HE CREATES EVIL: "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things" (Isa. 45:7). "Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come?" (Lam. 3:38). "...that I may repent of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings" (Jer. 26:3). "...all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin" (Jer. 36:3). "I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live. And I polluted them in their own gifts...." (Ezek. 20:25-26). "For thus saith the Lord; as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them" (Jer. 32:42). "...shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" (Amos 3:6). See also: Jer. 11:11, 14:16, 18:11, 19:3, 19:15, 23:12, 26:13, 26:19, 35:17, 36:31, 40:2, 42:10, 42:17, 44:2, 45:5, 49:37, 51:64, Ezek. 6:10, Micah 2:3, 1 Kings 21:29, 2 Chron. 34:24, and 2 Chron. 34:28
EVIL
COMES FROM THE LORD:
"it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David
took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well,
and the evil spirit departed from him" (1 Sam. 16:23). "It came to
pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul...." (1
Sam. 18:10). "The evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul...." (1
Sam. 19:9). "Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit
from God troubles thee" (1 Sam. 16:15). "The spirit of the Lord
departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubles him" (1 Sam.
16:14). "...evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem"
(Micah 1:12). "Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will raise up evil against
thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and
give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of
this sun. For thou did it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel,
and before the sun" (2 Sam. 12:11-12). "God sent an evil spirit
between Abimelech and the men of Shechem...." (Judges 9:23). See also: 1
Kings 14:10, 2 Kings 21:12, and Isa. 31:2.
HE
DECEIVES:
"O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived...." (Jer. 20:7).
"If the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have
deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will
destroy him from the midst of my people Israel" (Ezek. 14:9). "Ah,
Lord God! Surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying,
Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches unto the soul" (Jer. 4:10).
"...God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is
false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had
pleasure in unrighteousness" (2 Thess. 2:9-12). See also: 2 Chron.
18:18-22, 1 Kings 22:20-23 and Jer. 15:18.
HE
TELLS PEOPLE TO LIE:
"...and thou (Moses) shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the
king of Egypt, and you shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met
with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days journey into the
wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God" (Ex. 3:18) and
"afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the
wilderness." God is telling Moses to lie because the real reason is to
escape.
"Samuel
said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take a
heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord" (1 Sam.
16:2). The Lord told Samuel to lie also, since he is actually going out to meet
a son of Jesse to anoint him king. Yet, we are told in Prov. 12:22 that,
"Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord."
HE
LIES:
Joshua 7:1 says, "The people of Israel broke faith in regard to the
devoted things; for Achan...took some of the devoted things; and the anger of
the Lord burned against the people of Israel" and God responds by saying
in the 11th verse, "Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my
covenant...." Yet, God did not tell the truth. Only Achan sinned, not all
Israel, and Achan admits as much in the 20th verse by saying, "Indeed I
have sinned against the Lord God of Israel...."
"He
(David) shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his
kingdom forever" (2 Sam. 7:13) and to David God says, "thine house
and thy kingdom shall be established forever: thy throne shall be established
for ever" (2 Sam. 7:16). God's prophecy failed. He didn't tell the truth.
The Davidic line ended with Zedekiah and there was no Davidic king for 450
years when the Maccabeans established a dynasty, the first king being
Aristobulus. Since the end of the Maccabean dynasty there has never been a king
of the Jews. Second Kings 24:14 proves as much by saying, "He carried away
all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten
thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained, save the
poorest sort of the people of the land."
If
viewed together the following verses also show God engaged in prevarication.
"...of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of
it: for in the day that thou eat thereof thou shalt surely die" (Gen.
2:17), "God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it,
lest ye die" (Gen. 3:3), "the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall
not surely die" (Gen. 3:4), and "all the days that Adam lived were
930 years and he died" (Gen. 5:5). God said Adam and Eve would die on the
day they ate of the tree and the devil said they would not. They ate of it and
Adam lived to be 930 years old. In other words, God lied and the devil told the
truth. Yet, according to Titus 1:2 "God never lies."
And
finally, in Gen. 3:14 God said to the serpent, "...upon thy belly shalt
thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...." Serpents do
not now and never have eaten dust. If the serpent represents the Devil, he does
not eat dust either; so, in either case God did not tell the truth.
