It's interesting how there are so many interpretations that lead to debates, even amongst scholars, and that religious apologists claim others don't fully grasp/understand the times these scriptures came about. Surely a God would continue with the times and constantly choose prophets and spit out scriptures left and right to keep up with the times. Or just reveal him/her/itself, what an idea. A divine work today would not condone slavery but slavery was accepted back then so scriptures written by man allowed it. I mean why state this imaginary God denounces slavery (and women as personal property) when slaves were used for labor even though a loving God would not condone such atrocious acts by humans.
Supposedly God hates homosexuals yet there's nothing about it in scriptures, save a verse or two that are debated to this day as to the actual meaning. Why if God hates homosexual so much did he not make it a commandment or mention it multiple times in scripture? Perhaps he was too busy allowing multiple wives, destroying tribes, making miracles, spilling seed, and taking vengeance that he didn't realize there were gay people.
Then we have religious segments arguing which tribe God chose. It's quite funny that Islam claims God (or Allah) chose them, and Christians claim God chose the Jews, and Mormons this and that, and Catholics that or this, and on and on and on. Why no universal God ensuring all mankind were united as his creation? Probably because God does not exist and each tribe created their own work to unite their own people, as they warred and hated other tribes. How dare a tribe give any sort of credit or humanity to other tribes.
A truly divine work would inspire and bring all together, a God that is so vain and arrogant would ensure this, unless God really hated some of his creations ("feck those Jews/Muslims/Egyptians/etc"). Instead, we're left to guess which tribe God chose, and to decipher these texts that are so vague yet clearly written in regard to that era. Hmm... the last bit, combined with all the factual errors and blatant theft of ancient myths and tales, seems clearly a work of man. Written in man's understanding of the times. A truly divine work would be so incomprehensible that even today it would make no sense. Ah, that's where prophets come into play to "deliver" God's message, yawn. God can cause miracles, destroy tribes, alter seas, cause rains, yet he couldn't magically create a book so he required man to assist. That's just bullshit right there. A work by a God would have been written by a being with an unmeasurable IQ - not dumbed down to the common man of ancient times, the common man that believed in dragons and unicorns, and had no clue how the universe worked or came to be.
One can state sin as a root cause but God created the snake, if you choose to believe in such nonsense to begin with. A talking snake tempted a woman to eat fruit, fruit that God created and yet forbid, what a loving God, such the prankster. That's so obviously a metaphoric wise tale, and stolen from ancient culture to boot, with bogus names as well. Man had no idea how things came to be so they created God, well after eliminating all the multiple Gods before God.
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Let's borrow another tale, the coming of the Son of God. Then he's crucified. Yawn. How many crucified saviors have "existed?" Sixteen. All before Jesus, granted some religions argue against Jesus as a savior, probably because they didn't create his story first. Ugh.
