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Why isn’t the Bible, God’s Holy Word to mankind, written with clear, simple

instructions so that any literate person can pick it up and immediately understand exactly what God wants us all to know? Why did God give us such a complicated, confusing Holy Book that we ignorant saps in the pews are incapable of figuring out what the heck he is really saying? Why must we constantly depend upon seminary-trained pastors and theologians to explain God’s real meaning and message…to us?

You don’t believe that this is true? Just look back at the last five or six of my most recent posts on this blog. In these posts I have asked numerous famous conservative Christian theologians and apologists to explain some very simple “discrepancies” in God’s divine message to mankind (the Bible), and what do every one of them end up telling me?

“If you want to understand what God really means regarding _____, you should read _____ book and then when you are done with that book, read ______ book, and then….

What’s up???

Imagine that you have just been told that you have a terminal illness: You have three months left to live. You immediately think of your young children. Who will teach them all the things that they will need to learn as they grow up? Will they remember you? Will they know how much you loved them?

So what do you do? Answer: you record a video or you write each of them a detailed but easily understandable letter. You tell them how much you love them. You give them advice on growing up and how to handle each stage of life. You tell them how to be a good person and how to treat others.

Isn’t that what any loving, caring parent would do?

Yet Christianity tells us that our Heavenly Father did not do this. His Son, Jesus, our Savior and Lord, did not do this. What Jesus did was this: He told a lot of confusing parables. In three of the Gospels at least, he never tells his followers who he really is. He gives his followers seemingly contradictory instructions: “Keep the Law”…”You don’t need to keep the Law”. And he never wrote down any instructions, such as “This is how to be a good Christian”. What he did do was leave this job to four anonymous men, writing 30-40 years after his death, and a non-eyewitness, Paul, who tells us hardly anything about at all about Jesus’ life, miracles, and ministry…to tell us in confusing, often contradictory stories and sermons, how we are to serve and honor our Father!

Why?

Think about this: Most conservative Christians spend a lot of time studying how they are right and how every one else is wrong. I sure did. “Orthodox Lutheranism is the true form of Christianity, and I am going to make sure every one on the internet knows it!” If you go onto any conservative Christian blog or website, what are they usually talking about: how they are right, and the other “heterodox” Christians, or the Mormons, or the JW’s, or the Muslims, are wrong.

I would encourage every orthodox/conservative Christian to do this:

Set aside your complicated, technical debates with other Christians over Predestination, the purpose of Baptism, Inerrancy, Objective vs. Subjective Justification, Salvation by Faith Alone vs. Salvation by Faith and Works…and then take a step back and look at Christianity, not as a Lutheran, Baptist, evangelical, Roman Catholic, Methodist, etc., etc., just look at Christianity as the intelligent, educated, twenty-first century human being that you are…

What is Christianity…really?

I did that and here is what I found:

Christianity is a religion, a Faith, that believes that the God of the Jewish people, a small ethnic group originating in the Middle East, is the one true God, the All-mighty, All-knowing Ruler of the Universe. Christians believe that this God, named Yahweh, is the one true God based on a collection of ancient Jewish Holy Writings, many of which we have no idea who wrote them.

This God Yahweh, who has always existed, one day decided that he wanted to create a universe with planets and galaxies, and on one of those planets, in one small solar system he decided to create trees, plants, mountains, water…and…living creatures, including human beings; beings that looked like himself. We don’t know why a God who is perfect and therefore incapable of being bored or lonely would want to do this, but he did. And of course, with God being all-knowing, he knew exactly what lay in store for the future of his Creation, even before he started creating it…but he created it anyway.

