Why is it so important to those that do not believe

[MisterVeritis]

The same way as I would describe someone that could walk out of a burning house by using a door they thought was ugly and choose not to.

God did not invent sin, he invented free will as slavery would have been a sin. That man chooses to sin was not gods fault and he could have just left it at that. But he choose to provide a bridge and make it simple to find and free to cross, those that choose not to find it?

That is not on him or me or anyone for that matter.

So I would call a God that does that, Merciful!

Your god set the house on fire.

[Matt DilIon]

Your god set the house on fire.

Y U cryin' with the hose in your hand and the water's on?

[zelmo1234]

Your god set the house on fire.

No man did that he did not force them to eat the apple!

[MisterVeritis]

Y U cryin' with the hose in your hand and the water's on?

Is English your second language?

[MisterVeritis]

No man did that he did not force them to eat the apple!

Nonsense.
Why do you let your monster off the hook?

[Cletus]

Yeah, that's not happenin', brah.

With no absolute morality, there is no basis for any morality.

There has to be a standard for everything else to be compared to.

Thanks for making my point.

[Standing Wolf]

I guess that we look at things differently, I know that I don't try and tell people how to believe, yet I am answered constantly with them telling me what a monster my God is?

Is there something that makes non believers feel better if the God of Christianity is a monster?

If you tell me that you work for someone who has the power to end all wars, disease, hunger and suffering, yet doesn't...who insists that his employees follow a set of rules for life that mostly deal with telling him how great he is and abstaining from having sex in ways that he doesn't approve of...who teaches that refusal to believe everything he tells you about himself will result in punishment even after death...I'd have to say that your boss is, at a bare minimum, a d*ck and a psychopath.

If God exists, he seriously needs a new Public Relations staff. The Christian god may have, at some point, been "worthy of all praise" - but we'll never know for sure, because people over the last two millennia have buried him beneath a mountain of pride, arrogance and entitlement. By far the absolute worst advertisement for Christianity is the attitude and behavior of some Christians.

[Chris]

I find most atheists are antitheists in the sense they argue against what they believe is theism. They're just fighting demons in their own heads, a form of cognitive dissonance.

[Cletus]

Why do you think that?

[zelmo1234]

Nonsense.
Why do you let your monster off the hook?

In the beginning Man had One rule don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. that was it! Why do you blame god for the actions of Man.

Why is it that you think God would be responsible for that?