Yahuh wrong; Adam condemnea

to a prompt death.

"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Gen. ii. 17).

Yahuh pleased with his work. "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good" (Gen. i. 31).

Does not repent. "God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of man that he should repent" (Num. xxiii. 19).

Unchangeable.

"For I am the Lord; I change not" (Mal. iii. 6).

Peaceful.

"God is not the author of confusion, but of peace" (1 Cor. xiv.

33).

"And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them" (Jonah iii. 10). Changeable.

"Therefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever; but now the Lord sayeth, be it far from me......Behold, the days come that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house" (I Sam. ii. 30).

Warlike. "The Lord is a man of war (Ex. xv. 3).

"Think ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you no, but a sword [division]" (Luke xii. 51).

Unmerciful.

"I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them" (Jer. xiii. 14).

"And Joshua did unto them as the Lord bade him. He houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire......and smote all the souls that were therein, with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them" (Josh. xi. 9).

"For ye have kindled a fire in mine anger that shall burn for ever" (Jer. xvii. 4).

"And the Lord said unto Moses, take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the Sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel" (Num. xxv. 4). Is never tired.

"Hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ?” (Is. xi. 28).

Not omnipresent.

"And the Lord said, because of the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto me, and, if not, I will know " (Gen. xviii. 20).

Does not require burnt offerings.

"To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me, saith the Lord......I delight not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs" (Is. i. 11).

"For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices" (Jer. vii. 22).

Does tempt man.

"And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham" (Gen. xxii. 1).

Is revengeful and cruel. "God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries" (Nahum i. 2).

"And the Lord said unto Joshua .....he that is taken with the accursed thing [the gold, kept back from the priests] shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath; ......and Joshua and all Israel with him took action, and his sons, daughters..... and all that he had ......and stoned him, and burnt them with fire after they had stoned them......so the Lord turned from the firmness of his anger" (Josh. vii. 10).

"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites......and they slew all the males; and the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives......and Moses said unto them: Have ye saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the children and every woman that hath known man, ..but all the female children...... keep alive for yourselves" (Num. xxxi. 1).

"I will send wild beasts among

you that will rob you of your chil dren" (Lev. xxvi. 23).

His statutes are right.

"The statutes of the Lord are right" (Ps. xix. 8).

Wills to save all men. 'Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of truth" (1 Tim. ii. 4).

That all men through him [the Light] might believe" (John i. 7).

"And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone.........who believeth......may have everlasting life" (John vi. 40).

Is good.

"Good and upright is the Lord" (Ps. xxv. 8).

Forbids human sacrifice. "Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, ......for even their sons and their daughters have they burnt in the

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"Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury......and ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters" (Lev. xxvi. 28).

"A wind from the Lord brought forth quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp......and while the flesh was between their teeth the wrath of the Lord was kindled against them, and he smote them with a great plague" [for desiring a change of food from manna] (Num. xi. 31).

"And that night the angel of the Lord smote in the camp of the Assyrians 185,000 men (2 Kings xix. 35).

His statutes are not right. "Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live" (Ezek. xx. 25).

Not all; only a select few. "God shall send them a strong delusion, that they shall believe a lie; that all might be damned who believe not the truth" (2 Thess. ii. 11).

"No man can come to me except the father......draw him" (John vi. 44).

"Therefore they could not believe, because......He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, that they should not see...... nor understand, and be converted, and I should heal them " (John xii. 39, 40).

Is not good.