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Introduction

Hi friends, welcome back to my channel. If you don’t already know, my name is Christy, and this channel aims to help people who are walking away or deconstructing from their Christian ideologies. Most of my content revolves around the Evangelical, conservative, or fundamentalist bubble, which is where I came from.
We are taught in Christian churches that God is the ultimate source of light, goodness, righteousness, and love. If that is the case, then we can read through the Bible, examine God’s behaviors, his words, how he treats humanity, and clearly see that he is the source of light and goodness and love.
 

Why I Began Deconstructing

My deconstruction was prompted by a critical and in‑depth examination of this God character that I claimed to love. I realized there was a disconnect between what I was taught about God and what I was reading in the Bible. I wanted to learn who he really was, what he wanted, and how to serve him. Instead, I found more questions than answers, and over time I naturally lost my belief.
 

Purpose of This Video

Today I want to walk through 25 Bible passages that I find disturbing—passages that show me the biblical God is not loving, kind, merciful, or righteous. This is for people who are questioning or deconstructing and want a resource compiling these troubling passages.
I’ll move quickly, offer commentary, and at the end address common objections.
 

1. God Creates Evil — Isaiah 45:7

“I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.”
Some translations say “calamity” or even “evil.” If God creates all things, and evil exists, then God created evil.

 

2. Murdering Children and Pregnant Women — Hosea 13:16

“The 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.”

Children dashed to the ground, pregnant women ripped open. God curses people by ensuring their children are murdered.

 

3. God Created Satan —
1 Peter 5:8

“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”

If Satan prowls like a lion, who created him? Who put him on Earth? Why create an evil entity and unleash him on humanity?

 

4. Kin Punishment —
Romans 5:12

“Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.”

All humans punished because one man sinned.

 

5. Eternal Torture —
Revelation 20:15

“Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.”

Christians disagree on how names get in the book.

 

6. Killing Mediums —
Leviticus 20:27

“A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.’”

Witches and psychics must be executed.

 

7. Killing Non‑Believers —
Exodus 22:20

“Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed.”

Anyone who worships another god “must be destroyed.”

 

8. Killing Non‑Virgin Brides —
Deuteronomy 22:20–21

“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 the men of her town 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.”

If a woman cannot prove her virginity, she must be stoned to d___.

 

9. Forcing Rape Victims to Marry Rapists —
Deuteronomy 22:28–29

“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 fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.”

A raped woman must marry her rapist and can never divorce him.

 

10. Children Mauled by Bears —
2 Kings 2:23–24

“From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. ‘Get out of here, baldy!’ they said. ‘Get out of here, baldy!’

He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.”

Children mock a prophet; he curses them; God complies by sending bears to kill 42 children.

 

11. Killing Infants —
1 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.”

Put to death men, women, children, and infants.

 

12. Killing Firstborn Children —
Exodus 12:29

“At midnight the Lord struck down all 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.”

God kills all firstborn Egyptians, including prisoners and children.

 

13. God Kills Children Again —
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.”

“I will punish them… their sons and daughters [will die].”

 

14. Beating Slaves —
Exodus 21:20–21

“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.”

You may beat your slave as long as they don’t die.

 

15. Slaves Must Obey Masters —
1 Timothy 6:1–2

“All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered. Those who have believing masters should not show them disrespect just because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve them even better because their masters are dear to them as fellow believers and are devoted to the welfare of their slaves.”

Slaves must respect their masters “so that God’s teaching is not shamed.”

 

16. Enslaving Entire Cities —
Deuteronomy 20:10–15

“When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all 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 that city. When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.

As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies.

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

If a city accepts peace, enslave everyone. If not, kill all the men and take women and children as plunder.

 

17. Buying People as Property —
Leviticus 25:44–46

“Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.

You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.”

You may buy slaves, own them as property, and pass them to your children.

 

18. God Allows Rape —
Zechariah 14:1–2

“A day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls. I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.”

God gathers nations to attack Jerusalem; women are raped.

 

19. The Bet With Satan —
Job 1

“In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil . . . He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.”

Nevertheless, God allows Satan to destroy Job’s life to win a bet.