HE
REWARDS LIARS:
Ex. 1:15-20 says, "The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose
names were Shiphrah and Puah, 'When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and
observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a
girl, let her live.’ The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the
king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. Then the king of
Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, 'Why have you done this? Why have
you let the boys live?’ The midwives answered Pharaoh, 'Hebrew women are not
like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives
arrive.’ So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became
even more numerous." The midwives lied and God rewarded them by being kind
to them.
Joshua
2:3-6 says, "So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab, 'Bring out
the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come to spy
out the whole land.' But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She
said, 'Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they had come from. At
dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, the men left. I don't know which
way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them." (But
she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she
had laid out on the roof.) Rahab lied about where the men were and yet James
2:25 says, "...was not Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what
she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different
direction?"
And
2 Kings 10:18-21 says, "Jehu brought all the people together and said to
them, 'Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much. Now summon all the
prophets of Baal, all his ministers and all his priests. See that no one is
missing, because I am going to hold a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who
fails to come will no longer live. But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to
destroy the ministers of Baal.... all the ministers of Baal came; not one stayed
away. They crowded into the temple of Baal until it was full from one end to
the other." And as verses 25 to 30 show Jehu ordered his guards to go in
and kill all those who worshipped Baal. After the bloodshed and killing had
concluded the Lord said to Jehu in verse 30, "Because you have done well
in accomplishing what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab
all I had in mind to do, your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to
the 4th generation." How is that for a God of mercy
HE
ORDERS MEN TO BECOME DRUNKEN: "Then tell them, 'This is what
the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk and vomit, and
fall to rise no more because of the sword I will send among you" (Jer.
25:27).
HE
REWARDS THE FOOL AND THE TRANSGRESSOR: "The great God that formed all
things both rewards the fool, and rewards the transgressors" (Prov.
26:10).
HE
DELIVERS A MAN (JOB) INTO SATAN'S HANDS: "The Lord said unto Satan,
Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life" (Job 2:6).
HE
MINGLES A PERVERSE SPIRIT: "The Lord has mingled a perverse spirit in
the midst thereof; and they have caused Egypt to err in every work
thereof..." (Isa. 19:14).
HE
IS NOT OMNIPOTENT OR ALL POWERFUL: "the Lord was with Judah; And he
drove out the inhabitants of the mountains; but could not drive out the
inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron" (Judges
1:19).
HE
CAUSES INDECENCY:
God orders that the king of Assyria is to "lead away the Egyptian
prisoners, and the Ethiopian captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even
with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt" (Isaiah 20:4).
HE
SPREADS DUNG ON FACES:
"Behold I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even
the dung of your solemn feasts...." (Mal. 2:3).
HE
ORDERS STEALING:
"...and ye shall spoil the Egyptians" (Ex. 3:22). "...and they
shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the
Lord God" (Ezek. 39:10). "As for the women, the children, the
livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for
yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your
enemies" (Deut. 20:14).
HE
MADE FALSE AND UNFULFILLED PROPHECIES: In Jonah 3:4 God said, "yet 40
days and Nineveh shall be overthrown." But the 10th verse says, "God
saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God repented of the
evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not." In
other words, He who knows the future changed his mind, repented, and Nineveh was
not overthrown. His prophecy failed.
In
Gen. 15:13 God said to Abraham, "Know for certain that your descendants
will be strangers in a country not their own, and they shall be enslaved and
mistreated 400 years." Acts 7:6 says the same. But Ex. 12:40 says,
"Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was 430
years." God's prophecy failed by 30 years.
Another
deific prophecy is found in Gen. 15:16 which says, "...in the 4th
generation they (Abraham's descendants) shall come here again...." God
told Abraham that his descendants would return in the 4th generation. Yet, if
Abraham is included, it actually occurred during the 6th generation. The
generations were: Abraham, Isaac, Levi (Ex. 1:2), Kohath (Ex. 6:16), Amram (Ex.
6:18), and Moses (Ex. 6:20).
In
Gen. 17:3, 8 and Ex. 32:13 God told Abraham that he would give to him and his
descendants all of Canaan for an eternal possession. But Acts 7:5 says,
"He gave him (Abraham) no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But
God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land,
even though at that time Abraham had no child" and Heb. 11:13 says,
"All these people...did not receive the things promised; they only saw
them and welcomed them from a distance." The Bible itself admits that
God's promise to Abraham failed.
