You have the same evidence for God as young kids have for Santa Claus.
You're comparing a belief in something that is known to be untrue, and something that is unknown to be untrue.I'm comparing two fictional characters. There is absolutely no difference.
What did God give you?
Free will, 'Pain, misery, wars, stake burning, chopping hands and feet, stoning, chopping heads off, etc.' are a direct result of said free will.People chopped hands off, burn people alive because they thought Bible is a word of God. Nothing to do with free will (not even sure what you mean). It has everything to do with the God's legal advice.
There is no Santa Claus just like there is no God.
The existence of Santa Clause can be dis-proven, but the existence of God can only be speculated.God is not physically observable so by definition it does not exist.
God is the most vengeful, hateful, masochistic, misogynistic being ever invented by a human mind.
You're right, God is all things including loving, forgiving, and righteous; Anything the human mind can imagine was put there by God.You have no proof our thoughts were put in our heads by God. You want proof: Burn the Bible.
I became Atheist reading first few verses when he created Earth in the dark, then created plants before creating the Sun and the Stars.
A plant can be created without it growing; seeds can sprout in darkness. Besides, you got that verse twisted, read "whose seed is in itself", meaning it hasn't grown yet.You are twisting a bronze age dream to fit our current understanding of how the world was created. 1000 years ago people would not interpret this creation story the same way as you do today. You are injecting your own bias.
There is no mention of physics behind the world creation which proves one thing: it is a bronze age story.
If this creation story does make sense to you, you are clueless:
Day 1: He created Earth (formless and empty) and heaven in the dark. Spirit of God was covering waters, Then he created light
Day 2: He separated sky (the vault) from the water (some magic water that did not freeze)
Day 3: He created dry land (after he created Earth) and plants
Day 4: He created Sun and other stars (poor plants, they had to wait for Sun to show up)
Day 5: Created animals
Day 6: Started farming (no industrial revolution, no science, no Internet? Why not?)
That's a pretty twisted way of reading Genesis. Here's my interpretation:Day 1: He created Earth (formless and empty) and heaven in the dark. Spirit of God was covering waters, Then he created light
Day 2: He separated sky (the vault) from the water (some magic water that did not freeze)
Day 3: He created dry land (after he created Earth) and plants
Day 4: He created Sun and other stars (poor plants, they had to wait for Sun to show up)
Day 5: Created animals
Day 6: Started farming (no industrial revolution, no science, no Internet? Why not?)
Day 0: Spirit of God gets an idea, the Earth and Heavens. Neither exist, thus void and formless and are referred to as "waters".
Day 1: God creates light, divides it from the darkness, calls it night and day.
Day 2: God "divided waters from waters" and separated matter from anti-matter, creating Earth and Heavens.
Day 3: Dry land and oceans formed, then the Earth brings forth plants, whose seed is in itself (so the plants didn't have to wait for sun cuz they haven't grown)
Day 4: Then God made the Sun and Moon, day and night, seasons, etc...
Day 5: Sea creatures and flying things.
Day 6: Land animals & Man in the likeness of God in Spirit.
Day 7: Sabbath
Day 8: God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. THEN, man started farming; industrial revolution came after.
and so on... To add to the confusion, 'heaven' seems to be used in place of 'sky', 'space', and 'heaven as in dimention'.
PS: NIV is terrible, KJV or Tanakh in Hebrew or go home.
Except the Bible says he created Earth and Heaven on day 1. The waters refers to actual waters. The bronze age understanding of the world was that the heavens and Earth are separated by a dome surrounded by water. This dome was enclosing a flat Earth that was supported by pillars.
I you are defending it, you are a despicable human being.
People do fucked up shit and a lot of that was recorded in the bible. In modern times, we keep our bullshit in what we call "history".But you guys say Bible was inspired by God. So the moral code was inspired by God as well, or you conveniently skip that part and only the nice (love your neighbor parts) are inspired by God? That is what I would call an intellectual dishonesty.
I'd not even know how to twist these words.
Evil hearts spew evil from their mouths. Pointing out misunderstood bible verses is one thing, but you follow up with extremelt hateful speech: "unless you are already a psychopath"
"a collective work of some sick, bronze age psychopaths"
"you are a despicable human being"
And I'm not even halfway through the thread yet.
You are a psychopath if you think the moral code in the Bible is the correct moral code to follow. There is no question about it.
Check yourself to a mental institution because you might be a danger to other people.
Anyone who believes everything in the Bible is true and is word of God is either ignorant or dishonest.
Ok. Your blanket statements are starting to piss me off.See: 2 Timothy 3:16
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness"
Inspiration does not equal fact. Ever watch a movie that states "inspired by a true story"? Same idea: take the moral, leave the details.
You are ignorant of modern moral code, modern legal systems and modern ethics.
You are dishonest because you ignore nasty parts of the Bible and concentrate on the nice parts. That is dishonesty. Deal with the vile parts first. Reconcile those with modern times first, before you even read the rest of this vile book.
After I saw responses from the Christians on this forum, I have changed the title of this thread.
Why not include "crazy shit atheists say"? Everyone here is an asshole so why point one group out over another?Atheist position is the most rational, most compatible with science position. We are in the mists of the scientific revolution, if you care to notice.
Show us the wisdom of God.
Their silence is proof of wisdom. Wisdom to withhold the fuel that feeds the hateful fire you've started.Your God is dick on wheels. And he is imaginary. How can you not see it?
Those aren't quotes, just some vague and inaccurate descriptions of a few verses.
And you copied and pasted them from Google anyway.
So go ahead and Google for answers if you're interested.
And you copied and pasted them from Google anyway.
So go ahead and Google for answers if you're interested.
That is what I thought. Ignorance is a bliss.
What are you talking about. It is your God inspired book. I did not write it.
What I have problem is with people who try to tell me black is white. Believe it or die.
I have a problem with shit disturbers like you. You've made absolutely zero points other than proof of hate for the bible. So what? Keep your shit to yourself, and if someone presses their white on your black then press back when it's appropriate.I'm not lying, it says the Earth is flat with 4 corners, squared in fact:
Give me a shape with an end four squares and which is not flat!
Not in fact, you've added the squared part. What is fact is words sometimes have two meanings.See here for the four corners and their corresponding ends:
I know, he thinks we are attacking his religion.
How are you completely blind to the fact that you are attacking religion?! 
I'm pointing out the craziness and irrationality of this myth.