@Richard Kay
Firstly, thank you for that very well thought out reply however you may well find that most people on here do not want to sue God, as it were, for being God and making life unfair. I would say this is kind of allegorical (like Job). What people have a problem with is the following;
1) One accepts God founded his Church on St Peter.
Ok, but now we have
2) Why does God let His message get so Garbled and Confused?
We have Three main religions of the monotheistic type. Each worships the same God (the One God according to each of them, so it must be the same One surely, logically speaking) but does so slightly differently. Each also decides that anyone who doesn't worship this deity their way is somehow inferior and deserves to be punished/languish in some form of flaming place for eternity/be forced into doing things their way/killed....many so-called adherants even use these facts and practises to justify genocide and atrocity/murder. Each major religion has, at least once in it's history done this. God did nothing. God sat on and watched impassively. God sent us Jesus (it is alleged). We made a complete hash of his "Love everybody and be nice" message and went off on a considerable tangent, made the place where this man died a place of conflict and do He knows what (and He knows everything allegedly) all in His name and He lets us do it.
Now the Bible is either Allegory or Fact. Be it Bible, Torah por Quran. Now, back in The Bible (to use an example), God did a lot of personal work to unbelievers and those perceived as bad/evil etc and prevented a great many misunderstandings about Himself and His religions. Surely if all these facts or true then it is obvious to everyone that God no longer cares. Else Yahweh would have saved his Chosen People from the Holocaust, he'd have stopped this or that Atrocities committed in His name; corrected His creations....seems like we've done much worse than those wiped out in the Flood did but we're still here.
So, to conclude. If the Bible is true and undeniable FACT then God can and did interced many times for reasons lesser than those seen today and in the past. He did not.
So God no longer cares about His creations?
God no longer accepts responsibility?
God no longer follows His own Plan?
Why God chose to let every single one of the Religions "founded in His name" break up into so many different sects and orders, all of whom disagree and squabble incessently rather than just making it obvious and correcting everyone and having everyone being given the simple choice of Worship Me or Don't not as it is today;
1) Be born in the right country
2) Accept the version forced upon you even if it's the Wrong One
3) Do what a particular interpretation of a Book tell you to
4) Die
5) Having in all likelyhood, been part of the wrong group of People Who get God Right, go to Hell through no fault of your own, or get killed by one of the other groups
In effect, explain to me why God would allow all of this to happen In His Name, if He actually cared as deeply as the Bible says He does? And don't give me the tired old ineffibility or the usual "God moves in mysterious ways" rubbish.....explain the apparent contradiction to me please.
God should be put on trial for refusing to fulfil His Contract with Man and, if the Bible is to be believed, abandoning the same to Satan...if you believe in either of those people of course
In other words, God is not on trial, but His churches most certainly should be
Biting the hand that feeds IT