In
Gen. 35:10 God said to Jacob, "thy name shall not be called any more
Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel." Yet,
11 chapters later Gen. 46:2 says, "God spoke to Israel in the visions of
the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I."
Lastly,
1 Sam. 23:12 says, "David asked, 'Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me
and my men to Saul?’ And the Lord said, 'They will'." This prophecy never
occurred, because the opposite happened. Saul was delivered into David's hands,
not once but twice.
HE
CHANGES HIS MIND:
"The Lord said: I have forgiven them at your request...." (Num.
14:20). "God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and
God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he
did it not" (Jonah 3:10). "God said to Balaam, 'Do not go with them.
You must not put a curse on those people, because they are blessed.’ .... That
night God came to Balaam and said, 'Since these men have come to summon you, go
with them, but do only what I tell you.’ Balaam got up in the morning, saddled
his donkey and went with the princes of Moab. But God was very angry when he
went, and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to oppose him...." (Num.
22:20-22). God told Balaam not to go, then changed his mind and told him to go
and punished him when he did. Talk about indecision!
Finally,
in 2 Kings 20:1 Isaiah came to the sick Hezekiah and told him he would die and
not recover according to God's word. But according to the 4th and 5th verses
God told Isaiah to go back and tell Hezekiah that because God had heard his
prayer and seen his tears he would be healed and live 15 more years. Again, God
changed his mind.
HE
CAUSES ADULTERY:
"This is what the Lord says: 'Out of your own household I am going to
bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give
them to one who is close to you, and he will lie with your wives in broad
daylight. You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight
before all Israel" (2 Sam. 12:11-12).
HE
ORDERS THE TAKING OF A HARLOT: "...the Lord said to Hosea, Go,
takeunto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath
committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord" (Hosea 1:2).
HE
ORDERS A MAN TO PURCHASE HIS WIFE: "The Lord said to me, 'Go show
your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an
adultress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other
gods.... So I brought her for 15 shekels of silver and about a homer and a half
of barley. Then I told her, 'You are to live with me many days...." (Hosea
3:1-3).
HE
KILLS REPEATEDLY:
"there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the 250 men that
offered incense" (Num. 16:35). "The Lord sent fiery serpents among
the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died" (Num.
21:6). "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I
kill, and I make alive; I wound and I heal...." (Deut. 32:39). "The
Lord smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the
Lord, even he smote of the people 50,070 men: and the people lamented, because
the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter" (1 Sam.
6:19). "The Lord kills, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and
brings up" (1 Sam. 2:6). "The hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of
Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them...." (1 Sam. 5:6). "it
came to pass about 10 days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died"
(1 Sam. 25:38). "Who smote great nations and slew mighty kings...."
(Psalms 135:10). "For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with
all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many" (Isaiah 66:16).
"I will dash them one against another, even the father and the sons together,
saith the Lord: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy
them" (Jer. 13:14). "I have sent among you the pestilence after the
manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword...." (Amos
4:10). "For our God is a consuming fire" (Heb. 12:29). Also note:
Gen. 38:7,10, Ex. 22:23-24, Num. 11:1, Deut. 32:41-42, Joshua 10:10-11, 1 Sam.
5:9, Psalms 136:17-18, Hosea 9:16, Amos 2:3, Ex. 4:24, 2 Sam. 6:6-7, and 2
Kings 5:7.
HE
ORDERS KILLING:
"ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put 10,000 to
flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword" (Lev.
26:7-8). "the Lord said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and
hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord
may be turned away from Israel. And Moses said to the judges of Israel. Slay
every one his men that were joined to Baal" (Num. 25:4-5). "Vex the
Midianites and smite them" (Num. 25:17). "But of the cities of these
people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt
save alive nothing that breathes. But thou shalt utterly destroy them...as the
Lord thy God has commanded thee" (Deut. 20:16-17). "So Joshua smote
all the country of the hills...he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed
all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded" (Joshua 10:40).
"As I listened, god said to the others, 'Follow him through the city and
kill, without showing pity or compassion. Slaughter old men, young men and
maidens, women and children...." (Ezek. 9:5-6). "And the Lord sent
you on a mission, saying 'Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the
Amalekites; make war on them until you have wiped them out.'" (1 Sam.
