SetiAlpha6:
I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to. Perhaps you're thinking about the general problem of why your God allows great evil in His Creation. I notice you have no answer to that. Something for you to think about.Really?
Really? ! ! !
Why then, are you constantly framing God as being evil, in your posts?
Straw men arguments? Again, I'm puzzled as to what you're talking about. Have I misrepresented your views in some way?I love you but it would be exhausting to try and take down all of your straw men arguments, or to say no, and here is why, to all of them, and then wait for you to build yet another straw man to exhaust me with.
Of course. Readers can judge for themselves how intellectually honest you are (or not). Part of that judgment will depend, no doubt, on how much you avoid addressing the difficult questions. I would have expected that somebody who is so dogmatic in telling other people how the world is would have been able to deal with reasonable questions about his beliefs.I do not have to respond to all of them or even any of them...
Certainly it's within God's ability, if he is all he is cracked up to be. As for rights, in your God's world, where he gets to dictate all the rules, rights are irrelevant. God is an absolute dictator. You've told me, remember, that God gets to decide what is and isn't moral, absolutely, and that human beings don't get to ask questions, or else!Judgment of His own creation is exclusively God’s ability and His right.
There are a lot of examples of that kind of thing in the bible. The biblical God - especially the Old Testament version - is about as petty a tyrant as any human dictator.Do you know of any occurrences of God’s wrath where His love for one was not the root cause of His judgment for another.
Is this about killing the first-born sons of Egypt? Are you defending that action of God's? Do you think it was fair for your God to take out his wrath on innocent children - to punish them for the sins of their fathers or earlier ancestors?Where one party abused another party, sometimes for centuries. And so He removed them from the earth.
So your God, in his infinite power, could not come up with a viable solution that didn't involve killing innocent people? Is that what you're telling me?Basically because nothing else would protect the abused.
And this justifies the killing of babies, among others, does it? I thought you said all life is precious. Not the enemies of Israel, though?Where the abusers, even an entire nation, would never repent, even after hundreds of years of sending warnings to them.
Then I'm sure you'll explain the love your God showed when he killed all those innocent children.As far as I understand, His wrath is always rooted in love. Seems strange, but appears to be accurate to me.
Can't you see the problem for yourself? Really? Is this what your religion does to you? Does it blind you to obvious injustices?Show me how I am wrong.
Thanks so much, but I'd rather have an honest discussion with you than be subjected to your dismissive flattery.Your heart is right on target!
Your heart is very beautiful!!!