 

20. God Regrets Creating Humans —
Genesis 6:7

“So the Lord said, ‘I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created — and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground — for I regret that I have made them.’”

God regrets making humans — the Almighty, All-Knowing, All-Loving, All-Powerful, All-Wise admits to having made a mistake — and decides to drown them all.

 

21. Horrific Curses —
Deuteronomy 28:27–29

“The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.”

Boils, tumors, madness, blindness, oppression, curses — courtesy of God.

 

22. God Sends Lying Spirits —
1 Kings 22:21–23

“Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him.’
‘By what means?’ the Lord asked.
‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,’ he said.
‘You will succeed in enticing him,’ said the Lord. ‘Go and do it.’
“So now the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The Lord has decreed disaster for you.”

God sends a deceiving spirit to lie to prophets [ie, He sanctions lying].

 

23. Killing Children for Ancestors’ Sins —
Isaiah 14:21

“Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.”

Prepare a place to slaughter his children for the sins of their ancestors.

 

24. Generational Punishment —
Exodus 34:6-7

“And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.
Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”

God punishes children to the third and fourth generation.

 

25. God Sends Delusion —
2 Thessalonians 2:9–12

“The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing.

They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.”

God sends a “powerful delusion” so people will believe a lie and be condemned.

Questions Raised by These Passages About God’s Character

• Can you worship a God who creates a system he knows will fail, then punishes people for it?
• Does goodness mean anything if God is exempt from the rules?
• How can God be love if he harms people?

 

About Free Will

• Why does God interfere with free will by sending delusions?
• Why create Satan and unleash him on humanity?

 

About Justice

• Why punish children for their parents’ sins?
• Why infinite punishment for finite actions?

 

About Omniscience

• If God knew humans would fail, why create them?
• Why create a world with evil if he could create one without it?

 

About Culture

Christians say “that was the culture,” but God gave many rules that went against cultural norms. Why not against slavery, rape, or genocide?

 

My Conclusion

I could no longer justify calling God loving while reading about violence, vengeance, cruelty, and generational punishment. Many people believe in God based on what others say, not what the Bible says.

When they encounter troubling passages, pastors offer comforting apologetics rather than real answers.

I encourage you to read the Bible yourself. Face the difficult passages. Use your intuition, logic, reason, and compassion. Decide for yourself what you believe.

 

Closing

Thank you so much for watching. If you want to support this channel, you can like, comment, or subscribe. My goal is to encourage critical thinking and help people decide for themselves what they believe so they can live their most authentic life.

 

Questions

 

God, Deity. The presenter or host is a Christian missionary or proselytizer. True or false?

Angel. According to Kristi, are religious teachings, doctrines, text all congruent?

Devil, Demon. Are God and Satan, good and evil, clear, discrete distinct dualities? Have God and Satan always been opponents?

Satan, Lucifer. Christianity serves as the basis of the Western penal codes (ie, prison sentencing, fines, probation, community service, etc). Is this correct or incorrect?

YHWH, Jehovah, The Lord. Does Christianity promote free speech, free thinking, broadmindedness, dissent, skepticism, iconoclasm; or collectivism, conformity, group-think?

Prophet. Is Christianity a patriarchal — machismo — honorific faith?

Polytheism. Christianity is kind, loving, forgiving, compassionate. What do you think?

Monotheism. Is it a coincidence that Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas, South Carolina are part of the US “Bible Belt”?

Henotheism. Is a person is righteous, upright, honest, trustworthy, polite, law-abiding, decent, God will always reward them. Is this correct or incorrect?

Agnosticism, Atheism. The presenter urges viewers to become atheists or secular. What do you think?
 
 
 
Scripture, Holy Book. How would you characterize the religious landscape in your community or society?

Sacred, Holy. Are people very religious, somewhat religious, in the middle, both religious and secular (non-religious), partly religions non-relious, secular, or agnostic, atheist?

Sacrilege. Have things changed over time?

Blasphemy, Heresy. Does religion influence a nation or culture? If yes, how? Give examples.

Apostasy. What might happen in the future?