15:18). "Attack the land of Merathaim and those who live in Pekod. Pursue,
kill and completely destroy them' declares the Lord. Do everything I have
commanded you" (Jer. 50:21). "Now go, attack the Amalekites and
totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to
death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and
donkeys" (1 Sam. 15:3). Also note: Ex. 32:27-28, Num. 21:34-35, 31:7-8,
35:19-21, and Jer. 48:10.
HE
LOSES HIS TEMPER.
Even though Job 5:2 says, "For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays
the silly one" God often loses his composure. The following are good
examples: "...the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger...."
(Deut. 13:17). "The anger of the Lord was hot against Israel and he sold
them into the hand of Mesopotamia's king...." (Judges 3:8). "...the
Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them"
(Psalm 21:9). "Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against
Israel...." (2 Sam. 24:1). "...he made Israel to sin, to provoke the
Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities" (1 Kings 16:26).
"...the Lord revenges, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his
adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies" (Nahum 1:2). "The
anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel...." (2 Kings 13:3).
"The anger of the Lord was hot against Israel" (Judges 2:20). See
also: Ex. 32:10, Num. 11:1, 16:46, 32:13-14, 1 Kings 14:9, 15:30, 16:2, 16:7,
16:13, 2 Chron. 34:25, Psalm 18:7, and Jer. 44:6.
HE
IS OFTEN JEALOUS.
"...I the Lord thy God am a jealous God...." (Deut. 5:9, Ex. 20:5).
"For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you...." (Deut. 6:15).
"How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy
burn like fire?" (Psalm 79:5). "For in my jealousy and in the fire of
my wrath have I spoken...." (Ezek. 38:19). "God is jealous, and the
Lord revenges...." (Nahum 1:2). "Thus says the Lord of hosts; I was
jealous of Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great
fury" (Zech. 8:2). See also: Ex. 34:14, Deut. 4:24, 29:20, Psalms 78:58,
Ezek. 16:38, 36:5-6 and Joshua 24:19.
HE
IS NOT EVERYWHERE or OMNIPRESENT. Even though Jer. 23:24 ("Can any
hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not
I fill heaven and earth?") and Psalm 139:7-12 say the Lord is everywhere,
the following verses say he is not: "Cain went out from the presence of
the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden" (Gen. 4:16).
"The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men
built" (Gen. 11:5). "He said to Balak, Stand here by thy burnt
offering, while I meet the LORD yonder" (Num. 23:15). "...the Lord
was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in
the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the
fire...." (1 Kings 19:11-12). "I, the Lord, will go down and see if
what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will
know" (Gen. 18:21). "So Satan went forth from the presence of the
Lord" (Job 1:12 and 2:7), and "Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from
the presence of the Lord...." (Jonah 1:3). Also note: Gen. 17:22, 18:33,
Ex 11:4, 20:24, 25:8, Deut.33:2, Psalm 9:11, 10:1, 14:2, Jer. 23:39, Hosea
11:9, Joel 3:17, Hab. 3:3.
HE
DOESN'T KNOW ALL. Even though Prov. 15:3 ("The eyes of the Lord
are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good") says god sees
everything that goes on, the following verses deny his omniscience: "the
Lord God called to Adam, and said to him, Where art thou?" (Gen. 3:9).
"The Lord said to Cain, 'Why are you angry? Why is your face
downcast?" (Gen. 4:6). "The Lord said to Cain, Where is Abel thy
brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?" (Gen. 4:9).
"Then the Lord said,...I will go down and see if what they have done is as
bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know" (Gen.
18:20-21). "Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the
desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was
in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands" (Deut. 8:2).
"You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord
your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart
and with all your soul" (Deut. 13:3). "The Lord looked down from
heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand,
and seek God" (Psalm 14:2). "This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
Have you come to inquire of me? As surely as I live, I will not let you inquire
of me, declares the Sovereign Lord" (Ezek. 20:3). Also note: Gen. 22:12,
Num. 22:9, 2 Chron. 32:31, Hosea 8:4, Amos 9:3, and Jer. 32:35. Yet, God does
know all according to Prov. 15:3 which says, "The eyes of the Lord are in
every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good."
HE
REPENTS.
Even though 1 Sam. 15:29 ("the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent:
for he is not a man, that he should repent") says that god never repents,
the following verses say the opposite: It repented the Lord that he had made
man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart" (Gen. 6:6).
