It is often said that God is all-loving. Here is a verse that shows how loving he is towards people that are suffering in the desert...
The Israelites left Mount Hor by the road that leads to the Gulf of Aqaba, in order to go around the territory of Edom. But on the way the people lost their patience and spoke against God and Moses. They complained, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We can't stand any more of this miserable food!" Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and many Israelites were bitten and died. The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Now pray to the Lord to take these snakes away." So Moses prayed for the people. Then the Lord told Moses to make a metal snake and put it on a pole, so that anyone who was bitten could look at it and be healed. So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. Anyone who had been bitten would look at the bronze snake and be healed. -Numbers 21:4 GNB
Doesn't God sound like a real nice guy? He takes some of the few people that actually believe in him during the time, and tortures them by having them travel through a desert. This guy is suppose to be all powerful, he could have given them some ATVs with endless gas; or maybe he could have instantly teleported them to the promise land; hell, at the very least he could have given them some bottled water and granola bars. He could have done it in the blink of an eye (being that he is all powerful) without breaking a sweat—instead he forces them to travel through the desert, and if they complain, HE WILL SEND FUCKING SNAKES TO KILL THEM.
Either way, it's a good thing Samuel L. Jackson wasn't there—he probably would have brought on the apocalypse.
God is like a drunken redneck in a bar—if you piss him off, you better hope he has one of his friends nearby to talk some sense into him. It's pretty funny how this god always loses his cool and needs to be talked into doing the right thing (which is not killing people with snakes because they are vocal about their dislike starvation and dehydration).
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