2ndAmendment said:
The Bible flys in the face of human understanding.
If it was written
by humans
for humans, what sense does it make that they wouldn't understand it? If God really wanted us to spread the Good News, He'd have made it easier for us to know what Good News we're actually spreading.
The one that always gets me is the story of David. How he sent Uriah to death in battle so Uriah wouldn't find out that David had impregnated his wife. Yet David was the exalted chosen patriarch and Uriah, the faithful and honorable warrior, merely died. Even poor Nathan, who confronted David with his hypocrisy, didn't get any glory - he's merely a historian and a Biblical footnote.
The good die and the wicked flourish, and this is according to God's plan? That stuff makes no sense to me from a spiritual standpoint and is just flat out wrong.
It sounds more like Bill Clinton, who lied, cheated and stole, yet is the exalted patriarch of the modern Democratic party, complete with the glory and revisionist history that comes with that honor, while good women and men were persecuted on his way up the ladder.
Do you believe that Bill Clinton is God's chosen son? And if not, why not? He parallels David.