Fifteen Things that a Good and All-Knowing God Would Never Do
Yet, the Bible declares that He did all of them
The Bible teaches that the God of the Bible, as depicted by what most Christians declare is His infallible word, either did the following or expressly demanded the following. How many of them would you do if you had all power and knowledge?
1. Intentionally created a food chain that required almost all animals and insects to kill other living creatures should they desire to live or feed their babies:
These creatures are totally innocent, and their near universal suffering serves no purpose in a world created by a good God. They live in 24/7 fear; then its either kill or be killed with a whole lot of suffering and pain.
Plus, many of them suffer with the various types of diseases and defects that are endemic to specific kinds of animals. Then there is the environmental; many freeze, die of hunger, and over 800 million birds die every year in the U.S. just by crashing into windows.
2. Raped King David’s wife to punish him for adultery:
2 Samuel 12:11–12 states word for word; Thus says the Lord, “Behold, I will raise up evil against you from your own household; I will even take your wives before your eyes and give them to your companion, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. Indeed, you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and in open daylight.’”
This should not surprise anyone who knows the Bible, as God has also given away other wives to other men.
Jeremiah 8:9–10 ” The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and caught; behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, so what kind of wisdom do they have? Therefore, I will give their wives to others, their fields to new owners; because from the least even to the greatest, everyone is greedy for gain; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone practices deceit.”
Exodus 21:4 “If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall leave alone.”
3. With total forethought, created a mosquito that would go on to kill billions of people, usually the poorest and most helpless:
The most conservative estimate is that 3–6 billion have died throughout all of history. Some experts estimate the total deaths are well over 20 billion. Regardless, malaria is likely the deadliest disease in human history.
Children under 5 years old are the most vulnerable group, accounting for about 80% of malaria deaths. Sub-Saharan Africa bears the greatest burden, with over 90% of global malaria deaths.
Here is what the witty Mark Twain said about the “typhoid fly” when quoting from “Noah’s Diary.” To those who are familiar with Mark Twain’s writings, they clearly understand his motive is often much more than mere entertainment. He frequently has a serious point he wants to make.
One example of the way he entertains with silly and outrageous stories while at the same time presenting a deep and important issue is found in an entry he informs us about from the personal diary of Noah. In it, Noah writes that God was so angry at him once that He made him backtrack the ark for 16 days until he finally found and loaded the typhoid fly that his sons had neglected to load before launching the ark. Twain concluded that the fly was not left behind by accident because “all things happen for a purpose.” With all the rotting corpses around, the fly was able to gather many types of bacteria and viruses that could later be passed on when the time was right.” (Obviously, the fly was not a mosquito, but the thought is the same.)
For more of Mr. Twain, see the link below, The Bible According to Mark Twain.
4. Intentionally causes women to suffer great pain during childbirth, because the first woman (without the ability to know right from wrong), ate a little fruit. He also decreed that women will now serve their husband and submit to his rule:
Genesis 3:16 To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you shall deliver children; yet your desire will be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”
Here is another quote from Mark Twain from a letter Satan wrote to Michael and Gabriel. Satan described how hard he tried to explain to Eve what words like “obey” and “death” meant, questions she had asked him about. After many attempts to explain them, he wrote that “she was like a child who had no ability to comprehend concepts such as “obey” or “death.” She simply was completely devoid of any ability to even comprehend the difference between good or evil. So if she really wanted to know those things, she would just have to eat the fruit.”
5. Required young virgins to marry their rapist if he pays 50 shekels of silver to her father:
Deuteronomy 22:28–29 “If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and has sexual relations with her, and they are discovered, then the man who had sexual relations with her shall give the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife, because he has violated her; he is not allowed to divorce her all his days.”
6. Having all power, He utterly refuses to protect children in need:
The most recent global health data shows (2023) that over 13,000 children under the age of five die every day, and most are due to preventable or treatable diseases. Most of these deaths occur in low income countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia.
Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest under-five mortality rate in 2023, at 69 deaths per 1,000 live births, which is 14 times higher than in Europe and Northern America. In contrast, high-income regions like Australia and New Zealand reported rates as low as 1.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.
There are many verses in the Bible that shows that its god cares little for the welfare of children.
1 Samuel 15:3 “Attack the Amalekites . . . put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels, and donkeys.”
Hosea 13:16 “Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.”
Deuteronomy 28:47–57 “Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart . . . you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you.” This is not the only verse about God and cannibalism.
7. Lot raped and impregnated both of his daughters, shortly after he offered them to a gang of sex graved men. He told the gang that they could do anything with them that they wanted to. Yet, God’s inspired book states in 2 Peter Chapter 2, twice that Lot was a righteous man and another time that he had a righteous soul:
Genesis 19:8 “Now look, I have two daughters who have not had relations with any man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do not do anything to these men, because they have come under the shelter of my roof.”
Genesis 19:30 begins the story of Lot impregnating his daughters. It is another example of the Bible’s disrespect of women, as it outrageously blames the girls by claiming that it was the girls who got him drunk and then raped him while he was sleeping. Twice!
