[TBP]

The thrice holy God of the Bible is a God of wrath

Perpetually angry, demands worship, demands compliance with His every whim or He'll destroy you forever.

Sounds like a liberal.

[.45 Long Colt]

You have an unbalanced view of His attributes. I strongly suggest you both get into God’s Word and listen to the recent sermon series on the attributes of God by Dr. Stephen Lawson. Below is a link to part one.

The Attributes of God 1
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=8614824416

[daniel1212]

Perpetually angry, demands worship, demands compliance with His every whim or He'll destroy you forever. Sounds like a liberal.

So you read the Bible thru the eyes of the likes of Dawkins, who seems to have had an abusive father?

Perpetually angry,

And just where do you get this from? Those who wrote of knowing Him (as in the Psalms) and of Christ who manifested God in the flesh, or the accounts of His warnings and judgments after much long-suffering, upon perpetually wicked and rebellious people? Or a books like "The God delusion" by a seriously deluded man?

demands worship, demands compliance with His every whim or He'll destroy you forever.

Which "whim" is actually that which conforms to a static documents, unlike the objectively baseless moral basis for atheists. And which comprehensive obedience God only commands of those who enters covenant with Him, having found faith in Him as warranted based upon a level of evidence. In addition, all morally able souls are to basically worship the creator according to the light they have, vs. the created. And why would this be wrong if this requirement of choice of worship would be what is best for man, and testifies that one loves what is truly Good?

It is not wrong to require that one's god be the creator, if, 1. It was best for man, and revealed what kind of heart one had in so doing or not doing? If would only be wrong if God required it for His selfish gratification and ego, which is what the devil (the original liberal, and "share the wealth" victim entitlement promoter) and liberals seek.

In contrast, nowhere in Scripture is God shown having a need for anything (Acts 17:25 expressly says He does not), and actually would spare Himself grief if man did not exist. And God is always giving, giving and giving. ,

In addition, everyone worships/lives for/making something their ultimate object of spiritual affection and obedience/finds their ultimate security in something, either the Creator or the created.

But only the Creator is omnipotent and can never fail, and is perfect, thus it is right and good that one worship God over created things.

Thus those who reject God and choose false gods reveal their own iniquity. Atheists must thus find fault with God, but if they were perfect, all-wise and knowing and almighty then they could say negative things about those who rejected them, which reveals their love of the contrary. Its sin or Him.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (John 3:19-20)

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Sounds like a liberal.

A guy saying that he should live however he wants, regardless of what the Creator has to say about it, sounds like a liberal on his way to hell.

[Springfield Reformer]

Perpetually angry, demands worship, demands compliance with His every whim or He'll destroy you forever.

Sounds like a liberal.

In a sense you're right. The liberal's core problem is their de facto atheism. They have no god but themselves, so they either soften the hard edges of the true God or eliminate Him altogether.  This allows them to become gods unto themselves.

However, they aren't very good at it, being mere created beings with almost non-existent intelligence relative to the true God. That's why all their god-replacement projects fail. What else can be expected?  They just aren't up to it.

Which is where the analogy breaks down. Their attempt to be God is inherently frustrating, and they do not keep their peace, but are constantly striving for unattainable superiority.  This is more that human hearts were designed to withstand, and it drives them into a caricature of God, which caricature is angry, and megalomaniacal, and vindictive. So far from the infinite wisdom and peace and joy and love bound up in the true God it is both ridiculous and tragic beyond words.

As for whether one likes or dislikes the true God, in one sense it is hardly relevant. He's not changing for anybody.  It's not like He's just some guy down the street. If someone doesn't like Him, it amounts to not liking the only source of love, beauty, truth, goodness in the universe. There's nowhere else to go.  Hell is really all that remains for those who can't abide God.

Peace,

SR

[SoFloFreeper]

you misconstrue the God of the Bible.

He gave his only Son for salvation. If that isn’t love on the grandest scale, then love doesn’t exist.