Why? Just...why??

haha neither am i but um No its fine, you know in the torah there is like over 600 testamnets because the people were asking god to make more laws, so thats exactly what he did and the people said they wanted a king so he gave them one, in the old testament there were laws like being put to death for adultry or stealing etc. and also people had to make an animal sacrafice to God for whatever reason, well in the New Testament God sent his only son to die for ALL of our sins so we no longer had to die but if we believe in Him we would have everloasting life, After jesus was crucified and came back from the dead we no longer had to keep all of the 600 ridiculous laws and basically only had to follow 10 Which are..
1. You shall have no other God's before me
2. You shall not worship false idols
3, You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God
4, Keep the Sabbath (7th) day holy (sunday)
5, Honor your father and mother
6. You shall not murder
7. You shall not commit adultry
8, You shall not steal
9. You shall not give false testomny to your neighboor (lie)
10. Love thy neighboor...
Which 1 and 10 practically put it in a nut shell because if you love your neighboor then you wouldnt steal or lie, murder, commit adultry. (and yes the whole bible is important, but we no longer have to be stoned to death for slipping up)
I believe if you repent love God with all your heart and follow those simple rules and treat people with respect day to day no matter what, then you should be fine. *but of course thats what i believe*

hmm well you do have a point there in my bible it says Isaiah 45:5-9 that basically to trust in God with the outsome because He knows what hes doing. Now im no high bible scholar but just a kid with a huge passion for this God we are speaking of. And in Amos 3 "Said this was for the people of Isreal-against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt" You have to remember that God is a god of love, BUT He is also a God of just. as in God will punish those who are doing wrong in his eyes, or repent and be forgiven of all your sins.
Which i feel like a goober saying all this cheesy stuff but its true. I believe it i really dont know why God does the things he does but i just have to trust that all things work together for my good, i can understand what you said about youre gods and goddesses because believe me ive been through hell to and i felt completely alone in, no i didnt get a burning bush or a lightning strike but i just had to seek God on my own, Im a little suprised myself that out of everything ive been through the past 9 years i still cling to God. I really cant say much about those passages because i havent studied them and my bible knowledge is still growing but just know that God loves you (Jermiah 1:5 ) "Before i formed you in your mother's womb i knew you, before you were born i set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet of the nations".
He explains that "you are not an afterthought. I've has known and loved you from the very beginning. When you feel discouraged, remember that I value you. I have a purpose in mind for you.
-Your Creator
Many times i want to give up on him but i just cant afford to do that because that right there is what keeps me going every day

One more thing, you said he will punish those who are doing wrong in his eyes. Well, apparently wrong to him is a woman being raped, not a man raping a woman.

(Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB)If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.

(Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB)"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."

Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst. And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city. (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)

Exodus 21:7 God not only sanctions selling ones daughter into slavery, but he also gives out laws on how it should be done.

Exodus 21:10 God ordains men taking several wives and even sets up laws as to how multiple wives should be handled.

The bible emphatically teaches against immorality in the old and new testaments. In the OT we find the story of sodom and gommorah, this is about sexual deviances, perversions and immorality. Now we know that Rape is a horrible, terrible offense, it is a sin and it is covered under immorality as it pertains to those transgressions that the transgressor will inherit a ticket and life time to hell for.

The common answer here is from the old testament, about the offender being forced to marry the victim, but nothing is mentioned about the woman in the old testament who was raped and was found to have been raped and her offender punished. Atheist tend to leave that out.

Now in Sodom, they were raping young males and God found this highly wrong and says so right there, but people are so quick to try to find something that they think they can use, but it works to the left when it is not rightly divided or studied deeper.

Think of Tamar, what happened when her evil brother absolom raped her in the OT? They never mention that either and God saw that as an abomination, a perversion and wrong. We know what his punishment for it was, it was death.

Go to 1 Corinthians 6:9, see the word immorality there in reference to the happenings in sodom and gommorah? Look up the word immorality. What happened to sodom and gommorah? it was destroyed, and the action of rape is covered under immorality and perversion.

Atheist have what they call a good argument for it, they have sites also that feed them illogic and they spew it with confidence and think weak minded persons will buy into it. don't be deceived, Rape is not okay.

