Percy writes:
One doesn't have to be an atheist to reject the God of Christian evangelicals.
Christian evangelicals tend to take scripture literally unless context allows otherwise. The less literal one takes scripture, the more one rejects what is written about God so as to interject one's personal views.
In understanding God, majesty and designer of the Universe, one must consider what is best for the Universe at large relative to truth, justice, sin, righteousnes and judgement.
Perhaps tiny Planet Earth, tucked deep into one galexy among the billions is where the forces of evil in the universe will be dealt with. Revelation 12 seems to indicate so, war being waged in the heavens/cosmos between good and evil. Satan and his angelic army is cast to the earth, having great wrath, soon to be consigned to the Lake of Fire forever.
We will never fully understand God aside from the mystery of good and evil. He has a messianic kingdom planned for Planet Earth which explains why he needed to
sanctify a land and city for that to be. Thus the calling out of Abraham into Caanan and all pertaining to that bloody history.
Relative to Jehovah, the Biblical god who is a jealous god, sooner or later, deception and false gods etc become dangerous and bloody, be it Christian deception as per the Dark Ages or otherwise as per Islam and
isms such as secularistic communism, etc. History seems to attest to that.
BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.