Do Christians Worship Different Gods?

Hi GDR,
I am an unbeliever or an atheist if you prefer that. It took me 36 years to allow myself be liberated from the shackles of state church the majority of my countrymen are annexed as babies.I have been trying to bend over backwards to understand the lengths people are willing to go to interpret the Bible. To no avail - what I have been asking myself (and now you) is why on earth would an omniscient God have his story written in such an ambiguous way that arguments, fights and wars were more or less inevitable? Why could the Bible not be plain language and not parables or metaphors?The thing you presumably accuse GM and Modulous about is just so blatantly obvious to someone (like me) who does not have Jesus in his heart. A God who cheerfully commands women and children to be slaughtered to make room for His chosen people is hard to accept as loving and caring. Then again it is just unbelievable (pun intended) that to save the world from mistakes that this omnipotent allowed in the 1st place, a hybrid (god/man) had to be tortured to death. To me that sounds at best an effort or explanation that a human writer could have come up with but not a divine way of handling things.Edited by saab93f, : Typo

Jay,
I have to say that I admire your being able to create well-thought and well-written responses, faulty as they may be IMHO.I agree totally with Granny that defending the book has so much clouded your rational thinking and moral judgment that it is almost painful to watch.If the God was truly onmipotent then he could have abolished slavery with a snap of his fingers - that he apparently chose not to do. Instead of getting rid of this horrible tradition his action was to make little amends like punishing slaveowners who kill their slaves.
A "moral guide" that includes atrocities and justifies small crimes on humanity is no moral guide at all.