Moses Receives the 10 Commandments

During the time of testing in this wilderness experience, the first thing God wanted to see was whether or not His people would keep His laws and commandments. So God then proceeds to lay out all of the laws that He wants the Israelites to abide by.
In the third month after being delivered from Egypt, God tells Moses that He will literally come down Himself onto Mount Sinai in the presence of all of His people.
When God comes down, the Bible says that Mount Sinai is completely enveloped in smoke. There were thunderings, lightnings, thick smoke, and the entire mountain “quaked greatly.”
God then descends upon Mount Sinai “in fire.” The smoke was like the smoke of a furnace the way it was ascending off of the mountain. Just imagine such an event – that God the Father Himself is descending from His throne in heaven to visit these people with His manifest presence!
God only calls Moses to come to the top of the mountain to meet and talk with Him. No one else was allowed to go up. God then proceeds to tell Moses what the basic 10 commandments are going to be. In addition to the 10 commandments were other specific laws and ways that He wanted the children of Israel to abide by. Moses then comes back down to deliver all of this to the Israelites.
Shortly after this first event, God then calls Moses back to the mountaintop once again. Moses stays on the top of the mountaintop this time with God for forty days and forty nights. The Bible says that the sight of the Lord at the top of the mountaintop was like a “consuming fire.”
In this second meeting with God, God gives Moses specific instructions on building a tabernacle where God’s manifest presence can dwell with the Israelites out in the wilderness for the 40 years they were going to have to stay out there. It was during this second meeting that God gives Moses the 10 commandments written on a stone tablet!
He was given two tablets and the tablets had writings on both sides. All of the writing on the tablets was literally the handwriting of God Himself – literally engraved right on these stone tablets.
Again, just imagine this entire scene. This one man, Moses, is allowed to meet and talk with God direct for 40 days and 40 nights and then to top it all off, receives two tablets of stone with God’s personal handwriting engraved on these two stone tablets!
While all of this is going on between God and Moses for the 40 days, the most unbelievable thing starts to happen at the bottom of this mountain. The Israelites then start to get impatient when they see Moses is delayed in coming back down from the mountaintop. They start murmuring and complaining, saying they do not know what has become of Moses.
At this point, they start to make a golden calf in which to worship. God, seeing this from the mountaintop, becomes furious! God then calls these people a stiff-necked people and threatens to consume them. God then tells Moses that He will make him a great nation, but that He is going to kill the rest of the Israelites who are worshiping this false idol.
At this point, Moses then proceeds to stand in the gap for his people and argues with God not to kill and consume them. The Bible says that the Lord then relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.
After Moses convinces God not to consume His own people, he then comes back down from the mountain to see what they have been up to. When he sees the golden calf they had made to worship and they were all singing and dancing around it, he becomes furious!
At this point, Moses takes the two tablets of stone that God had just given him, and throws them down at the foot of the mountain breaking both of these tablets into pieces! He then proceeds to take the calf which they had just made, burns it, grinds it down into a powder, scatters it into the water and then makes the Israelites drink it! Talk about the full wrath of God in manifestation!
After demolishing this golden calf, Moses then appears before all of the people and tells them to choose which side they are going to stand on – the Lord’s side or their own side. After each man takes the side they wanted to be on, Moses then gives the orders to have all the people who did not choose God to be killed right there on the spot. The Bible says that 3000 men were killed that day due to their rebellion against God Almighty Himself.
Moses then goes back up to Mount Sinai, and God once more gives him 2 more tablets of stone to replace the ones that he had just broken. However, in this meeting with God, something really awesome happens!
2. Moses is Allowed to See the Manifest Presence of God

In this next meeting with God, God tells Moses that He is going to literally show Himself to Moses. However, God tells Moses:
“You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” (Exodus 33:20)
God then tells Moses to stand in the cleft of a rock. He will then proceed to pass by Moses, but only showing Moses His back, not His face. Here are the exact words from God Himself:
“Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.” (Exodus 33:21-23)
This has to be the topper experience for Moses. With everything that he has just witnessed – with God releasing His people from Egypt with incredible displays of supernatural power, being able to talk direct with God through a burning bush, being able to talk direct to God through fire and smoke up on Mount Sinai, and then to top it all off, God actually allows Moses to see His manifest presence from His backside. It just can’t get any better than this. And this one man experiences all of this in one lifetime!
The Bible then gives Moses what I feel may be the highest compliment that God could ever give to anyone. The Bible says:
“So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.” (Exodus 33:11)
The #1 thing that God wants from each of us is a close, intimate, personal relationship. Moses obviously accomplished all of this in his lifetime. He may have initially been afraid to deliver God’s people from Egypt when God first called him out, but he had no fear when the time came to meet God face-to-face and talk directly with Him. The Bible says that the rest of the Israelites were too afraid of God when He initially manifested His presence up on Mount Sinai.
After Moses has this incredible direct encounter with God Himself, the Bible says that when he came back down off the mountain – that the skin of his face shone. The people were afraid to come near him due to the bright glow that was coming off his face after being in the manifest presence of the Lord! Moses then had to wear a veil over his face for a while to help hide the glow so as not to overwhelm the rest of his people.
3. The Tabernacle

