The more one learns about this god, the less it makes any sense at all.

At age 13, I became an atheist when I realized that Bible is just a book of stories or fables written by men.

Like Aesop's Fables and Grimm's Fairy Tales.

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Granted, it took numerous episodes (excellanty researched and delivered), but having listened to countless ‘methods of mental, social, and cultural control,’ by too many to count religion imitators and wannabes … it may not have ‘clicked,’ cuz I’d suspected as much ..but it definitely confirmed the sick tactics used by every religion to control their followers..

I'm convinced that things not making sense is not just not a dealbreaker for believers, but it is indeed a necessity to believers. They need there to be "paradoxes" and they need for their god to be all Zen and incomprehensible and contradictory. If it were all coherent and reasonable, then it would be cheap and ordinary. It would not rise to the required level of mystery that they crave so badly. Of course being mysterious doesn't make a thing true. The tragedy is that reality could provide them with plenty of mystery if they just didn't stigmatize astronomy and quantum physics as the liberal conspiracies that AM radio has convinced them science is.

a bad workman always blames his creation

According to the bible god only created adam and eve. I know how I was created, my parents had sex.

The funny thing is, early Judaism had no concept of Hell. They borrowed it later from the Greeks. It wasn't until around the book of Daniel that an afterlife is mentioned. And the Hebrew hells (there were between 7 and 13) were more like purgatories or waiting rooms, where you could get right with God and then still end up in heaven.

It was the Christians (after Augustine) who devised the idea of Hell as a lake of fire and so on, where eternal punishment is dished out for minor flaws. Frikkin Christians.

Original sin is a joke. It's all a joke.

Now I finally understand why the Christians love Trump so much. Put the way you say it, it's pretty easy to see why they view him as America's God. Your perplexion has become my clarity.

Yes, must have happened on a day when god felt a bit confused.

Only the Christian 'God'?

Yes, but it was not perplexing to the goat herders of the galaxy. They had no Internet and news traveled very slowly. Today we have Christian apologists to explain this stuff away.

If I got a plumber in to do a job, and he did it half as bad as God did when he "created man", I would not pay him.

"God" creates perfection in man. Sees he cocked up, so makes woman. Pops them into the perfect place to live with the proviso that they do NOT eat from the tree of knowledge (K.I.S.S principle? If they were created perfect, I suppose they already know everything or at least know everything they NEED to know) and they must worship Him and he will give them eternal life. Woman, (Eve) cannot do as she is told, and is 'tempted' by the serpent and eats from the tree. Therefore she is no longer perfect, because she has sinned by not doing what she was told. Hereby, almost all women throughout history have been the 'lower' of the two, men being far more important..... "God" then decided they are NOT perfect, so now they are ab;e to get sick, grow old and die... I don't find that bit perplexing - it's just a story (and not a very good one), but we still haven't found the missing link.... unless it's already on Earth somewhere...LOL

Why be perplexed? You invent a story, add attributes, your kids work it out, and you have to blame people for the failings, or the story falls apart.

The god of the babble is a twat, man made him in his own image.

Well the Bible never says it’s not perplexing or contradicting so it checks out.

As George Carlin said....but he loves you!

All the better to guilt you with, my dear.

Of course it makes no sense ,but brainwashing erases all ability and will to question the nonsense the followers of religions have been deluded to believe in

Not sure why there is a fascination with analyzing and archaic belief system.

God did nothing::: humans did. All good.

Simply worth ignoring as a non-starter of an idea!

It's a bitch fer shure, but if ya think about it... that kinda is the deal we got, no matter where it came from. Call it God - call it the Universe - call it the luck of the draw - we don't get to agree or disagree with being born. We are certainly imperfect, and we suffer terribly because of it. Replace the word god with the word reality and it's still as perplexing. No?