God Is Imaginary - Proof 22

== "Proof" #22 - Count all the people God wants to murder ==
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This one almost makes me believe this is a satire site. It's so unbelievable that someone actually believes this, much less, would post it up for the world to see. I thought to post a short response, but I think instead I will do a thorough one to expose just how ludicrous this really is.
First of all, the title. "Count all the people God wants to murder." That number would be zero because God cannot murder. God is Creator and may take whatever life He chooses because it is a life He gave in the first place. Second, God's purpose is focused on things spiritual, not physical, so He is incapable of taking life unjustly.
Marshall Brain is showing a severe lack of understanding of the concept of murder and of the nature of God.
~~~~If you look in the Bible, there are an amazing number of people that God wants his followers to murder. For example, in Exodus 35:2 God lays down this commandment:
    
For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death. 
Think about that how many people work on the Sabbath -- all the employees of Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, Linnens & things, grocery stores, convenience stores, power plants, airlines, hospitals, emergency services and on and on and on. Don't rabbis, priests and preachers work on the Sabbath? God wants all of them dead.~~~~'''
No, Marshall, rabbis do not work on Saturday.
As to the rest, not only are they not amenable to the Old Testament now because the New Testament is the law in effect, they would not have been amenable to the Old Testament back then either. None of those jobs were around and in MB's limited perspective of things, these are all American (i.e. Gentile) folks anyway. Either way, except for the rabbis, this law would not apply.
However, if it did apply and someone broke a sabbath, its not murder to put them to death when the law calls for the death penalty and they are put to death. That's the nature of law and justice.
~~~~Then look at Deut 21:18-21. It says:
    
If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place. They shall say to the elders of his town, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel will hear, and be afraid. 
That is a whole lot of teenagers that we need to kill.~~~~'''
Except we are not under this law and as Gentiles never would have been.
Furthermore, its not murder. See above.
Same for the homosexuals and adulterers. It's not murder and we aren't under that law any more. His point is doubly incorrect.
~~~~In other words, if we actually listened to what God says, we would need to kill at least half of the people in America tomorrow. After all, Isaiah 40:8 says, "The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand for ever." The word of the Lord tells us to kill half of the U.S. population.~~~~
Even if we granted that the Old Testament was still in effect today (its not), it only applies to the Jewish state, not to Gentiles. So that half of America is not in danger of the death penalty. Spiritual death, absolutely, but that's more of a form of suicide anyway.
~~~~There are two things in this that show you that God is imaginary. First there is the utter stupidity of these verses.~~~~
Why are they stupid, MB? Is it because they don't match up to your arbitrary and self-centered standard? This isn't a 'proof' that God is imaginary. It's just proof that MB is a teenager in an adult body.
~~~~Second, there is this fact: If God is an all-powerful being, he would kill them himself. There would be no need for people to do the murdering. These people would already be dead, and Wal-Mart would be closed on the Sabbath through lack of employees.~~~~
This is actually a (half-way) serious point. First, God did kill people personally. There were more than a billion people it is calculated that died in the Flood. Far more than the Israelites ever took out by command. There were instances like Uzzah, Korah and his rebellion, the Egyptian first born, Sodom and Gomorrah, 185,000 Assyrians, and those are just the most well known.
Second, the reason God had the Jews do the killing (just as He has left it to the other Earthly governments today to enact justice, up to and including the death penalty) is that it teaches a number of lessons. The Israelites/Jews needed to learn what wickedness would lead them to -- destruction (see much of the rest of my wiki). They needed to understand God's justice first hand, the nature of death, and how wickedness affected not only the wicked adults, but the whole nation and the whole world. It was a lesson given many times, but one the Jews never learned and eventually suffered from themselves.
~~~~Notice that believers completely ignore these parts of the Bible. That is because they know that the verses are insane. Yet Christans also believe their God to be perfect, omniscient, all-loving and all-good. By acknowledging that their God is insane, they prove that their God is imaginary by contradiction with their opposite definition of God.~~~~
 Except we don't ignore them. We accept them and understand them. We believe in a God who is not only all-loving, merciful, and good, but also a God of justice, wrath, and vengeance. These are contradictory properties of God. They exist in perfect harmony within Him.
MB just doesn't even attempt to understand what those words even mean and so he is left to rant that God is a murderer.
In Truth and Love.