"...the Lord repented of the evil which he though to do unto his
people" (Ex. 32:14). "...the Lord repented that he had made Saul king
over Israel" (1 Sam. 15:35). "The Lord said, It repenteth me that I
have set up Saul to be king...." (1 Sam. 15:11). "...that I the Lord
God may repent of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil
of their doings" (Jer. 26:3). "If that nation, against whom I have
pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to
do to them" (Jer. 18:8), and "...for I repent of the evil that I have
done to you" (Jer. 42:10). Also see: Deut. 32:36, Judges 2:18, 2 Sam.
24:16, 1 Chron. 21:15, Psalm 106:45, Jer. 15:6, 18:10, 26:13, 26:19, Amos 7:3,
7:6, Jonah 3:9-10, Joel 2:13, and Hosea 11:8.
HE
PRACTICES INJUSTICE. Even
though Deut. 32:4 ("He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways
are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he")
says God is just and fair, the following verses prove the opposite. "Then
say to the Pharaoh, This is what the Lord says,: Israel is my firstborn son,
and I told you, 'Let my son go, so he may worship me,' But you refused to let
him go; so I will kill your firstborn son'" (Ex. 4:22-23). "The Lord
is longsuffering, and of great mercy...visiting the iniquity of the fathers on
the children unto the 3rd and 4th generation" (Num. 14:18). "A
bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to the 10th
generation shall he not enter...." (Deut. 23:2). "Thy son and thy
daughters shall be given unto another people...." (Deut. 28:32).
"When Achan son of Zerah acted unfaithfully regarding the devoted things,
did not wrath come upon the whole community of Israel? He was not the only one
who died for his sin" (Joshua 22:20). "Because by doing this you have
made the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt, the son born to you will
die" (2 Sam. 12:14). "During the reign of David, there was a famine
for 3 successive years; so David sought the face of the Lord. The Lord said,
'It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the
Gibeonites to death'" (2 Sam. 21:1). "If the prophet be deceived when
he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will
stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people
Israel" (Ezek. 14:9). "Therefore, just as sin entered the world
through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men,
because all sinned...." (Rom. 5:12). "Nevertheless, death reigned
from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by
breaking a command, as did Adam...."(Rom. 5:14). For additional examples
of divine injustice in action see: Gen. 9:25, 12:17, 20:6-7, Ex. 12:12, 12:29,
21:29, Lev. 5:17, 12:2,5, 15:19, 19:20-22, 21:14, Num. 5:27, 20:7-8, 11, 23-24,
28, 21:4-6, 35:15-18, 35:25, Deut. 19:11-12, 21:18-21, 25:11, 28:53-55, 59,
32:25, Joshua 7:11, 1 Sam. 2:33, 6:19, 2 Sam. 6:6-7, 24:15-17, 1 Kings
11:11-12, 13:17-19, 24, 14:15-17, 16:34, 20:35-36, 20:28, 34, 41-42, 21:21,
21:29, 2 Kings 21:16, 17:21, 1 Chron. 21:1, 7, Ezek. 21:3, Matt. 13:12, and
Rom. 9:13-16, 18-20.
HE
PLAYS FAVORITES.
We are told in Deut. 10:17 and 16:19 that "the Lord your God is God of
Gods...which regards not persons" and we are told in 2 Chron. 19:7 that,
"...there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons,
nor taking of gifts." Yet, that is clearly disproven by the following
comments: "For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy
God has chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that
are upon the face of the earth" (Deut. 7:6, 14:2). "The Lord will not
forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it has pleased the Lord
to make you his people" (1 Sam. 12:22). "For thy people Israel didst
thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Lord, became their God" (1
Chron. 17:22). "Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee
away" (Isaiah 41:9). "My people shall know my name...." (Isa.
52:6). "I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an
inheritor of my mountains; and mine elect shall inherit it...." (Isa.
