Why would an all-powerful, omnipresent, omniscient god want lesser beings to worship and give offerings to him? [Spirituality & Religion]

@SW-User Funny how you left out the rape part but don’t you find it pretty illogical the whole kill off humanity and nephilim thing? If he was truly an all powerful god then genocide wouldn’t have happened now would it? Also there’s the fact that archeology, zoology, paleontology ect that disproves the flood even happened. Plus there’s also this

Genesis
God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night,
on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the
sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). 1:3-5
God spends one-sixth of his entire creative effort (the second day)
working on a solid firmament. This strange structure, which God calls
heaven, is intended to separate the higher waters from the lower waters.
This firmament, if it existed, would have been quite an obstacle to our
space program. 1:6-8
Plants are made on the third day before there was a sun to drive their
photosynthetic processes (1:14-19). 1:11
"He made the stars also." God spends a day making light (before making
the stars) and separating light from darkness; then, at the end of a
hard day's work, and almost as an afterthought, he makes the trillions
of stars. 1:16
"And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth." Really? Then why are only a tiny fraction of stars visible from
earth? Under the best conditions, no more than five thousand stars are
visible from earth with the unaided eye, yet there are hundreds of
billions of stars in our galaxy and a hundred billion or so galaxies.
Yet this verse says that God put the stars in the firmament "to give
light" to the earth. 1:17
God commands us to "be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth,
and subdue it: and have dominion over ... every living thing that moveth
upon the earth." This verse is used to justify Christian opposition to
birth control, to concern for the environment, and to animal rights. The
earth was made for humans, and they can do as they damn well please with
it. 1:28
All animals were originally herbivores. Tapeworms, vampire bats,
mosquitoes, and barracudas -- all were strict vegetarians, as they were
created by God. But, of course, we now know that there were carnivorous
animals millions of years before humans existed. 1:30
God makes the animals and parades them before Adam to see if any would
strike his fancy. But none seem to have what it takes to please him.
(Although he was tempted to go for the sheep.) After making the animals,
God has Adam name them all. The naming of several million species must
have kept Adam busy for a while. 2:18-20
God's clever, talking serpent. 3:1
God walks and talks (to himself?) in the garden, and plays a little hide
and seek with Adam and Eve. 3:8-11
God curses the serpent. From now on the serpent will crawl on his belly
and eat dust. One wonders how he got around before -- by hopping on his
tail, perhaps? But snakes don't eat dust, do they? 3:14
God curses the ground and causes thorns and thistles to grow. 3:17-18
God kills some animals and makes some skin coats for Adam and Eve. 3:21
Cain is worried after killing Abel and says, "Every one who finds me
shall slay me." This is a strange concern since there were only two
other humans alive at the time -- his parents! 4:14
"And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD." 4:16
"And Cain knew his wife." That's nice, but where the hell did she come
from? 4:17
Lamech kills a man and claims that since Cain's murderer would be
punished sevenfold, whoever murders him will be punished seventy-seven
fold. That sounds fair. 4:23-24
God created a man and a woman, and he "called their name Adam." So the
woman's name was Adam, too! 5:2
The first men had incredibly long lifespans. 5:5, 5:8, 5:11, 5:14, 5:17,
5:20, 5:23, 5:27, 5:31, 9:29
The "sons of God" copulated with the "daughters of men," and had sons
who became "the mighty men of old, men of renown." 6:2-4
"There were giants in the earth in those days." 6:4
God decides to kill all living things because the human imagination is
evil. Later (8:21), after he kills everything, he promises never to do
it again because the human imagination is evil. Go figure. 6:5
God repents. 6:6-7
God was angry because "the earth was filled with violence." But didn't
God create the whole bloody system in the first place? Predator and
prey, parasite and host -- weren't they all designed by God? Oh, it's
true that according to 1:30 God originally intended the animals to be
vegetarian. But later (3:18) he changed all that. Still, the violence
that angered God was of his own making. So what was he upset about? And
how would killing everything help to make the world less violent? Did he
think the animals would behave better after he "destroys them with the
earth"? I guess God works in mysterious ways. 6:11-13
God tells Noah to make one small window (18 inches square) in the 450
foot ark for ventilation. 6:16
Noah, the just and righteous. 6:9, 7:1
Noah, the drunk and naked. 9:20-21
God opens the "windows of heaven." He does this every time it rains.
7:11
"The windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was

