cold: In my private moments,when I choose to get off Nairaland and other social media and networking sites.I continue my research into the Bible,the Qur'an,God and scrupulosity.And often times one can't help but wonder if God is actually the bad guy and Satan is just the fall guy.The guy that got framed!I'm not a Satan worshiper neither am I holding brief for him.I believe he can plead his own case if need be.I'm just stating the issues as dispassionately as I can

Let us start with the name 'Jehovah'.“The LORD is a man of war: the JEHOVAH is his name.” ~ Bible, Exodus 15:3
In Hebrew, Je or Jeh or Jah means Lord or God [ref].
The suffix “hovah” has the meaning of “ruin, mischief.” (No. 1943 in Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary)
It is another form of ‘havvah’, which is translated “calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.” (No. 1942)
Put the two (Je + hovah) together and you get “God of ruin, mischief, calamity, perversion, and wickedness”. And don’t forget ‘noisome‘ – which means it stinks! From the foregoing,one is bound to ask; is Jehovah The God of Evil or Good?

The Wrathful God

“Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.” (Psalms 18:7-11)
Let us consider that these verses describe an angry (wroth) being, spouting smoke and fire, whose secret place consisted of darkness. This devilish entity sounds like a description of Satan, but believe it or not, actually comes from the Bible as describing God.

God rejoices over death
“And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.” (Deuteronomy 28:63)

If the religious mind believes that God represents a loving God, then one must wonder about God, as described in the Bible, who would rejoice to destroy.God appears completely devoid of any wit or humor; a mental state that psychologists have observed in many schizophrenics.

I'm always befuddled at how many times this God orders the killing of innocent people even after the Ten Commandments said “Thou shall not kill”. For example, God kills 70,000 innocent people because David ordered a census of the people (1 Chronicles 21). God also orders the destruction of 60 cities so that the Israelites can live there. He orders the killing of all the men, women, and children of each city, and the looting of all of value (Deuteronomy 3). He orders another attack and the killing of “all the living creatures of the city: men and women, young, and old, as well as oxen sheep, and asses” (Joshua 6). In Judges 21, He orders the murder of all the people of Jabesh-Gilead, except for the virgin girls who were taken to be forcibly raped and married. When they wanted more virgins, God told them to hide alongside the road and when they saw a girl they liked, kidnap her and forcibly rape her and make her your wife! Just about every other page in the Old Testament has God killing somebody! In 2 Kings 10:18-27, God orders the murder of all the worshipers of a different god in their very own church! In total God kills 371,186 people directly and orders another 1,862,265 people murdered.

The God of the Bible also allows slavery, including selling your own daughter as a sex slave (Exodus 21:1-11), child abuse (Judges 11:29-40 and Isaiah 13:16), and bashing babies against rocks (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. (& Psalms 137:9)Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Wow!Even reading this now makes my blood curdle.Believe me,this is God speaking.
You can add the story of Job here for good measure.

In conclusion,it is safe to assume reading through the Old Testament appears to affirm the observation that God and Satan, if not one and the same, at least work as a team.

project8: bros u beta repent cos u jus declare a war with God.I dnt care wat u said abt the bible cos u wil account for ur statement sumday bt to conclude that God almighty teams with satan is outrageous blasphemy and indeed an open declaration to rebellion with ur creator.I rest my case

inurmind: Great thread, you need to modify the title though.

cold: You all give the impression of an omnipotent,omniscient omni what else God. Who created the world and everything therein. Thus knows everything and decides everything. Well it appears that is not the case. Since he needs the devil to execute some of his plans.
Or could it just be a case of God suffering from a case of double personality? One minute he is God & the other he is Satan. Seems plausible.

shdemidemi: He is all you said He is and more. The reason you know killing as bad is because God made it known to you as bad through law and conscience.
He is not bound by conscience or emotions or laws of man.
Example, if the government decide to make buying bread against the law today, it automatically becomes bad when its done. But God made the laws and man as a whole, He isn't bound by laws.

shdemidemi: He is all you said He is and more. The reason you know killing as bad is because God made it known to you as bad through law and conscience.
He is not bound by conscience or emotions or laws of man.
Example, if the government decide to make buying bread against the law today, it automatically becomes bad when its done. But God made the laws and man as a whole, He isn't bound by laws.

cold:
Like seriously?So without your God you wouldn't have known killing was bad?Oma se o!Can you please stop subjecting yourself & this God of yours to further ridicule

cold: Lool..talking about Christianity. I was a devout Christian for over 30 years. Paying my tithe faithfully,praying fervently and abstaining from all forms of evil vices. I was in one of those trance like prayer moods when i suddenly discovered i'd been talking to myself all these years. The demise of my dad also contributed in no small measure to my present stance. After months of serious no holds barred prayers. The old man still passed away. All this time this God was laughing hysterically at me. Gosh! What a fool i've been