Attributes of God

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When you describe God as merciful, what is that based on? What has led you to that conclusion?

The Bible shows Him to be merciful at times and at other times a million miles from merciful.

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Have you simply forgotten my explanation for this?

You were defeated (like any other Christian) if you were Christian X or Christian Z in the scenario I provided. It was a no win situation.

Your fixation on being personally defeated hints perhaps on some insecurity in your beliefs.

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You have fashioned your own God. I get that. All warm and cuddly.

@fmf said
You seem to have missed the point completely.

Man did not create God, fashioning Him after our image. We have made up gods,
and we do our harm, fail to grasp who God is, and by doing that, we can miss Him
completely. We make up many things and hold conflicting views about many
things, while God is not a God of confusion and doesn't change.

We don't see things the way He does, and our limitations when we make things
up, we build into what it is we create our own flaws. The gods that sprang up in
the universe, according to our stories, had beginnings; they had fathers, starts,
and stops; the universe contains the whole story within the universe; it all begins
and ends in ever-changing while God is not part like that. He created everything,
and everything is here because of Him, not the other way around.

@kellyjay said
Man did not create God, fashioning Him after our image. We have made up gods,
and we do our harm, fail to grasp who God is, and by doing that, we can miss Him
completely. We make up many things and hold conflicting views about many
things, while God is not a God of confusion and doesn't change.

We don't see things the way He does, and our limitations when we make thing ...[text shortened]... like that. He created everything,
and everything is here because of Him, not the other way around.

You seem to have missed the point completely, as well.

@fmf said
You seem to have missed the point completely, as well.

Yawn.

@kellyjay said
Yawn.

Well exactly. It appears, once again, that you have started a thread which is not an in-good-faith attempt to start a conversation.

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Accountable? To who?

You left out the second half of the question posed in the OP.