Hippie Mama has pen, will travel

Let's imagine that somehow there was a portion of the Bible that you had never read before.

You already have a talking serpent, a man who lived for three days in a fish, a body of water parting, the sun standing still, a talking donkey, and hundreds of thousands of animals on a boat for a year. Is there anything that would make you say, "No way! That can't possibly be true"? Anything?

If he'd had a sex drive, he would have lusted. Maybe only for a second before he stopped it, but it would have occurred, and he would no longer be sinless.

And if Jesus would have had to have been created differently from all other humans so he could avoid sin, isn't God creating humans in a way that ensures they *must* sin?

I just wanted to double check before buying an outfit.

When you touch something very hot, you automatically jerk away from it to prevent being harmed. Isn't that taking away your free will? Wouldn't it be more in keeping with his modus operandi to warn us against it, but allow us to continue touching fire, only to be terribly hurt later?

Conversely, why wouldn't God make sin as repellent, especially given the much greater--and eternal--damage it causes?

Exodus 23:25-26 Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.

God knows Satan is only going to lead people astray, which will result in them ending up in eternal torture. If killing anyone for their sins is okay, why hasn't Satan topped God's hit list?

Is that moral behavior?

If God made the rule, then he chose to torture and (temporarily) kill his son. If God didn't make the rule, who did?

If so, why was he mistaken?

If not, why did he set Adam and Eve up like that?

In Christianity, at what age is someone considered old enough to be held accountable for their sins?

Are infants accountable? How about fetuses?

Did God kill people who were too young to be punished for their sins when he caused the Flood, destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, killed the firstborn in Egypt, etc.?

The Bible not only doesn't condemn slavery but actively advocates it. So if a Christian said that slavery is morally wrong, wouldn't they be blaspheming?

...begging them to take her aboard? Would they have?

What if she managed to cling onto their ark? Would they have pushed her off?

What would be the moral thing to do here? What would God have wanted? Are they the same?

Does it say anywhere in the Bible that Yahweh/Jehovah is the only god who is real? Chapter and verse please?

What evidence (or lack thereof) led you to believe that Krishna, Ahura Mazda, Zeus, Osiris, etc. never existed and that your god does?

If so, why do Christians say that we're all hopeless sinners who don't deserve to go to heaven? If Adam and Eve and their descendants could have remained sin-free throughout the ages, why can't people today be sin-free?

If it's *impossible* to be sin-free, then it's not humans' fault but the fault of their creator, isn't it?

Did he allow them free will in writing it? In editing it? In deciding which books would be included and which excluded? In translating it?

Christians have used the Bible to support slavery and to oppose integration and interracial marriage. Most Christians today, even fundamentalists, would say that they were wrong. Why do Christians today think they're right in using the Bible to deny equal rights to gay people?