You have to admit that completely destroying two cities or creating everything that exists in six days is a pretty significant feat.
Sure, God could have done either in an instant, but instead, I think He wanted to show us, to a degree, what He could do. He could have made it so that Sodom and Gomorrah never existed, and no one knew anything of it. But instead, he allowed them the free will to choose their sin, then he destroyed them for their sin. By doing this, God demonstrated His sovereignty and His power. Ultimately, God got the glory out of it.
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Proof, or it never happened.
So he could have created the universe instantly but decided to show that he had a weakness by taking 6 days and then resting on the seventh? Doesn't really make him all wise or all powerful, does it?
And the whole "You have free will, believe in me and do as I say or I'll destroy you!" mentality of your precious god has never made sense. More a copout, really, isn't it?
Please change you're name to "I'MAFOOL!"
But instead, he allowed them the free will to choose their sin, then he destroyed them for their sin.
An omnipotent god gives you free will, and then punishes you for exercising it in a way he doesn't like. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. </sarcasm>
Actually, given a sufficient quantity of enriched uranium, destroying two cities in an instant is quite trivial.
As for God creating everything in six days... well, those who give thought to such things will tell you that much planning must be done beforehand to make sure it all works -- research, plans, dry runs, beta tests, whatever. Or, as it was pointed out in a sourcebook for the Mage roleplaying game, it's one thing to conjure a laptop out of a bag. It's something entirely different to conjure one that works.
But don't let that stop you...
Okay, so, god destroyed two cities in an instant...but so did the United States. The power to destroy doesn't impress me. And it just goes to show your god is a sick fucking bastard.
You know why your story book says he took six days to create the universe? Because he's a wussy!
Feel that, people of Sodom? That feeling of slowly burning alive? That's called the "love of God", and when you die, you'll get to feel it for eternity in a place called "Hell". God is Good! *rolls eyes*
Creating everything in six days would have been quite a feat, if it were true. However, it isn't, so the rest of your word salad is moot.
Ultimately, God got his blood-lust and his homicidal thirst slaked.
The sin of being inhospitable is much worse than the sin of getting your father drunk and rape him?
And what exactly was the "Sin" of S&G? In God's own words:
Not that they were filled with teh gay, it was because they were filled with tea partiers.
God gets no glory from me for Sodom and Gommorah, and never will. If I ever meet him, I'll be sure to ask him why he slaughtered so many people. And why he didn't slaughter Lot, who was a complete ass and a terrible father.
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