65:9). "You only have I known of all the families of the earth...." (Amos
3:2). "But Jesus answered and said, 'I am not sent but unto the lost sheep
of the house of Israel" (Matt. 15:24). "...for salvation is of the
Jews" (John 4:22). Favoritism is also evident in Gen. 4:4-5, 12:1-3,
13:14-15, 35:12, Ex. 2:25, 11:7, 19:5-6, Lev. 26:3-12, Deut. 4:40, 7:14,
28:1-13, Joshua 24:13, 1 Kings 3:12, 8:53, 2 Kings 13:22-23, 2 Chron. 1:1, 12,
Psalm 138:6, Isa. 43:1, 5, 45:4, 51:2, 16, 63:8, Haggai 2:23, Mal. 1:2-3, Matt.
10:5-6, Luke 1:13, 6:20, Acts 10:40-41, 13:19, 16:6-7, Rom. 1:16, 2:9-10,
9:4-5, 9:13, 11:5, 7, and 1 Peter 2:9.
HE
SANCTIONS SLAVERY in
direct contradiction to 2 Cor. 3:17, which says, "Where the spirit of the
Lord is there is liberty." Key statements in this regard are the
following: "Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear
unto the door, and he shall be thy servant (Read slave) forever. And also unto
thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise" (Deut. 15:17). "Bid slaves to
be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they
are not to be refractory, nor to pilfer, but to show entire and true fidelity,
so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God" (Titus 2:9).
"Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with
sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win
their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will
of God from your heart. Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord,
not men, because you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good
he does, whether he is slave or free" (Eph. 6:5-7). "Slaves, submit
yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and
considerate, but also to those who are harsh. For it is commendable if a man
bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. But
how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure
it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable
before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving
you an example, that you should follow in his steps" (1 Peter 2:18-21).
"Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when
their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and
reverence of the Lord. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as
working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an
inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are
serving" (Col. 3:22-24). "All who are under the yoke of slavery
should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God's name and
our teaching may not be slandered. Those who have believing masters are not to
show less respect for them because they are brothers. Instead, they are to serve
them even better, because those who benefit from their service are believers,
and dear to them. These are the things you are to teach and urge on them"
(1 Tim. 6:1-2).
HE
DEGRADES DEFORMED PEOPLE: In Lev. 21:16-23 God said to Moses, "Say to
Aaron: 'For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect
may come near to offer the food of his God. No man who has any defect may come
near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; no man with a
crippled foot or hand, or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or who has any eye
defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. No
descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present
the offerings made to the Lord by fire. He has a defect.... because of this
defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate
my sanctuary...." (Lev. 21:16:23).
HE
PUNISHES BASTARDS FOR BEING ILLEGITIMATE: Deut. 23:2 says, "A bastard
shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation
shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord."
HE
PUNISHES MANY FOR THE ACTS OF ONE: "...for the Lord had closed up
every womb in Abimelech's household because of Abraham's wife Sarah" (Gen.
20:18). "When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he
said to the Lord, 'I am the one who has sinned and done wrong. These are but
sheep. What have they done? Let your hand fall upon me and my family" (2
Sam. 24:17). "To the woman he said, 'I will greatly increase your pains in
childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children" (Gen. 3:16). Also
note Joshua 7:24-26.
HE
PUNISHES CHILDREN FOR THEIR FATHERS' SINS: "...visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and
to the fourth generation" (Ex. 34:7). "...for I the Lord thy God am a
jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the
3rd and 4th generation of them that hate me...." (Ex. 20:5, Deut. 5:9).
"It came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the
firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of
cattle" (Ex. 12:29). See also: Deut. 23:2, Num. 14:33, Gen. 17:14, and
Gen. 9:22-25.
HE
PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM HEARING HIS WORDS: "Make the heart of this people
calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see
with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn
and be healed" (Isa. 6:10). "So you see God is kind to some just
because he wants to be, and he makes some refuse to listen" (Rom. 9:18).
"This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the
prophecy of Isaiah: You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will
be ever seeing but never perceiving" (Matt. 13:13-14). See also: John
12:39-40, Mark 4:10-12, and Luke 8:9-10.
HE
SUPPORTS HUMAN SACRIFICE: Ex. 22:29-30 says, "Do not hold back
offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of
your sons. Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with
their mothers for 7 days, but give them to me on the 8th day." And Lev.
27:28-29 says, "Nothing that a man owns and devotes to the Lord--whether
man or animal or family land--may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is
most holy to the Lord. No person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; he
must be put to death." He also permitted human sacrifice according to
Ezek. 20:26, which says, "I let them become defiled through their
gifts--the sacrifice of every firstborn--that I might fill them with horror so
they would know that I am the Lord."
