Is God a perfect role model? Given the tales of murder, genocide, and other horrors attributed to God in the Bible, I would say no. If you ever met someone who acted in those ways, you would not praise him or want others to emulate him.
So you are saying that sometimes genocide is justified? When God purportedly killed every firstborn in Egypt, was every firstborn deserving of that execution? If you break God's laws, do your children deserve to be killed by animals, as God purportedly vowed to make happen? Did every human being who purportedly died in Noah's flood deserve to die? And you believe that this God is a good role model for police? Maybe you think that the KGB and the Gestapo were ideal police.
Except that they all did deserve to die. We all deserve to die myself included. Every single day we all earn God's judgement more and more. God has never been obligated to allow us to live. Until you read Gods word for what it is, and try to learn who God is, it will be easy to make the things that happen seem ridiculous, and make it seem like God would be a horrible role model. However, one you get to know God, you will understand him that much more. Ill go into the individual points if youd like, and if you will give references for them so I know exactly what you are talking about, however, I just want to make that point very clear as it covers the magority of the reasons people say God is a bad role model.
Sure he's never been obligated to let us live. He's also never been obligated to give a crap about us. He could have left us to destroy ourselves after he saw that we failed.
So you give the typical Christian response to the genocide thing, huh? Look, I've been raised a Christian, a son of a pastor, so I had what I would call a relationship with God. But recently, I've stopped looking at only the good things that he's done like so many Christians do and started looking at some of the not so good things. I certainly do not believe to die simply because of a few mistakes. ESPECIALLY when it was God who made us the way we did, knowing we would make those mistakes(that is of course if he can see all time or whatever). He could have made us in a way where we would not be tempted by sin, but he didn't. So us sinning isn't entirely our fault, I would say its our programming that made us sin, ergo: God's fault.
On to the examples given, I don't know exactly how those people were doing wrong but surely they did not need to die for it. God has created billions of people, you'd think if he already knew their actions that he would be just a little more lenient, right?
It's like doing a science experiment like...let's say you've got a masters degree in physics and you're throwing a ball up in the air to see if it would fly into space. Sure it would if you threw it hard enough but no human can do that so naturally it comes back down. So you take a gun out, shoot the ball, then shoot the guy standing next to you. You know the outcome but yet you're furious and you could have avoided it all by doing a different experiment. Both the ball and the guy standing next to you would live. (hopefully
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