restrained." This happens whenever it stops raining. 8:2
Noah sends a dove out to see if there was any dry land. But the dove
returns without finding any. Then, just seven days later, the dove goes
out again and returns with an olive leaf. But how could an olive tree
survive the flood? And if any seeds happened to survive, they certainly
wouldn't germinate and grow leaves within a seven day period. 8:8-11
Noah kills the "clean beasts" and burns their dead bodies for God.
According to 7:8 this would have caused the extinction of all "clean"
animals since only two of each were taken onto the ark. "And the Lord
smelled a sweet savor." After this God "said in his heart" that he'd
never do it again because "man's heart is evil from his youth." So God
killed all living things (6:5) because humans are evil, and then
promises not to do it again (8:21) because humans are evil. The mind of
God is a frightening thing. 8:20-21
According to this verse, all animals fear humans. Although it is true
that many do, it is also true that some do not. Sharks and grizzly
bears, for example, are generally much less afraid of us than we are of
them. 9:2
"Into your hand are they (the animals) delivered." God gave the animals
to humans, and they can do whatever they please with them. This verse
has been used by bible believers to justify all kinds of cruelty to
anmials and environmental destruction. 9:2
All animals have hands. 9:5
"Be ye fruitful, and multiply." With 6 billion people on this planet, we
need to disobey God on this one. 9:7
God is rightly filled with remorse for having killed his creatures. He
makes a deal with the animals, promising never to drown them all again.
He even puts the rainbow in the sky so that whenever he sees it, it will
remind him of his promise so that he won't be tempted to do it again.
(Every time God sees the rainbow he says to himself: "Oh, yeah....
That's right. I promised not to drown the animals again. I guess I'll
have to find something else to do."). 9:9-13
The entire tenth chapter is the first of many boring genealogies (see 1
Chr.1-9, Mt.1:1-17, Lk.3:23-28 for other examples) that we are told to
avoid in 1 Tim.1:4 and Tit.3:9 ("Avoid foolish questions and
genealogies.") 10:1-32
God worries that people could actually build a tower high enough to
reach him (them?) in heaven. 11:4
God is worried again. He remembers how humans nearly became gods by
finding and eating from the tree of life (Gen.3:22). It was a close
call, but now he faces a similar threat. He begins talking to himself
again saying, "Behold, the people is one, and they all have one
language." He fears that "now nothing will be restrained from them,
which they have imagined to do." 11:6
Another boring genealogy that we are told to avoid in 1 Tim.1:4 and
Tit.3:9. ("Avoid foolish questions and genealogies.") Also note the

ridiculously long lives of the patriarchs. 11:10-32
Poor Pharaoh couldn't resist the "very fair" Sarai, and he takes her
into his harem. (She must have been well preserved, since she was about
seventy years old at the time.) 12:15
The Amalekites were smitten before Amalek (from whom they descended) was
born. Amalek was the grandson of Esau (Gen.36:12). 14:7
Abraham circumcises himself and all of the males in his household. Since
he supposedly had 318 slaves back in 14:14, poor old Abe must have been
pretty busy with his knife. But it was worth it. Penises are supremely
important to God. And he can't stand foreskins. 17:23-24
Sarah, who is about 90 years old and has gone through menopause, laughs
at God when he tells her that she will have a son. She asks God if she
will "have pleasure" with her "Lord" [Abraham], when both are so very
old. God assures her that he will return and impregnate her at the
appointed time. 18:11-14
God, who is planning another mass murder, is worried that Abraham might
try to stop him. so he asks himself if he should hide his intentions
from Abraham. 18:17
"And the Lord went his way." Now where might that be? 18:33
Lot [the just and righteous (2 Pet.2:7-8)] offers his daughters to a
crowd of angel rapers. 19:8
Lot's nameless wife looks back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt.
19:26
Lot and his daughters camp out in a cave for a while. The daughters get
their "just and righteous" father drunk, and have sexual intercourse
with him, and each conceives and bears a son (wouldn't you know it!).
Just another wholesome family values Bible story. 19:30-38
"The Lord visited Sarah" and he "did unto Sarah as he had spoken." And
"Sarah conceived and bare Abraham a son." (God-assisted conceptions
never result in daughters.) 21:1-2
These verses suggest that Ishmael was an infant when his father
abandoned him, yet according to Gen.17:25 and Gen.21:5-8 he must have
been about 16 years old. It must have been tough for poor Hagar to carry
Ishmael on her shoulder and to then "cast him under one of the shrubs."
21:14-18
Abraham names the place where he nearly kills Isaac after Jehovah. But
according to Ex.6:3, Abraham couldn't have known that God's name was
Jehovah. 22:14
God swears to himself. 22:16
Abraham needed God's help to father Isaac when he was 100 years old
(Gen.21:1-2, Rom.4:19, Heb.11:12). But here, when he is even older, he
manages to have six more children without any help from God. 25:2

