As I've stated many times, God is both justice and love. So-called "barbaric acts" have not always been the judgment of God. More often than not, they are attacks of Satan, or they're situations we created, made worse by us as a fallen race.
Um....dude....Satan had nothing to do with "slaughter a lamb, paint your doorposts with it's blood. Anyone who doesn't do that? I'll kill your firstborn son."
And the firstborn sons had NOTHING to do with Pharoah's disobediance OR their parents if their parents decided not to kill a lamb and paint their doors with it's blood, yet THEY were the ones who were murdered by your just and loving God.
There are hundreds of similar stories of his barbarism and sadism where Satan or Man have nothing to do with who suffers.
You're wrong.
Have you ever siomply stood still while someone yammered their head off at you, never listening to a word they say? That's what most do with God. He continually speaks to people, but many of them have closed their hearts so much, they don't even recognize His voice anymore.
This is another commonly used idea that is malarky.
NO!
God is not yammering his head off to me.
If a blinding white light came down, blinded me, and a V.O.I.C.E. told me exactly what to do...like happened with Paul....then YEAH, God would be TALKING to me.
If that happens, I'll DAMN sure believe he's real.
The same things you call "God speaking", someone else calls "the collective consciousness speaking", or "Allah speaking", or the Mormon God speaking, or...I could go on for hours....
If he really S.P.O.K.E. to us, you wouldn't be mixing up who is speaking.
If I call my friend on the phone, my friend doesn't have to wonder, "Is that REALLY Wilhelm speaking to me, or just my imagination, or possibly a faulty interpretation of reality..."
Come on.
Stop hiding from the fact that God does not show himself or speak to us audibly, Christians, it's embarrassing.
That is a huge exaggeration of the truth. Given the fact that the average life expectancy of a human being is around 75 years or so, we have the majority of all that time to make the choice for Christ. If we refuse, then we've earned the fate we rightfully deserve. God doesn't send people to hell; we send ourselves by the life we have lived.
No one asked to be BORN with a fallen human nature. Our crime is BEING BORN, thanks to the actions of TWO people from thousands of years ago.
No sane, just person would hold BILLIONS responsible for the mistakes of TWO people from thousands of years ago. But that's EXACTLY what "God" does.
And How the Hell does 75 years of "crime" warrant E.T.E.R.N.A.L. punishment?!
Do you know what ETERNITY means?
NEVER. ENDING.
Madness.
That situation is entirely different. One, you're being sarcastic in trying to discredit God, which is impossible. Two, the husband in that scenario had the intention of barbarism from the very beginning; God doesn't.
Nope. You may not have the mental capacity to understand it, or may be blinded by your misguided loyalty to this fictional deity, but it's a perfect analogy for what I'm trying to say.
It's a case where a powerful authority figure is making an unfair rule, and affixing a wildly, insanely excessive punishment for lack of obedience, threatening extreme pain, and then putting all of the responsibility, should that wildly excessive punishment for disobediance to the insane rule be "warranted" ON the victim.
"I don't WANT to hurt you, but I have to hurt you if you don't _________.
SO, if I end up hurting you, it was YOUR fault, 'cause you could've just ____________ to avoid it."
The point is, HE made up the insane rule and insane punishmnet, HE is responsible for framing the whole situation in this way since he's the Creator of the Universe.
Like, if he didn't want Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good And Evil, why the FREAK did he plop it down right there before them and then leave them alone with it, without even telling them the full consequences if they ate from it?
That's cruel and extremely bad parenting by "the Father".
It will happen, and so you're still left with the obvious choice: trust God over yourself, or don't. It's up to you.
That's like asking me to trust that Superman will rescue me.
How can I trust in someone who doesn't exist?!
) stay away from the place so it won't go into meltdown mode 
but the rewards... think of the rewards - after you die! You've got to stop living in this moment, while you're alive, and instead just think about the future, after you're dead. Does that make sense?
A non-promiscuous gay couple could live together in peacful monogomy and never contract the disease. Lots of straight people got AIDS from being promiscious. If it's a punishment at all (and I don't think it is), it's against sleeping around, not orientation. 
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