Then you did get your picture of your god from the Bible? 
I notice you keep avoiding this question:
The Church came first (33AD). Scripture wasn’t canonized until the 4th century.
No, I don’t believe God would make a mistake. It’s illogical, because then he would be impefect, and therefore not God.
That is the traditional story, yes.
Then you agree that everything that happens is what your god wants to happen?
I guess it depends on what you mean by “want”. Does God actively desire humans to sin and die? No. Does God allow it? Yes.
I thought your god was all-powerful. How are things happening that he did not make happen? Didn’t he create everything that exists? Didn’t he create humans?
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why does God care if two men have sex?
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why did God create humans in such a way that they sometimes are attracted to members of their own sex?
If the baby drowned he didn’t save her, did he?
If no babies were drowned, I’d be impressed. And I specified babies as innocent beings, so you can’t say god got rid of the village pimp or something.
I know the standard excuse is that the babies - all of them - would grow up evil.
That’s disgusting and immoral.
Christianity is not fatalistic. An all-powerful being is not precluded from creating autonomous creatures with the freedom to make choices.
I would say that he cares what we do with our bodies since our bodies are his gift to us.
Why did he create humans in such a way that they are sexually attracted to anyone at all?
But he created us with the ability to make choices, and then punishes us when we make choices he doesn’t like? So we have free will, but we can’t exercise it freely? That’s sadistic, IMO.
Face it: your god is either responsible for the way everything is, or he is not all-powerful. Do you agree?
Are you speaking for all Christian sects, or just your own?
Back to not directly answering questions again?
I’m fine with not blaming god if the baby dies directly or indirectly due to actions of people, for instance in a car crash caused by a drunk driver. But if God designed our world he designed it with earthquakes and tidal waves. Is he incapable of designing a safer world? Or doesn’t he give a shit.
Given the lack of any clear evidence that god has ever intervened in our world, it sure looks like one without a god. So we have tragedies, but earthquakes have no morals. That’s a lot more supportable moral position than a god who lets these things happen. Or causes them.
I didn’t mean “why does he care what people do in general”, I meant specifically “why does he disapprove of gay sex?”
You’re the one who thinks he did, so you should answer that question. I think people evolved to be sexually attracted to other people because if they weren’t we would have died out by now.
But my point is, if God doesn’t want gay people to have gay sex, why did he make gay people gay in the first place?
Parents punish their children for making bad choices. Are parents sadistic?
Who says we can’t exercise it freely? That is exactly the purpose of the sacraments. They enable us to freely choose good.
I don’t have a problem crediting God with responsibility for the universe. I for one am glad he created it, even with all the terrible things that happen.
Ahh, touche. I guess there are Calvinist sects that tend to be more fatalistic. I’m speaking for what I know of Catholic teaching.
if you purposefully raised your kid to really like… let’s say cookies, but also told him that if he ever ate cookies you’d set him on fire for a billion years, you’d be a sadist, yes.
Parents don’t create their children’s ability make choices: your god did.
That’s coerced, not free.
Then you agree that all the terrible things that happen are your god’s fault?