When God created the human beings, he made them the rulers of his universe. He placed them, completely naked, into a beautiful garden where they played with lions, tigers, and bears as if they were kittens and puppies. God gave them all kinds of plants and fruit to eat. However, God decided to put a very special tree right smack dab in the middle of his beautiful garden. He told the humans that this was a forbidden tree. We don’t know why Yahweh felt the need to create a tree that he would then forbid his created beings from eating, but he did. The humans could eat of any other tree in the garden, but not from the tree that he put smack dab in the middle of the Garden; right where they would have to walk by it and see it’s beautiful, appealing fruit…day, after day, after day, after day…

One day, as the female human was walking past the Forbidden Tree, a walking/talking snake tricked her into eating a piece of the Forbidden Fruit. The female human then talked her male companion into eating the Forbidden Fruit. After the male human ate the Forbidden Fruit, they both saw that they were naked (for some reason the woman did not notice she was naked immediately when she ate the forbidden fruit, but anyway) and hid from Yahweh. But Yahweh found them as he was strolling through the Garden. What was Yahweh’s punishment for eating forbidden fruit? A time out? A slap on the wrist? No. God kicked them out of the Garden; He made them work like dogs just to eat; He then punished them with disease, war, pestilence, droughts, hunger, murder, rape, incest, child abuse, and many other forms of horrific suffering…all over eating a piece of fruit, from a tree he placed right smack dab in the middle of the Garden, right under their noses.

But that isn’t the end. Yahweh has a really short fuse, it seems. A few years later, Yahweh blows his fuse and decides to kill all living creatures on earth because the human beings are sinning…(all the result, you remember, of their great, great, etc., grandparents eating forbidden fruit…from a tree, he put smack dab in the middle of the Garden, right under their noses… So Yahweh drowns the entire population of the earth, including every innocent child and helpless baby…except for one man (an alcoholic flasher) and his three sons and their families, who are ordered to build a huge boat that will save them and over 20 million species of animals from the Great Flood.

Several hundred years later after that act, Yahweh decides that he is going to choose just one man and his descendents to bless and to be their God. This man’s grandson, Jacob, becomes the father of the Hebrews. Over the next two thousand or so years, Yahweh does miraculous things for this one tiny group of people living in the desert backwaters of the Middle East. The entire population of the rest of the world is neglected and treated with contempt by Yahweh and his “chosen” people. The rest of the world’s humans are referred to as “heathens”, “pagans”, and whose lives have the same value as “dogs”. Yahweh proceeds to kills thousands, if not millions of men, women, and even children in his bloodbath to bless the Hebrews and to give them the land of Palestine.

Then, after thousands of years of letting the rest of the world’s population suffer, die, and presumably go to Hell, God sends his Son, who is one and the same with himself, to Palestine, to be crucified, to appease the righteous anger of…himself..for the evil sin of the original human beings having eaten the forbidden fruit, from the tree that he put smack dab in the middle of the Garden, right under their noses.

But God’s Son, Jesus, doesn’t go to the largest metropolitan centers of the world with his message of love and forgiveness; thereby reaching the maximum number of people with the Good News of forgiveness for ancestor-forbidden-fruit-eating, hereafter referred to as, AFFE. No. Jesus goes to the backwaters of the Roman Empire, the deserts of the Middle East, where he speaks in riddles, tells no one except the author of John that he is God, the Creator, does minor miracles that only a few people allegedly witness (why not a flashing light on the moon announcing: “God has come. He is in Palestine. Believe, repent, and be baptized”.) But no, he doesn’t do that. Jesus makes the ultimate sacrifice for AFFE, dying on a cross, in relative obscurity, and leaves the planet without leaving behind any handwritten instructions.

But luckily for Christians, some 20-60 years later, anonymous letters start popping up, which are eventually deemed by a bunch of old churchmen to be the very Words of Jesus, the Christ!

Oh…and Jesus is going to come back soon, before this generation dies…or…maybe over two thousands years from now.

And another thing, if you don’t follow the teachings of these mostly anonymous writers and repent of AFFE…Yahweh is going to fry your ass in a Lake of Fire for all eternity!

Come on, folks! The is the stupidest, most ignorant, superstitious nonsense ever cooked up! These are ancient superstitions and legends. It is time to put Yahweh in the graveyard of mythical deities…right next to Baal, Ra, Zeus, and Jupiter. None of them exist! It is all ignorant, superstitious nonsense. Educated, intelligent people now have access to massive amounts of research and evidence disproving the superstitious claims of the Bible. More and more people will soon see this nonsense for what it is…and reject it…freeing themselves from the brainwashing of their childhoods.

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We need to make one for Yahweh﻿