Did you mean Cicero?

Who cares what I said? It's not like this is a debate or anything.

If you knew anything about Christianity you'd know that the New Testament offers two commandments which replace the Decalogue: Love God, and Love your neighbor.

Matthew claims that all laws are valid.

What "other guy"?

Cierco said "We are all God's servants/slaves and doing wrong when He returns requires punishment even if we were unaware"

It doesn't matter if it says he is loving, caring and protecting, but then he goes off and does something evil.

I think the concept of God can instill morals in people and create a sense of unity for humanity

The concept of God does the opposite. People will always have different ways of looking at the same thing.

No. You stated the "Christian God". He is not the God of the Christians in the Old Testament.

The old testament is still the Bible. Christians obey the 10 commandments, do they not?

Where is your proof?

According to the other guy, we're all his slaves, and disobeying him seems to require eternal damnation.

That is very relevant to the current debate, idiot.

As is patting him on the ass.

I'm not surprised that nobody has posted in the other column.

"I'll ignore the Old Testament for simplicity's sake."

Very convenient. It's the same book and the same God.

"We are all God's servants/slaves and doing wrong when He returns requires punishment even if we were unaware."

So God has billions of slaves, and abuses them. You just proved the entire debate.

Agreed, this is pretty much what I meant by "evil."

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Reading the bible made me an atheist.

I like how this argument has deteriorated into

"He disagrees with us, let's call him sad."

"In the eyes of a fool maybe."

"Fool" being "Non-Christian?"

"When did I ever state that God is benevolent?"

That's the whole purpose of this argument.

And then suffer infinitely for it? He's very loving indeed.

I don't think a Nazi has any place arguing about good or evil. But that's another topic.

But if God shows wrath, one of the seven deadly sins, then God isn't infinitely good.

The Christians claim he isn't evil, yet the bible itself shows many cases in which he is.

The world IS ugly, in many places, look at war, genocide, and everything else that has happened.

What an evil being for punishing a finite amount of harm with an infinite amount of suffering. Apparently, we're all going to hell by default without Jesus.

Eternal punishment is certainly merciful. Hitler contributed greatly to the German economy, I suppose that makes him a great leader.

It's certainly adding to the stagnation of society and culture.

To clarify, I mean the barriers between people in a community based on race, etc.

Because the collapse of social barriers would be a good thing, and the world would be a better place.

If by "collapse" you're referring to social barriers, then yes.

Yes, there are many passages in the bible in which the Bible (supposedly the Word of God) condones slavery:

1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT (Slaves should respect their masters)

Luke 12:47-48 NLT (Jesus clearly approves of beating slaves even if they didn't know they were doing anything wrong)

Ephesians 6:5 NLT

Exodus 21:20-21 NAB (You can beat slaves, provided they take a few days to die from it)

Exodus 21:7-11 NLT (Sex Slaves)

Exodus 21:2-6 NLT (Anti Semitism)

Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT

Human Sacrifice:

Exodus 13:2 (Burning first-born children)

Leviticus 27:28-29

Joshua 7:15 NLT

1 Kings 13:1-2 NLT

2 Kings 23:20-25 NLT

Wisdom 3:5-7 NAB

Ezekiel 21:33-37 NAB

Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT

Rape:

Judges 21:10-24 NLT

Numbers 31:7-18 NLT

Deuteronomy 20:10-14

Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT

Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB

2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB

Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB

Judges 5:30 NAB

Exodus 21:7-11 NLT

Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB

Also, according to the Bible, God himself commits atrocities, such as:

Subjecting every living thing that will ever exist to death after his talking snake, which he created, tricked his subjects into eating an apple.

Killing almost every living thing with a flood.

Killing all the first born children in Egypt. (After the 9th plague, God influenced the Pharaoh to say no. Thus prolonging his followers' captivity so that he could commit mass infanticide.)

The use of eternal punishment.