Do you actually think God loves everyone?
I believe God made us to have a relationship with us.
Think about if you were an all-powerful being before time was time. You have complete power to do anything you will. You've got angels and shit that are subservient to your will, for they don't have a will of their own.
What is there for you to do? According to the Biblical account, God was in this state before creation and decided to "make man in his image." Why did he do this? Because to be made in God's image means we have a free will like he does, as we are a reflection of God himself.
Why make man with free will? Because without free will there can be no meaningful relationship.
If you were an all-powerful God, would you not seek out purpose? Would you not seek to create a being that is capable of free will? Without free will any relationship is meaningless.
Why do we, as man, desparately seek purpose? Perhaps it is an extension of a God who is seeking the same?
I believe God wants us all to come into a perfect relationship with him, as that is what he made us to do. I believe that the free will required to engage in a meaningful relationship also requires that we, as mankind, have to be allowed to disobey God's commands. If there is no opportunity to disobey, then obedience is meaningless.
Why do you think God put the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden? Why would God give Adam an opportunity to disobey? Because without that opporunity, there is no free will.
It is truly fascinating when you begin to understand that God is logical, as logic comes from God's own creation. It is not all the bullshit we've been taught by the faggot church complex of the modern age. It actually makes sense and isn't gay and depressing.
TL;DR: I don't believe God hates everyone. He made man to have a relationship with him. Many of us choose to ignore God's design, and we suffer for it just like one suffers for not taking care of their cars engine as it was designed. Is it any wonder that the engine breaks down when it is mishandled?
Holy fuck, we actually have the same fundamental beliefs, but come to opposite conclusions.
haha fascinating
One argument I would make against God being malevolent is this: we derrive logic and reason from nature. Nature is an extension of the creator. We are made in God's image and thus are an extension of his nature as well. So then why do we seek purpose, relationship, community? Why does logic exist at all? Why not pure insanity and chaos? If God made us just to hurt us, there's literally no logic to that.
It would imply that God did it just to screw with us, but nothing we see in creation supports that. Everything in nature has a purpose. There is function to every plant, every insect. If we see so much purpose behind creation, then how can we conclude that everything is meaningless?
It's easy to get caught up in the evils of this world and blame it on God. What has led you to conclude God hates everyone? Is it the state of man in babylon-style society that we see today? That's the evils of man, not God. The reason God doesn't just snap his fingers and undo all of man's evil deeds is because that very act would invalidate our free will. That would make every decision of man meaningless.
Personally, I don't see God as evil. I see man as corrupted, with all evil coming from the free actions of man. I see God as a father who is trying to guide his children to the light, while we're kicking and screaming for the darkness.
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