Now most of my content revolves around the evangelical, conservative, or fundamentalist bubble, which is where I came from. I grew up Southern Baptist.

We are taught in Christian churches that God is the ultimate source of light, of goodness, of righteousness, and of love. And if that is the case, then we can read through the Bible.

We can examine God's behaviors, his words, how he treats humanity, and we can clearly see that he is the source of light and goodness and love. My deconstruction was prompted by this critical and in-depth examination of this God character that I claimed to love and have a relationship with. And I realized that I had been taught about this God in church and in Sunday school and by my parents, but there was a great disconnect between what I was being taught about God and what I was reading about him in the Bible.

And so I wanted to dive into the Bible.

I wanted to learn more about this God so that I could really know who he was, what he wanted, and how I could best serve him as a Christian. And this critical examination led me to a lot more questions than answers. And over time,

I naturally lost my belief in this God. And throughout my time here on YouTube,

I've spent a lot of time examining Bible passages that have caused me to lose my faith, Bible passages that I might disagree with or

I find to be evil, according to the definition of evil in Christianity and in the Bible.

But I've never really compiled a full list.

And so what I want to do today is I want to walk through 25 Bible passages that I find incredibly disturbing and that show me that this God of the Bible, this Christian God, is not a God of love and kindness and mercy and light and goodness and righteousness. That over and over and over again, he contradicts himself and he doesn't hold himself to the the moral standard that he holds human beings to. And so this is specifically for people who are questioning, who are deconstructing, and who are looking for a resource of a compilation of all of these times that God was not really abiding by his own moral standard and was acting in ways that I would consider evil if I believed in evil. I don't necessarily believe in evil because evil I think requires a supernatural aspect and I'm not so sure that I believe in that.

But if we're going to go with that word evil as Christians like to use it when they talk about people doing terrible things, then I think that we can take that word, we can put it up next to God, and he should be able to surpass all accusations that he is this evil that he warns Christians to fight against or to avoid. I'm going to try to quickly run through these verses so that this is not a long drawn-out video.

I might offer my own commentary or ask a lot of questions and encourage you to examine these biblical passages, encourage you to really think on them, chew on them, and see where you come at the end of this. And at the end of this video, I'm going to address what I anticipate to be some common objections to these verses.

So let's go ahead, jump right in, open up our Bibles, and let's see if we can justify calling this biblical God a good, loving, righteous God when paired with these behaviors and actions that he exhibits throughout the text. Starting in Isaiah 45.7, it says, I form the light and create darkness. I bring prosperity and create disaster.

I, the Lord, do all these things.

Some translations actually read disaster as calamity.

Some of these translations read disaster as evil.

It really depends on which one you're reading, but regardless of whether it is a disaster, evil, or calamity, it is very clear that God is claiming that he does all things.

He makes the light and the dark, the good and the bad. If God creates all things and all things come from God and everything that exists has a starting point of this God, and evil does in fact exist, then the only logical conclusion we can come to is that God created evil.

Hosea 13.16, people of Samaria must bear their guilt because they have rebelled against their God.

They will fall by the sword. Their little ones will be dashed to the ground. Their pregnant women ripped open.

I think this verse speaks for itself.

It's very clearly stating that because there are people who have done terrible things in the eyes of God, that he will curse them by making sure that their children are murdered and that pregnant bellies are ripped open. I don't know how I could justify a good, loving God with a God who almost takes pride in the murder of children because of the sins of their parents.

First Peter 5.8, be sober-minded, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. My question is who created Satan?

Who created this evil entity that prowls around like a lion?

Who banished him to earth and gives him free reign over

God's creation and over the people God created. If God is love and God created humans that he could show them love and he could be in this this warm loving relationship with humanity, why then did he create this this evil entity and then put him on earth so that he can prowl around and snatch up God's people? I think that anybody who intentionally puts someone in harm's way is probably not a very loving, good, righteous being.

Romans 5.12.

Therefore just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin and so death spread to all men because all sinned. This is a type of kin punishment, which I don't think is very loving, kind, or righteous that God would punish all people for what one person did.

Revelation 2015. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

God threatens to burn you forever if your name is not in this book. Now, how do you get your name in the book?

There are lots of different ideas about how you get your name in this book. If you walk into the

Baptist Church on a Sunday, they're just gonna tell you to come down to the altar, say your ABCs, accept that Jesus is your Savior, believe in Jesus, then confess your sins, and voila, you're saved.

Your name is written in the book, and it can't be removed.

They're also the ones that say if you walk away, you were never saved in the first place, even if you did say that prayer. So there's a lot of confusion there.

But regardless, if you don't do as God says, if you don't follow His way, if you aren't righteous, if you don't obey, you are going to be burned forever. You're gonna be thrown in a lake of fire.

It doesn't seem as though God wants you to enter into this relationship with Him because you love Him, respect Him, admire Him.

He has to instead threaten you to throw you in a lake of fire if you don't obey and do everything He says.

Because, yeah, we can claim all day that it's about righteousness, but I don't think that you can get your name put into that book if you don't actually worship and serve God as He commands throughout the entire book.

So I think it is a combination of being righteous or being saved and also loving and worshiping and serving this God, even if you think that He's not a very good God.

You still have to do it. Otherwise, you're threatened with the lake of fire.

Leviticus 20 27, a man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death.

You were to stone them. Their blood will be on their own heads.

I'm just gonna let y'all work that one out for yourself.

I don't really think that needs a lot of commentary. If you're a medium, if you're a psychic, if you happen to tell the future, you were to be stoned to death.