HE
ORDERS CANNIBALISM:
Lev. 26:29 says, "Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of
your daughter shall ye eat." Jer. 19:9 says, "I will make them eat
the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh
during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies who seek their
lives." Ezek. 5:10 says, "In your midst fathers will eat their
children, and children will eat their fathers. I will inflict punishment on you
and will scatter all your survivors to the winds." Isaiah 49:26 says,
"I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on
their own blood, as with wine...."And in John 6:53-54 Jesus says, "I
tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his
blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has
eternal life...."
HE
DEMANDED 16,000 VIRGINS BE GIVEN TO SOLDIERS AS WAR PLUNDER AND 32 BE SET ASIDE
FOR HIMSELF:
Num. 31:31-40 says, "Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord
commanded Moses. The plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took
was 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys and 32,000 women who had never
slept with a man.... And the half, the portion of those who had gone out to
war, was.... 16,000 people, of which the tribute for the Lord was 32." Women
rank right up there with cattle, donkeys, and sheep. And they have to be
virgins, at that! Imagine a righteous and perfect God wanting 32 virgins to be
set aside for himself!
HE
ORDERS GAMBLING:
Joshua 14:2 says, "Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the
nine-and-a-half tribes, as the Lord had commanded through Moses." Num.
26:52-56 says, "The Lord said to Moses, The land is to be allotted to them
as an inheritance based on the number of names.... Be sure that the land is
distributed by lot.... Each inheritance is to be distributed by lot among the
larger and smaller groups."
HE
REQUIRES AN UNBETROTHED VIRGIN TO MARRY HER SEDUCER: Ex. 22:16 says,
"If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps
with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife."
HE
ORDERS HORSES TO BE HAMSTRUNG: Joshua 11:6 says, "The Lord said
to Joshua,...You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots."
HE
SANCTIONS THE DEGRADATION OF THE ENEMIES' WOMEN: Deut. 21:10-13 says,
"When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord you God delivers
them into your hands and you take captives, if you notice among the captives a
beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife....
After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full
month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your
wife."
HE
SANCTIONS THE BEATING OF SLAVES AS LONG AS THE SLAVE CAN ARISE AT LEAST A DAY
OR TWO AFTER THE BEATING: Ex. 21:20-21 says, "If a man beats his male
or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be
punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two,
since the slave is his property."
HE
REQUIRES A WOMAN TO MARRY HER RAPIST: Deut. 22:28-29 says, "If a man
happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and
they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He
must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long
as he lives."
HE
TRAINS OTHERS FOR WAR:
Psalm 144:1 says, "Praise be to the Lord, my Rock, who trains my hands for
war, my fingers for battle."
HE
ORDERED THE COOKING OF FOOD WITH HUMAN FECES: Ezek. 4:12 says, "Eat the food as
you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human
excrement as fuel."
HE
KILLED THE WICKED AND THE RIGHTEOUS: Ezek. 21:3-4 says, "...This is
what the Lord says: I am against you. I will draw my sword from its scabbard
and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. Because I am going to
cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword will be unsheathed against
everyone from south to north."
HE
INTENTIONALLY GAVE OUT BAD LAWS: Ezek. 20:25 says, "I also gave
them over to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live
by...."
HE
EXCUSED THE SINS OF PROSTITUTES AND ADULTERERS: Hosea 4:14 says,
"I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your
daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because the men themselves consort
with harlots and sacrifice with temple prostitutes...."
HE
EXCUSED A MURDERER AND PROMISED HIM PROTECTION: After Cain killed
Abel he was banished from the Garden of Eden and the following dialogue occurred
within Gen. 4:13-15. "Cain said to the Lord, 'My punishment is more than I
can bear. Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from
your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me
will kill me.' But the Lord said to him, 'Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will
suffer vengeance seven times over.’ Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no
one who found him would kill him."
HE
KILLED A MAN WHO REFUSED TO IMPREGNATE HIS WIDOWED SISTER-IN-LAW: Gen. 38:8-10 says,
"Then Judah said to Onan, 'Lie with your brother's wife and fulfill your
duty to her as a brother-in-law to produce offspring for your brother.’ But
Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay with his
brother's wife, he spilled his seed on the ground to keep from producing
offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the Lord's sight; so he
put him to death also."