8. Inspired a book (allegedly to save people) that is filled with hundreds of contradictions including clear-cut errors regarding history, science, and geography:
By definition, an all-knowing and perfect god would have zero errors. The argument that the originals were perfect, but the copying by man was not, is absurd. Why make the original then if it is not protected?
Literally hundreds of them are contained in the links below.
9. Demanded genocides and authorized wholesale rapes of their captives:
Deuteronomy 21:10–13: ”When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take them away captive, and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for yourself, then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails. She shall also remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her (that means to rape her) and be her husband and she shall be your wife.” (Rape and kidnapping were not only approved by the Bible, but they were expressly authorized as part of God’s Law):
Numbers 31:17–18 “Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately. However, all the girls who have not known a man intimately, keep alive for yourselves.”
1 Samuel 15:3 “Now go and strike Amalek and completely destroy everything that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”
Deuteronomy 7:21–25 The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you . . . until they are destroyed. He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.
10. Expressly authorized slavery and sometimes commanded it:
Would the prohibition of slavery have been a good commandment?
Leviticus 25:44–46 “As for your male and female slaves whom you may have — you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you. You may also acquire them from the sons of the foreign residents who reside among you, and from their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession. You may also pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.”
Exodus 21:7 “Now if a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to go free as the male slaves do.”
Exodus 21:1–6: ”Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them: If you buy a Hebrew slave, (note very carefully the different laws for the Hebrew slave versus the foreign slave), he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment. If he comes alone, he shall go out alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone. But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,’ then his master shall bring him to God, and then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.”
It is incredible how often I hear Christians downplay the reality of slavery. If this is you, please take one minute and try to imagine you and your children chained inside of a transatlantic slave ship.
11. Created an eternal torture chamber for anyone not believing something that cannot even be proven:
While many Christian pastors and apologists try very hard to downplay and many even deny that the Bible teaches there is an eternal hell; what is the clear meaning of the following verses? Before I cite several several of them, PLEASE UNDERSTAND that, thankfully, the Bible is just made up stories by bronze-aged old men many centuries ago. To say “I love you, but if you do not love me back, I will torture you for an endless eternity, is not love by any definition. These verses were intended to invoke fear and subservience, by men seeking power and control.
Mark 9:47–48 “ And if your eye is causing you to sin, throw it away; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be thrown into hell, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not extinguished.”
Revelation 14:9 “ And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
Revelation 20:15 “ And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”
Just like most Christians, most Muslims are Muslims because they believed their loving parents who taught them it was true. The same for Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Zeus, Osiris, Baal, Diana, Apollo, the many Egyptian Pharaohs, who were believed to have divine attributes, and thousands more. To condemn a person with eternal torture for obeying, believing, and respecting the teachings of their loving and caring parents is not anything a good God or even the evilest person would think was fair.
12. Drowned every human being on earth, except for eight, including all the babies, children, pregnant women, and animals including every cat, dog, and bunny rabbit:
Apologists try to justify this by saying immorality was widespread. Others try to justify it claiming that the human race was contaminated by women having sex with angels. Thus, God had to start over. But nothing ever got better, ever!
Genesis 6:6–8 “I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created — people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
So much for a perfect plan.
13. Killed David’s new baby for additional punishment:
2 Samuel 12:14 “However, since by this deed you have shown utter disrespect for the Lord, the child himself who is born to you shall certainly die.”
2 Samuel 12:18 “Then it happened on the seventh day that the child died……”
14. King Solomon, according to the Bible, had 700 wives along with 300 sex slaves who were on call, 24/7. The “author” of the Bible, accordingly to Christian and Jewish believers was God. He is quoted as saying that this Solomon was the wisest man on earth:
Do you agree with that “divine” opinion?
15. God, who the Bible declares always existed with no beginning, waited trillions of trillions of centuries, before He created the universe and life:
Does that even make sense? Without a beginning, there is not enough space in the entire universe to even write such a large enough number to try to indicate how long that was.
Conclusion:
There is only one conclusion that any fair-minded person can make. And that is that they themselves are much more moral than the god of the Bible. Karen Armstrong was right when she began her bestselling book The History of God, “In the beginning, man created god.”
Thousands of gods have been invented throughout history, hundreds of them honored with huge monuments and buildings, with followers serving them with extreme devotion and sacrifice. Yet, not one of them had any tangible or objective evidence that they were real. Yet, all of their followers had “faith,” an attribute that is neither smart nor objective. It allows you to believe absolutely anything you may desire. There is no exception. It allows you to believe anything, even if your brain, eyes, or ears tells you differently.
For further readings, here are a few more articles from the same author.
Oh How Easy it is to Create a God
Is the New Testament Really “Nicer” than the Old Testament?
Ten Reasons why the Bible’s Story of the Exodus is not True
Why do so many People still believe that Adam and Eve were Real?
An Atheist’s Tribute to Tony Campolo
God: Is “He” Good or a Monster Like No Other?
The Bible According to Mark Twain
Ten Reasons to Ban the Bible from Schools (for those who are banning books)
