program and knowledge about the past and the future.
Let’s explain this with examples.
The Betrayal of Adam and EveAccording
to the Genesis, Adam and Eve were instigated to eat the fruit on the
Wisdom Tree forbidden by the God in the Bible. Because they have
violated the order of the God (in the Bible), they were repelled out of
the Eden.
It indicates that the God in the Bible is a. incompetent; b. improvident; and c. impartial.
He
is incompetent because he was a loser at the beginning. The first
couple of human he created betrayed him. So can we still say it is
supremely powerful?
Can we still believe in a “person” who often
loses? The Great Flood had killed most of the human beings. What
happened to them afterwards? They still wouldn’t listen to his words.
The Moses Ten Commandments are actually the directives of the God in the
Bible. Can you tell me how many of them are obeyed by the human being?
Actually not even one. The God in the Bible seemed to know nothing about
how to control the human beings. The only measure it takes is to voice
warnings and threats against the human beings. Thousands of years has
passed, the human beings remain the same. Is there no means to control
the human beings? Or is there some other force constraining this
Almighty God? If this is the case, is this God not sole or only? For
thousands of years, the human beings have been violating hisorder. What
is he waiting for?
The God in the Bible is improvident because he
didn't know that Adam and Eve were going to betray him or the
development trend of what he had created. Is this God, who is not able
to predict the future or the past, still reliable? If the Earth is going
to get out of the Solar System and this God knows nothing about it, how
can he save the human beings? How can this GOD administer the deities,
Buddha, celestial beings and Devils when he found it difficult to
control the human beings? How can he manage the spacious Universe?
The God in the Bible is impartial because it cannot tell wrong from the right and because it is unreasonable.
Why
would Adam and Eve betray the God in the Bible? There are three major
reasons. First, the genetic structure of Adam and Eve had faults, or was
imperfect. The life created by this God was now its own constraint.
This angered the God very much. It is just like the house built by an
architect who put every efforts was fallen and hit his own feet. Is the
house or the architect that should be blamed?
The second reason
they betrayed is that they were instigated and seduced by the snake.
Adam and Eve are humans while behind the snake was the Devil Satan. The
energy and wisdom of human beings can’t match those of the Devil. This
God didn’t punish the Devil Satan. Instead, it imposed inflictions on
Adam and Eve and drove them out of Eden. Is it fair? If a rapist raped
an 8-year-old girl, would it be fair to blame the girl for her sexual
organ and weakness instead of bringing justice to the rapist?
The
third reason of betrayal, which is also the most important one, is the
damned Wisdom Tree that can tell the good and evil. Who has planted it
in the Eden and why? It’s just like putting a poisonous sweet on the
dinner table for the kids. Or it’s like playing the porn video for the
young girls while teaching them to retain their innocence. Would a moral
person do such a thing? Isn’t this “person” who planted the Wisdom Tree
in the Eden has caused the betrayal of Adam and Eve?
Besides,
does this God, who had created Adam and Eve, has other measures to take
rather than driving Adam and Eve out of the Eden? Is it fair not to give
them a second chance simply because they have made only one mistake?
Does one mistake justify their life-long sins?Jesus came to the Mortal World to atone for the human beings’ sins.
According to the Bible, all the people have their “original sin”. Where
does the “original sin” come from? Actually, they are inherited from
Adam and Eve, the ancestors of human beings, whose sins were formed
because they had eaten the fruit on the damned Wisdom Tree.
When
we are born, we have the “original sin” inherited from Adam and Eve. The
“cross” on our back was much too heavy. According to this logic, “the
son of a thief is always a thief”, “the son of a criminal is always a
criminal”, and “the son of an emperor is always an emperor”. That’s why
in ancient China, in the feudal period in particular, “If a man
committed crime, all his family members would be sentenced to death”, or
“If a man attained the Tao, even his pets ascended to Heaven”. This
also explains why the thrones can only be passed on to the next
generations of royal families. This is because it complies with the
logic in the Bible.
If somebody has sins, the God in the Bible
and the Satan sined first. Is it humanitarian to inflict on billions of
humans throughout the history simply because of the wrongdoings of Adam
and Eve? Why not executing Adam and Eve and creating a new pair of
humans at the time? Is creating a new couple so difficult for the God in
the Bible?
All the people are born with sins. This is why each
of us comes to the Mortal World to endure the sufferings. But the sins
are not inherited from our ancestors. They are made by oursleves in the
previous cycle of life. If we don’t have sins, we would all have become
Buddha or celestial beings.
Ten Plagues of EgyptAccording
to the Exodus, when Moses and Aaron, in the capacity of the GOD in the
Bible, asked the Egyptian Pharaoh to let the Israelis leave Egypt, they
were refused. Consequently, the GOD in the Bible imposed 10 plagues on
Egypt.
1. Plague of Blood The water of the Nile will be changed
into blood. The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the
Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.2. Plague of Frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up
into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of
your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading
troughs. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your
officials.
3. Plague of Lice.The dust of the ground became lice,
lice came upon men and animals. All the dust throughout the land of
Egypt became lice.
4. Plague of Flies The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground where they are.
5.
Plague of Livestock Death The fifth plague of Egypt was an epidemic
disease which exterminated the Egyptian livestock; that is, horses,
donkeys, camels, cattle, sheep and goats;
6. Plague of Boils The sixth plague of Egypt was Shkhin. The Shkhin was a kind of skin disease, usually translated as "boils".;
7. Plague of Hail The seventh plague of Egypt was a destructive storm;
8.
Plague of Locusts Locusts will devour what little you have left after
the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields.;
9. Plague of Darkness Total darkness covered all Egypt for three days
10. Death of the Firstborn
