When biblicists tell you the bible is the word of a perfect god, ask them to read the following which was written for another but applies to them quite well.

Dear Biblicist:

         I read your message regarding God’s alleged goodness, mercy, and justice.  Unfortunately, the entire message is light years from the real god of the Bible.  Remember when I referred you to the comment by Jesus in which he said, “Why callest thou me good, there is none good but one, that is God.”  This comment not only proves Jesus is not God or God’s equivalent, proven by his own words no less, but proves he is not perfect, again by his own words.  Therefore he could not be god because god by definition is perfect.
         You should be glad he directly states he is not god because if he were, that would mean he is responsible for all of the following acts.  I would now like to give you a list of the deeds that God committed somewhere in the Bible and citations will accompany each so there can be no out-of-context defense.  Please keep in mind that these are the acts of a supposedly perfect being and please bear with me as the list is rather long to say the least.  I will send it in SIX separate parts because it so tremendous and horrendous.

Part 1

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--Ed.) 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--Ed.) 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!
 

Part 2

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--Ed.) 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, Issac, 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--Ed.) 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, take unto 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.
 

Part 3

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.
 

Part 4

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--Ed.) 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...."
 
 

Part 5

         
          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--Ed.) are driving me (Adam--Ed.)
          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?"
 
 

Part 6

          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.
 

CONCLUSION

          The obvious conclusion to be drawn from all of the above is that God strongly adheres to the maxim, "Do as I say, not as I do," which parents are often condemned for practicing.

            In sum and substance, the last six commentaries have proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the biblical God is one of the most reprehensible characters to have ever appeared in the annals of literature.

            One can readily understand why Robert Ingersoll said on page 237 in Volume 2 of his Works, "It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god."  Two pages later he said, "It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, ...."  And in *Some Mistakes of Moses* he said, "A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, a hypocrite, a tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous--such is the God of the Pentateuch."

            And finally, after reading the last six commentaries can you imagine anyone, any being, saying, "Yes, that's my book, that represents me, that's the way I am," especially a supposedly perfect being?  Is there any figure in history with a worse record, including Adolph Hitler and Ghenghis Khan?  The Devil comes out of the Bible looking much better than any alleged God.  You would almost think the book was written by the Devil about an alleged God.  Biblicists contend that atheists and those of a similar persuasion are gambling with their future and fate by not believing in a supreme being, when they are the ones engaged in a tremendous wager.  The Bible portrays God in a manner that can only be described as appalling.  And yet they are telling people it is His word.  One can only imagine the horrible fate that awaits them when God is finally given an opportunity to even the score for their blasphemous portrayal of His alleged words and deeds.