God-at least the christian conception of him-is said to be omni-max, that is omniscient, omnipotent, omni-benevolent, omnipresent. etc..
For most of the bible, the power of the almighty God seems limited to cleaning up his own messes and aiding genocide. In one chapter creating the heavens and the earth, in another being unable to stop iron chariots, flooding the world today, being out wrestled by Jacob the next. Is it any wonder the world is in such a state if he is in charge?
His omniscience grants him little more wisdom than a toddler whose only plan is kill everything, worship me or die, it did not inform him whether or not it was wise to place his newly created humans with his worst enemy.
Omni benevolence: Hell, Sodom and Gomorrah, the flood. 'nuff said.

All this is just icing on the cake.
Most right wing, fundie christians love to parrot the claim that the Bible is the inspired word of God.
That it contains no mistakes and is completely true, it is God's word to us humans.
If this is so, we are forced to believe that this God is very incompetent or malevolent.
This is a literal life or death situation, God has the answer, and creates a book with that answer, then goes through great pains to disguise that book as a badly written book of fiction, riddled with contradictions filling every book.
He fills the book with magic, bam!!! Strips the modern world of any vestige of it.
It almost feels like it describes history of an alternate universe.
A few of those contradictions include the genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke, if I was to accept that okay, maybe they refer to different people, the chronology still doesn't add up. Same with the birth of Jesus, the chronology for that one is all over the place, what with Mary and Joseph fleeing for Egypt till Herod died yet being in Jerusalem for Jesus' eight day ceremony. The various accounts of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the conversion of Saul, the Amalekites being wiped out completely THREE different times .
If the lord God wanted us to believe in his word. he should have done a better job on it. No matter how you look at it, God is either incompetent or malevolent, an incompetent God might throw you in hell by mistake. And do you really want to worship a malevolent one?
Of course there is a simple answer for this, the bible is a book of mythology just like any. Crafted by fearful tribesmen of the iron age to explain what they did not know. It is a relic of the past and should be treated as such.




P.S To liberals and progressive christians who do not assert the inerrancy of the bible, do not encourage those who do.http://atheistbibleanalyst..com/2012/06/bible-contradictionsincompetence-or.html