Abraham lived to be 175 years old. 25:7
Ishmael lived 137 years. 25:17
Isaac's wife (Rebekah), like his mother (Sarah), was also barren. 25:21
Jacob names Bethel for the first time 28:19, before meeting Rachel.
Later in 35:15, just before Rachel dies, he names Bethel again. (I guess
the name didn't take the first time.)
Jacob goes in unto Leah by mistake. 29:23, 25
"And Jacob went in unto her. And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a
son." (These arrangements never seem to produce daughters.) 30:4
Leah, not to be outdone, gives Jacob her maid (Zilpah) "to wife." And
Zilpah "bare Jacob a son." 30:9
Rachel trades her husband's favors for some mandrakes. And so, when
Jacob cam home, Leah said: "Thou must come in unto me, for surely I have
hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night."
Presumably God, by telling us this edifying story, is teaching us
something about sexual ethics. 30:15-16
And finally, "God remembered Rachel ... and opened her womb. And she
conceived and bare a son [surprise, surprise]." 30:22
Laban learns "by experience" that God has blessed him for Jacob's sake.
"By experience" means "by divination", at least that is how most other
versions translate this verse. 30:27
God renames Jacob for the first time (See 35:10 for the first renaming).
God says that Jacob will henceforth be called Israel, but the Bible
continues to call him Jacob anyway. And even God himself calls him Jacob
in 46:2. 30:28
Jacob displays his (and God's) knowledge of biology by having goats
copulate while looking at streaked rods. The result is streaked baby
goats. 30:37-39
Jacob wrestles with god and wins. God changes Jacob's name to Israel to
signify that he wrestled with God and "prevailed." 32:24-30
Isaac lives to be 180. 35:28
Chapter 36 presents another boring genealogy that we are told to avoid
in 1 Tim.1:4 and Tit.3:9 ("Avoid foolish questions and genealogies.")
36:1-43
"And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite ... and he took
her, and went in unto her. And she conceived, and bare a son; and she
called his name Er. And she conceived again [I guess Judah must have
went in unto her again] and bare a son; and she called hi name Onan."
(It seems that the probability of having a biblical daughter is
considerably less than 50%.) 38:2-4
Joseph and his magic divining cup. 44:5, 15
Jacob lives to be 147. 47:28

Exodus
The Israelite population went from 70 (or 75) to several million in a
few hundred years. 1:5,7, 12:37, 38:26
God shows Moses some tricks that he says are sure to impress. First:
Throw your rod on the ground; it will become a snake. 4:2-9
Then grab the snake by the tail and it will become a rod again. 4:4
Second: Make your hand appear leprous, and then cure it. 4:6-7
Then, if these two don't do the trick, pour water on the ground and it
will turn into blood. (That ought to do it!) 4:2-9
God decides to kill Moses because his son had not yet been circumcised.
Luckily for Moses, his Egyptian wife Zipporah "took a sharp stone, and
cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said,
Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. So he [God] let him go." This
story shows the importance of penises to God, and his hatred of
foreskins. 4:24-26
God says that Abraham didn't know that his name was Jehovah. Yet in
Gen.22:14 Abraham names the place where he nearly kills Isaac after
God's name, Jehovah. 6:3
In complaining about his difficulty with public speaking, Moses says,
"Behold I am of uncircumcised lips." Maybe he should join Toastmasters.
6:12, 6:30
God tells Moses and Aaron that when Pharaoh asks for a miracle just
throw your rod down and it will become a serpent. So when the time
comes, Moses throws down his rod and it becomes a serpent. But the
Egyptian magicians duplicate this trick. Luckily, for Aaron, his snake
swallows theirs. (Whew!) 7:9-13
After the rod to serpent trick, God tells Moses and Aaron to smite the
river and turn it into blood. This is the first of the famous 10 plagues
of Egypt. Unfortunately, the magicians know this trick too, and they do
so with their enchantments. Shucks! Just how the river could be turned
to blood by the Egyptian sorcerers after it had been turned to blood by
Moses and Aaron is not explained. 7:17-24
The second plague is frogs. Frogs covered the land. They were all over
the beds and filled the ovens. But the Egyptian magicians did this trick
too. (Did they wait until the frogs cleared out from the last
performance before doing it again?) After the frog making contest was
declared a draw, all the frogs died and "they gathered them together
upon heaps; and the land stank." I bet. But at least it was all for the
greater glory of God. 8:2-7
Plague #3 is lice in man and beast. This is the first trick that the
magicians couldn't do. After this the magicians were convinced that
Moses and Aaron's plagues were done by "the finger of God," and they
gave up trying to match the remaining seven plagues. I guess lice are
harder to make than frogs. 8:17-19
The fourth plague is swarms of flies, continuing the frogs and lice

