@ DocReb: Welcome back and thanks for the answers.
Response to #1:
Well now mate, long ago I asked "the bloke upstairs" for help, and I never received it. I cannot read it as you suggest without his help. Over a decade of my life passed and I never heard any voice in my head. This was immediately after I "was saved". As I say, over ten years went by and no response from him/her.
Response to #2:
I'm afraid I don't follow you on this one. In your response that you labeled #1, you agree with Thomas Aquinas' little ditty that I used that YHWH is one, yet YHWH is 3. You then tell me they are 3 seperate entities. Yet before you agreed with this, you said that all 3 are, in fact, YHWH (One). I see roughly what you are saying, but YHWH committing suicide to himself, for himself, seems a bit sick and twisted, not to mention that totally blows the "If you commit suicide, you go to Hell." bit all to pieces. Totally illogical if you ask me mate.
Response to #3:
I see.
Response to #4:
Oh contrare my friend, YHWH and Allah (Yallah?) are quite similar. I assume as a man of the book, you have read the Bible from front to back? Yes? If so, when you read the Qur'an and you compare it to the Old Testament, the two are identical. Both are vengeful, both are malevolent, and both have an appetite for seared flesh it would seem, from all the civilisations the two of them wiped out.
- The Muslim deity, Allah, is a god after the likeness of god of the Jews. (Ehlohim). Now if I remember correctly, you agreed that the god of the Jews and the god of the Christians (YHWH) are one and the same, because Christianity builds on Judaism. Christianity was also quite prevalent when Islam was founded. (622 Common Era ; or AD if you prefer the term). The founder, Muhammad, deplored the polytheism he saw in Mecca, and sought to found a monotheistic religion in the likeness of the Judaism. I'm not sure whether you have compared the two, but for all the both of them bicker, they sure do have a lot in common!
--On the "works" bit, is not Catholicism the same?
---As for your omnipotent and omniscience argument, I have a wee ditty to ask you that I heard back in the UK: "Can omniscient God ,who knows the future, find the omnipotence to change his future mind?"
It hasn't escaped logicians and myself that omniscience and omnipotence are mutually incompatible. If your god YHWH is omniscient, he must already know how he is going to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence. But that means he can't change his mind about his intervention, which means that he is not omnipotent.
---- As I said before, I would like to take the Judeo-Christian god at his word, but I cannot bring myself to do so. I'm afraid verses like the following just disgust me so much that I cannot believe in him or worship him due to the "evilness" (pardon the borrowing of that word please, mate) that I see. All of the verses I am about to quote you are from the NIV Bible:
1. Exodus 31:12-15
12 Then the LORD said to Moses, 13 "Say to the Israelites, 'You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy. 14 " 'Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death; whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from his people. 15 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.
2. 1 Samuel 6:19-20
19 But God struck down some of the men of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy [a] of them to death because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. The people mourned because of the heavy blow the LORD had dealt them, 20 and the men of Beth Shemesh asked, "Who can stand in the presence of the LORD, this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here?"
3. Isaiah 13:15-18
15 Whoever is captured will be thrust through;
all who are caught will fall by the sword.
16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses will be looted and their wives ravished.
17 See, I will stir up against them the Medes,
who do not care for silver
and have no delight in gold.
18 Their bows will strike down the young men;
they will have no mercy on infants
nor will they look with compassion on children.
4. 2 Kings 2:23-24
23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" 24 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 youths.
And before you dismiss this as Old Testament "unenlightened" acts, I might remind you..... :
----> Luke 16:17
17It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
(Clearly the Old Testament is to be abided by until the end of human existence itself. No one other then Jesus said so.)