Exodus 22 20, whoever sacrifices to any God other than the Lord must be destroyed.

Kill those who don't worship the same God as you.

These are not passages that I would encourage people to follow and obey and I'm glad that modern

Christianity does not follow and obey this.

Deuteronomy 22 20 through 21, if however the charge is true and no proof of the young woman's virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there are men of her town that shall stone her to death.

She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house.

You must purge the evil from among you. Now, this is a continuation of earlier text. I'm trying to be kind of quick in this.

I encourage you to read the entire passage.

But let's see what this is saying here, that if you can't prove that a woman was a virgin, then she shall be stoned by the men in the town. Again, this is another verse

I'm glad people don't live out today, but it was still put in there and it was commanded by God that if you're not a virgin when you get married, you deserve to die.

Deuteronomy 22 28 through 29, if a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father 50 shekels of silver.

He must marry the young woman for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

I have heard many many rebuttals to this, many apologetics that defend this, but in any world where a woman is violated by a man in such a terrible way and then is sold to him by her father and forced to remain in a marriage with him, does not feel like a world full of love.

It does not feel like something that is in the best interest of the women.

Christians have told me that oh, this is a punishment for the man because 50 shekels was a lot of money or this was a punishment for the man because he had to take care of her. He had to care for her because, you know, she would be shamed by her community. And my next question is how come God didn't instruct the community members to come to this woman to protect her and to keep her safe and secure within their community?

Why is it that she must enter into a marriage with a man that raped her who has no, none of her best interests at heart and is sold off to this man by her father who allows her to marry her rapist and this all is commanded by God?

They say oh, well the cultural norms at the time, she would have been shamed.

No, no man would have wanted her. This helps her.

I would say maybe God should have commanded the community to rally around her and support her and lift her up and to take care of her as a woman who would have been so shamed by this.

But instead God's solution is to make sure that she has to spend every single day for the rest of her life with her rapist.

2nd Kings 2 23 through 24. While he was on his way some boys came out of the city and jeered at him. Go up bald head.

They shouted go up bald head.

The Prophet turned and saw them and he cursed them in the name of the Lord.

Then two she bears came out of the woods and tore 42 of the children to pieces.

So this was a prophet of the Lord. He was made fun of by some children.

He turns around and he curses the children and they are mauled by bears.

And this is supposedly all done in the name of God.

Since when is cursing children to be mauled violently by bears a loving thing? I would think that that would be a pretty evil thing to do to children who were just being children and making fun of someone. I don't think that making fun of someone deserves a violent death.

Especially not for a child. 1st Samuel 15 3. Now go attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them. Put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.

This is a direct command from God.

I don't think much more needs to be said. It's pretty straightforward. Go kill children.

It's not very pro-life of God, is it?

Exodus 12 29. At midnight the Lord struck down all of the firstborn in Egypt from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on the throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.

This story is often propped up as a story of redemption, of salvation. God comes in and he rescues his people from enslavement, but in order to do so he has to murder all of the firstborn of the Egyptians, including prisoners, including slaves.

I consider that very evil. Just because you're saving people from enslavement doesn't automatically make how you do it or how you go about it the right way.

And there was absolutely no reason to kill the firstborn.

There was no reason to inflict the people with all of these plagues and diseases and boils and locusts.

All of these things that would cause a lot of distress to those people, including all of the children.

But it seemed like God didn't really care about the Egyptian children. He didn't care about the Egyptian people at all, even though supposedly he is their creator.

Yet he happily, gladly killed the firstborn, including children of all of the Egyptians, just so that he could free his slaves.

Could God find no other way to do that?

Jeremiah 11 22.

Therefore, this is what the Lord Almighty says,

I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

People like to argue that I talk about, you know, prescription versus description. That sometimes it's just describing something that happened, not something that prescribed. But right here it says the Lord Almighty says I will punish them. Their young men will die by sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

He says I will kill your children.

Exodus 21 20 through 21.

Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result.

But they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two since the slave is their property.

So not only is God allowing people to be owned as property, stripping them of their humanity and giving them up to be owned, but he's providing a loophole for allowing you to beat them as long as you just don't beat them too hard, as long as they don't die.

You can beat them. You can hit them. You can hurt them. But if they recover, then everything's fine. You won't be punished.

Why isn't God telling them don't beat them? Don't hurt them. He's not.

He's saying go ahead and hurt them. Just make sure they don't die. 1st Timothy 6 1 through 2.

Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, there's no excuse for you being disrespectful.

You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts.

Jesus doesn't say, hey, don't own people as property. Or this biblical author doesn't say, hey, don't own people as property.

He says, no, no, you guys can have slaves and slaves.

Make sure you obey your masters and do whatever they say. Be a good example.

I would have loved for biblical authors to condemn slavery, but it almost seems like they want to encourage it.

And they think that by encouraging slaves to obey their masters, that somehow helps the Word of God.

Deuteronomy 20 10 through 15.

I've talked about this one a lot.

When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all of the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to the city.

When the Lord your God delivers it in your hand, put sword to all the men in it. As for the women, children, livestock, and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves.

You may use the plunder the Lord gives you from your enemies.

This is how you were to treat all cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

This couldn't be more clear.

God says, hey, make sure you go up to all of the surrounding cities.

March up to attack them.

Make them an offer of peace.

And if they decide to be peaceful with you, then enslave everyone and take all of the women and children as plunder. Now, you can work out for yourselves what you think women and children as plunder means, but I'm willing to bet it's not very good.