Not really trying to answer anybody - just having a bit of a go...

Not really trying to answer anybody - just having a bit of a go at this.

Couple of points are always coming through loud and clear.

First off - the suffering of the innocent. We live in the physical realm and are therefore subject to the luck of the draw. Physical existence even for the most fortunate leads to ageing, death and decay. No one gets out alive. The test of our humanity is how we cope with and care for those less fortunate. One can only imagine that some form of compensation will be part of the Divine justice. That being said, even with the global population as it is, there would be enough to go around if the famous 1% of the obscenely wealthy were tipped up-side-down and had their pockets shaken out. Basically we do it to ourselves. Physical existence is your one brief moment to prove who you are.

Secondly - the murderous God of the bible. This stuff was written as liturgies that not only had to inform but entertain. Just like the TV evangelist clowns today who weep, gnash their teeth and help God out every time He stumbles. It was written by Jews who are the worlds best story tellers. Just look who runs Hollywood. They have a tradition called Midrash. As stories are retold they become embellished. So God gets more smitting, more angry, less tolerant, vengeful. It's a story. Put it aside because we have moved on. It's just a bunch of old guys with arthritis having a rant.

Proof of God is everywhere and nowhere. Possible proofs.

The laws that govern energy and matter never change, remaining in a state of perfection. Hard to imagine (it just happened) being able to hold the laws of nature in such a perfect, balanced and constant state.

Life itself is something outside of physical existence. Even if it can be traced back to self-replicating RNA. Something produced a spark of life and enabled it to find a place connected to the physical world.

Death itself. Evolution can transmogrify a creature when a need arises. Why then did not evolution select death out of the equation. If happenchance enabled the universe to form, and all living creatures to evolve, why did it also select the inevitability of death. Surely life is harder to make than death.

I don't believe in a personal or knowable God. Whatever is written about God is meaningless when the truth is impossible to know. A finite mind trying to grasp the infinite is impossible. Whatever Essence set in motion and continues to keep in motion every vibrating atom in this universe, is not part of it, has never entered into it, and yet is somehow intimately engaged. The instant the engagement is off everything will fly into chaos.