Where is the evidence that the Christian God is a "good" God if man, who is his highest creation because he alone is made in the image and likeness of God, is so evil? Man, by this standard, is the greatest evidence of just how "evil" God truly is, or at least how imperfect and even incompetent.
The rejoinder to this question offered by "believers" is that man has free will. But here is the problem with this reply - it only proves that God is incompetent. Here's why.
Consider the prison population around the world. World Prison Population List, published in December 2021, reports that there may well be in excess of 11.5 million prisoners worldwide. In 2021, there were 7.87 billion people in the world overall. 11.5 million is 0.146125% of 7.87 billion. Hence, more than 99.8% of people of all different religions manage to use their free will to avoid the "hell" of prison. That's an impressive number of people using their "free will" to obey man-made laws.
Now consider God-made laws as promulgated by religions, bolstered with bribes of eternal pleasures and threats of eternal torments . Among the religiously affiliated, Christians had the highest total numbers worldwide at more than 2.54 billion in 2021, followed by Muslims (more than 1.92 billion) and Hindus (more than 1.07 billion). If Christianity is truly the "one true faith," then 5.33 billion people have used their "free will" to pick the wrong religion. That means that more than 2/3's of the world's population - all of whom were created by a God who knew full well they would all, thanks to their cultures and imperfections, pick religions that would hurt and anger God for all eternity - have failed to obey God's chosen religion, even though God injected the vaccine of the "one true faith" into human history 2000 years ago in the form of a bloody cross. Anyone else who had a plan that was this poorly executed, and took this long to take effect, would be fired as a fraud. But not to the "true believer." Never.
Then there is the trouble of breaking down Christianity into its various parts. Christians do not all believe that they are all following the correct Christianity. Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity with 1.345 billion, and the Catholic Church is the largest among all Christian churches. Those identifying as Catholic fall into one of two Catholicisms: the Latin and the Eastern Orthodox.
The two different brands of Catholicism came into being in 1054. Known as the East–West Schism (also known as the Great Schism or Schism of 1054), the ongoing break of communion between the Latin Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches results in 1.327 (237?) billion being Roman Catholic and 18 million being Eastern Orthodox.
In 1517, Martin Luther, complaining about the decadent opulence that Rome was enjoying through its unfettered sale of indulgences, along with its habit of having sex with young boys, accidentally started the Protestant Reformation. Today, there are roughly 900 million to 1 billion Protestant Christians.
What all of this means is this: if the Roman Catholics are correct in their claim that they and they alone are the "one true faith," than (7.87 billion - 1.327 billion) God's plan to "save" humanity from the eternal prison of hell has resulted in 6.543 billion members of the human race headed to straight to hell. If any of the other Christian denominations are correct, the number of people on their way to hell for failing to use their "free will" to see that Christianity is the answer, is even higher.
So why would God make human beings so capable of staying out of jail by obeying man-made laws that govern a given society but so horrible at obeying, or even agreeing on, the God given laws that are intended to govern the soul to keep us all our of pure hell?
The rejoinder to this question offered by "believers" is that man has free will. But here is the problem with this reply - it only proves that God is incompetent. Here's why.
Consider the prison population around the world. World Prison Population List, published in December 2021, reports that there may well be in excess of 11.5 million prisoners worldwide. In 2021, there were 7.87 billion people in the world overall. 11.5 million is 0.146125% of 7.87 billion. Hence, more than 99.8% of people of all different religions manage to use their free will to avoid the "hell" of prison. That's an impressive number of people using their "free will" to obey man-made laws.
Now consider God-made laws as promulgated by religions, bolstered with bribes of eternal pleasures and threats of eternal torments . Among the religiously affiliated, Christians had the highest total numbers worldwide at more than 2.54 billion in 2021, followed by Muslims (more than 1.92 billion) and Hindus (more than 1.07 billion). If Christianity is truly the "one true faith," then 5.33 billion people have used their "free will" to pick the wrong religion. That means that more than 2/3's of the world's population - all of whom were created by a God who knew full well they would all, thanks to their cultures and imperfections, pick religions that would hurt and anger God for all eternity - have failed to obey God's chosen religion, even though God injected the vaccine of the "one true faith" into human history 2000 years ago in the form of a bloody cross. Anyone else who had a plan that was this poorly executed, and took this long to take effect, would be fired as a fraud. But not to the "true believer." Never.
Then there is the trouble of breaking down Christianity into its various parts. Christians do not all believe that they are all following the correct Christianity. Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity with 1.345 billion, and the Catholic Church is the largest among all Christian churches. Those identifying as Catholic fall into one of two Catholicisms: the Latin and the Eastern Orthodox.
The two different brands of Catholicism came into being in 1054. Known as the East–West Schism (also known as the Great Schism or Schism of 1054), the ongoing break of communion between the Latin Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches results in 1.327 (237?) billion being Roman Catholic and 18 million being Eastern Orthodox.
In 1517, Martin Luther, complaining about the decadent opulence that Rome was enjoying through its unfettered sale of indulgences, along with its habit of having sex with young boys, accidentally started the Protestant Reformation. Today, there are roughly 900 million to 1 billion Protestant Christians.
What all of this means is this: if the Roman Catholics are correct in their claim that they and they alone are the "one true faith," than (7.87 billion - 1.327 billion) God's plan to "save" humanity from the eternal prison of hell has resulted in 6.543 billion members of the human race headed to straight to hell. If any of the other Christian denominations are correct, the number of people on their way to hell for failing to use their "free will" to see that Christianity is the answer, is even higher.
So why would God make human beings so capable of staying out of jail by obeying man-made laws that govern a given society but so horrible at obeying, or even agreeing on, the God given laws that are intended to govern the soul to keep us all our of pure hell?
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