theme. 8:21
The fifth plague: all cattle in Egypt die. 9:6
But a little later (9:19-20, 12:29), God kills them again a couple more
times.
The sixth plague: boils and blains upon man and beast.9:9-12
The seventh plague is hail. "And the hail smote throughout the land of
Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast." 9:22-25
Eighth plague: locusts that are so thick that they "covered the face of
the whole earth." (Even over Antarctica?) 10:4-5
Ninth plague: three days of darkness. The darkness was so this that the
Egyptians couldn't even see each other. But the darkness knew how to
avoid the Israelites, and so "all the children of Israel had light in
their dwellings." 10:21-23
The Egyptians chased after the Israelites with "all Pharaoh's horses."
But according to Ex.9:3-6 there wouldn't have been any horses, since God
killed them all in "a very grievous murrain." 14:23
God removes the wheels from the Egyptians' chariots. 14:25
God divided the sea with a "blast of [his] nostrils." 15:8
God stands on a rock and tells Moses to hit the rock. Then water comes
out of it for the people to drink. God's such a clever guy! 17:6
As long as Moses the magician keeps his hand up, the Israelites are
successful in battle, but the second his hand falls, they start getting
beat. So when Moses' arm gets tired, Aaron props it up so that the
Amalakites get slaughtered. 17:11-12
"The Lord has sworn [God swears!] that the Lord will have war with
Amalek from generation to generation." So God is still fighting Amalek.
I hope Moses can still keep his hand up. 17:14-16
God tells the priests not to go up the steps to the altar "that thy
nakedness not be discovered thereon." (Skirts on stairs are a problem.)
20:26
"Thou shalt not seethe a kid in a kid in his mother's milk." 23:19
God has hornets that bite and kill people.23:27-28
God has feet.24:10
Six chapters are wasted on divine instructions for making tables,
candlesticks, snuffers, etc. 25 - 30
God decrees that priestly garments, girdles, and bonnets shall be made
"for glory and beauty." 28:2, 20, 40
Aaron must where a bell whenever he enters "the holy place" or God will
kill him. 28:34-35
God gives instructions for making priestly breeches. "And thou shalt
make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even

unto the thighs shall they reach." 28:42
God instructs the priests to burn the dung of bullocks outside the camp
as a sin offering. 29:14
God tells Moses to kill a ram and put the blood on the tip of Aaron's
right ear, and on his right thumb, and on his right big toe, and then
sprinkle the blood around the altar. Finally, sprinkle some on Aaron and
his sons and on their garments. This will make them "hallowed." 29:20-21
God tells Aaron and his sons to take the rump, fat, caul, kidneys, and
right shoulder of the ram and add a loaf of bread or two, and a wafer of
unleavened bread. Then they put the whole mess in the hands of Aaron and
his sons and they wave them before the Lord. This is a wave offering.
29:22-24
And whoever uses God's favorite perfume will be exiled. 30:37-38
God's finger. 31:18
Although God is too shy to let Moses see his face, he does permit a peek
at his "back parts." (The divine mooning) 33:23
God's name is Jealous. 34:14
Leviticus
God gives detailed instructions for performing ritualistic animal
sacrifices. such bloody rituals must be important to God, judging from
the number of times that he repeats their instructions. Indeed the
entire first nine chapters of Leviticus can be summarized as follows:
Get an animal, kill it, sprinkle the blood around, cut the dead animal
into pieces, and burn it for a "sweet savor unto the Lord." Chapters 1 -
9
When you are making your animal sacrifices, be sure to remember that
"all the fat is the Lord's." God loves blood and guts, but most
especially fat. And he doesn't like to share! 3:16
"If a soul shall sin through ignorance...." But how can someone "sin
through ignorance?" Don't your have to at least know that an act is
wrong before it can be sinful? 4:2, 13, 22, 27
If you touch any unclean thing (like a dead cow