The other amazing thing that occurred during the Israelites 40 year journey in the wilderness was the building of a tabernacle that would hold the manifest presence of God Himself in it. God gave Moses specific instructions as to how He wanted this tabernacle built.
After the tabernacle was built, the Bible says that a cloud covered the tabernacle during the day and the appearance of fire covered it at night! God would thus personally lead the Israelites on this 40 year journey by the “cloud and the fire.”
Whenever the cloud would lift up off the tabernacle, the Israelites would follow it to wherever it would settle. As long as the cloud stayed on the tabernacle, the Israelites would stay right where they were camped. Once the cloud would lift off the tabernacle, they would then once again follow it to wherever it would settle. God’s manifest presence was thus directly guiding them on this wilderness journey.
4. The Spies Come Back With a Bad Report

Near the beginning of the 40-year journey through the wilderness at about the two and half year mark, God brings the children of Israel up to the borders of the Promised Land – the land of Canaan. The Israelites send 12 spies into this land to check it out before they will enter in. They then make their last and final fatal mistake before God the Father.
Ten of the twelve spies come back with a bad report. They tell the rest of the Israelites that the people who dwell in this land are strong, the cities are well fortified and large, and that they will not be able to overcome these people because they are stronger and larger in stature than the Israelites were themselves.
Giants and strongholds thus kept the Israelites from believing that God could overcome these human obstacles for them. After hearing this bad and negative report, Caleb speaks out and says:
“Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” (Numbers 13:30)
During their journey through the wilderness, the Israelites were constantly complaining about anything and everything. Not enough food, not enough water, too long of a time in the wilderness, etc. Finally, when God was just about ready to reward them, they make their last and final mistake of not believing in Him and that He could overcome the giants and strongholds they had seen in this land.
When God hears this bad report from the 10 spies, He says that is going to be it. Here is the direct word from God Himself:
“… because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it. But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.” (Numbers 14:22-24)
God then goes on to further state:
“Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me.” (Numbers 32:11)
Joshua and Caleb were thus the ones to lead this younger generation under 20 years old into the Promised Land, and they were successful in conquering and overcoming all of the giants and strongholds that the older generation initially saw. The rest of the Israelites 20 years and older all died out in the wilderness over the next 40 years due to their lack of faith and belief in God!
Imagine these people saw God deliver them from the Egyptians by throwing 10 powerful plagues against the Pharaoh. They then see God literally part the Red Sea. They see God’s manifest presence several times up on Mount Sinai. They see God give Moses 10 commandments miraculously manifested on two stone tablets. And yet, they still could not believe that God could overcome and conquer the giants and strongholds they saw in the Promised Land.
No wonder God blew His cork and washed His hands of them and left them to die and rot out in the desert. The most amazing thing about all of this is that not one man over 20 years old passed this test with the Lord.
Unbelievable! I guess that is why Jesus says blessed are those who have not seen and yet still believe.
THE DEATH OF MOSES

The saddest part about this man’s story is that he was not allowed to go into the Promised Land with the rest of the younger generation. Moses died on Mount Nebo and was 120 years old when he died.
The Bible says that the reason Moses was not allowed to go into the Promised Land was due to the fact that he “trespassed against God among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh.”
What happened in this incident is that God told Moses to speak out to a rock in the presence of the Israelites and that the rock would then bring forth water for the people and their animals. However, for some strange reason, Moses strikes the rock twice with his rod instead of just speaking out to the rock as God had told him to specifically do. He was thus in direct violation of a direct command by God Himsel

Einstein greatly resented people like Muskoka who tried to define him as an atheist. You are not the fool.

Einstein studied Spinoza and identified with Spinoza both culturally and philosophically. The Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: "Firmly denying atheism, Einstein expressed a belief in 'Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the harmony of what exists.'

Saying "I'm not an atheist," he explained:
"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is."

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God...

In a letter to V. T. Aaltonen (7 May 1952), Einstein explained his opinion that belief in a personal God is better than atheism. Einstein said, "Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all." [Einstein Archive 59-059]
In a letter to Hans Muehsam (30 March 1954), Einstein said: "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever... This is a somewhat new kind of religion." [Einstein Archive 38-434]
In a letter to a child who asked if scientists pray (24 January 1936), said: "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man... In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive." [Einstein Archive 42-601]
In a letter to M. Berkowitz (25 October 1950), Einstein said: "My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment." [Einstein Archive 59-215]