chekmate

Can someone point me to, or list the atrocities commited by each of these entities in the Bible? I remember reading somewhere that God is much worse then the Devil, and just want some specifics points to point out. Thanks.

ShottleBop

For God, try reading Steve Allen's book God, the Bible and Morality. As for Satan, there's virtually nothing about him at all in the OT, other than the Book of Job, where he's basically a minion of God.

Vinnie

""""""Can someone point me to, or list the atrocities commited by each of these entities in the Bible? """""""

Do the events of the 6th day qualify?

cloudyphiz

let's see... genocide of untold millions vs. tempting someone to eat a piece of fruit.

i'm gonna go with the snake on this one.

-gary

chekmate

This is the kind of example I was looking for, if a little more specific. Eating fruit vs Killing (insert person). Giving boils (he did that once, didn't he?) vs human sacrifice. Things like this. Personally, I don't think the devil is that bad at all, comparativly. I know that, but the person that I am convincing doesn't.

atrahasis

Satan told them if they eat from the tree of knowledge, they will know right from wrong.
God told them that if they do, they shall surely die.

Well, they did and it turned out God was lying to them. They lived for many yeasrs after eating the fruit and had many kids.

So, God lied and satan said the truth.

cloudyphiz

checkmate -

you may want to check out this article:

<a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~robwir/devbio.html" target="_blank">the devil's biography</a>

i think it contains a lot of what you're looking for. as for the alleged atrocities of yahweh (like killing 60k innocent israelites when the alleged king david performed a census incorrectly) there are plenty of articles in the secweb library you could look at. a quick search should lead you too them.

-gary