HE
AIDED RATHER THAN PUNISHED A SWINDLER: In Gen. 28:14-15 God promised Jacob
that his descendants would be like the dust of the earth and all the families
of the earth would be blessed by him and his descendants. God also said he
would watch over Jacob wherever he went and would not leave him. Yet, Jacob was
the swindler who stole the birthright of his brother, Esau.
HE
DOESN'T SEE ALL:
Gen. 4:14 says, "Today you (God) are driving me (Adam) from the land, and
I will be hidden from your presence."
HE
IS INDECISIVE:
In Gen. 18:17 the Lord says, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to
do?"
HE
DISCOVERS WOMEN'S SECRET PARTS: Isaiah 3:17 says, "the Lord will
smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord
will discover their secret parts."
HE
BREAKS UP FAMILIES:
Ex. 21:2-4 says, "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six
years. But in the 7th year, he shall go free.... If his master gives him a wife
and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to
her master, and only the man shall go free."
HE
ORDERS THE KILLING OF CHILDREN: Ezek. 9:6 says, "Slay utterly old
and young, both maids and little children, and women...." and 1 Sam. 15:3
says, "...slay both man and woman, infant and suckling...."
HE
KILLED OVER 50,000 PEOPLE BECAUSE A FEW LOOKED INTO AN ARK: 1 Sam. 6:19 says,
"the Lord smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the
Ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people 50,070: and the people lamented,
because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter."
HE
MANDATED UNLIMITED PUNISHMENT FOR LIMITED SINS: Matt. 25:46 says,
"these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into
life eternal." Also note Rev. 14:11 and Mark 9:43-48.
AND
LASTLY, HE VIOLATED HIS OWN LAWS ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS: (1) In Ex. 20:13 he
said thou shalt not kill; yet, in Deut. 32:39 and many other verses he said,
"I kill, and I make alive; I wound and I heal...." (2) John 4:8 and
4:16 say God is love and 1 Cor. 13:4 says love is not jealous or boastful. Yet,
Deut. 4:24 says God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. How can God be
jealous when several verses say God is love and 1 Cor. says love is not
jealous? (3) In the Ten Commandments God says thou shalt not commit adultery;
yet, Matt. 1:18 says, "This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about.
His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came
together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Ghost. Because Joseph
her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public
disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly." The Holy Ghost, who is
God, impregnated another being's wife. If that is not adultery, what is it? (4)
In Lev. 19:18 God says, "You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge
against the sons of your own people...." Yet, in Deut. 32:35 God says,
"To me belongs vengeance, and recompense." God rules out taking
vengeance by others, but relegates it to himself. (5) In Luke 6:27 God tells us
to love our enemies and do good to those who hate you. Yet, in Gen. 19:24 he
rained fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah because they had rejected
him. (6) Prov. 6:16 says, "there are 6 things the Lord hates, seven that
are detestable to him" and the 19th verse says one of these is, "...a
false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among
brothers." Yet, Gen. 11:9 says, "That is why it was called
Babel--because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world."
The Lord hates those who sow dissension even though he is responsible for all
the confusion that emerged from his creation of a multitude of languages. (7)
In Matt. 26:52 Jesus said, "Put up thy sword...for all they that take the
sword shall perish with the sword." Yet, in Ezek. 21:5 God says,
"Then all the people will know that I the Lord have drawn my sword from its
scabbard; it will not return again." If what Jesus said is true, why has
the Lord not perished? (8) Deut. 6:16 says, "Ye shall not tempt the Lord
your God," while Gen. 22:1 says, "it came to pass after these things,
that God did tempt Abraham...." God tells us not to tempt, but he does.
(9) In First John 2:15 we are told not to love the world, neither the things
that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is
not in him. Yet, John 3:16 says, "God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have
eternal life." We are not supposed to love the world, but God sure does.
(10) And finally, Job 5:2 says, "For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy
slays the silly one." Displaying wrath is to be considered anathema; yet
Psalm 21:9 ("...the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire
shall devour them"), Ex. 31:10 ("...let me alone that my wrath may
wax hot against them"), and Num. 16:46 ("...for there is wrath gone
out from the Lord") clearly show wrath is one of the Lord's more prominent
traits.
