If you were God, what kind of God would you be?

hey dont laugh, you were the one who said the atheists act with moralsI do understand that there is tyrannical abuses of power, but God does not deal with anyone this way. He executes his judicial decisions in a righteous way.

becasue Jesus showed that the purpose of the kingdom was to bring about the end of the wars of the nations.
Jesus showed that all who would live under the kingdom arrangement would do so by living in peace and loving their enemies.Also, God does not take sides in wars because he views all mankind as one group, not as separate nations. he does not suffer from nationalism the way we do. He is not partial. This was asked of Abraham, but it proved to be a test of faith and not an actual request. God has never asked it from anyone else and he never will.

i did not say anything about soldiers being immoral. I asked you how 'putting your swords away & loving your enemies' applies to soldiersare you judging them as immoral becuase they have not put their swords away? Gods objective absolute morality is summed up in 5 words
"Love your neighbour as yourself"if we all did this, then there would be no wars. Love is Gods absolute morality. i didnt realise that i was coming across that way

actually, anyone could join the isrealites in worship. The nation was not exclusive to natural born jews.So, even though God chose that nation to represent him, he did not make approach to him exclusive to them only. He accepted proselytes from all nations.After the establishment of christianity, then Christ became the chosen means of approach to God and any man from any nation could become a christian also. So he was never impartial, he merely used 1 nation as the mean of approach to him in ancient times.

'accused' yes, understood - no.

explain the cananite cities of Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.the cheifs of these cities sent a delegation to request peace with Isreal...they did trick Joshua because they told them they were from a far away land, but even after they were found out in their lie, Isreal kept the covenent in place and did not war with them... infact, when other cannanite cities heard about how these ones had made peace with Isreal, they wanted to kill them. Who saved them from death?
The isrealites protected those Canaanite cities from other cannanites who were intent on destroying them. This is because God always acts in righteousness, mercy and Justice.You can read the whole account in Joshua chpt 9.

absolute morality only works if everyone agrees what it is and to abide by it. Our world shows that they do not.Jesus provided a perfect model for absolute morality - 'Love'If we all treated each other with love, then absolute morality could exist.

but he actually wasnt partial to them. The law allowed for people of any nation to join isreal in the worship of God.The reason why 1 nation was chosen back then was because God was sending his son who had to be born into a nation who worshiped God in the correct way.The purpose of the Messiah was to atone for the sin of Adam so that All of Adams descendents could have an approach to God. Once that Messiah arrived, he stood in place of the Mosaic law so that all nations could worship God thru him.So the reality is that Isreal was chosen for a specific purpose, not because God thought they were better but because true worship needed a model and they were the ones chosen to model it.However, now that we have Jesus, he has become the model for worship and so we follow him instead.

do you really think that God would send his son to a people who participated in vile acts and who practiced satanic forms of worship?he needed a group of people who knew him and knew how to worship him acceptable, on top of that, he wanted to send his son to a clean, holy pure nation because his son was holy, clean and pure. He chose Isreal because they were the descendents of his friend Abraham. So he sent them his laws and prepared them for the arrival of the Messiah.This is why the mosaic law was so strict when it came to justice. The nation needed to be clean from everything that God considered immoral. Edited by Peg, : No reason given.

and whats wrong with theocracy?At least its consistent and everyone knows what it is. People come and go along with their standardsGods standards are always stable.

He did....they are called Gentiles and the christian church today is mostly made up of gentiles.And whats more, Jesus didnt even need to be here to bring them into his church.

well to be realistic, theocracy is an oxymoronits impossible to for man to institute what is only institutable by God.Theocracy means 'God Rule'how can we say God is ruling if man is the one administering it? Its impossible.But it wont be impossible if God actually institutes & administers it...then no man will dominate over any other man... all mankind will be answerable to God alone and God will be the one to administer the justice. So those nations who say they are theocratic are not really theorcratic. they are just using religion to administer their own rule.God is not really ruling them. Edited by Peg, : No reason given.

in the first instance I was referring to his son being 'born and bought up' within a nation. He was born into Isreal and so the nation needed to be worthy of that honor.Its a bit like if the queen was coming to visit you. You'd probably clean the house from top to bottom to make your home worthy of her visit. God did the same with the nation he sent his son to.in the second instance, Jesus was not physically among people...by this stage he was back in heaven, so the circumstances were completely different. People would have to come to him through their faith in him, he didnt have to dwell physically with anyone.

if true theocracy was in place, things would change dramatically. The reality we know today: crime, sickness, starvation, pollution, war etc will be things of the past. They are the very problems that God and Jesus will remove. Jesus showed that he had the power to cure the sick, to feed the hungry, raise the dead and even that he could control the forces of nature. These miracles he performed were fore gleams of what he will do on a much greater scale when his kingdom ruled from heaven.This was the purpose of gathering people from all nations...it was to prepare people to live as subjects of his heavenly kingdom government.The prophets spoke of Gods Kingdom as a real government that would take action against this worlds governments and rule in place of them. Daniel 2:44 "The God of heaven will set up a kingdom...and the kingdom will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms and it itself will stand to times indefinite"So true theocracy cannot begin until all our present governments step aside and acknowledge Gods Kingdom...if they dont, he will remove them himself. Then he will eradicate ALL the worlds problems, reality will be completely different.Edited by Peg, : No reason given.

because it exists with God. As the creator and life giver, he is the ultimate power of authority and therefore has the legal right to impose whatever morality he sees fit. because love is Gods dominant quality, he becomes the standard for what love is. Paul gave a brief summary of what love is:1Cor 14:4Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, 5does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. 6It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. rape is against Gods law in the bible, the soldiers of isreal were not raping captive women... the warfare that occurred in Isreal in bible times was always for the sake of righteousness and justice. when children die as a result of war its not because God thought it would be good to kill children, but because the leaders and family heads of those nations chose to go to war out of rebellion and hatred. Its not genocide though, not when God makes the way out for those who want it and those who seek it.