(January 22, 2016 at 2:21 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:(January 22, 2016 at 2:06 pm)athrock Wrote: Is there any chance you will actually interact with the arguments presented in the OP rather than make an emotional appeal that fails to undermine them?
The key for you will be to demonstrate that God's actions are inconsistent with His character.
I look forward to your first attempt.
I'm not really interested in the character of your fictional god. I'm interested in the character of the sort of people who feel the need to justify or explain away the alleged actions of this literary figure. Do you believe that Yahweh ordered the killing of Amalekite infants (those unregenerate sinners!)? If so, am I to assume that you would have taken part in that barbarity if you were alive then and believed yourself under orders? If not, why not?
I'll repeat what I wrote to Whateverist:
As for bashing the skull of an infant, you are proposing a test of faith - like Abram being asked to sacrifice Isaac. I would rather doubt myself and what I thought I heard from God than to be wrong and take an innocent life.
But if I had just spent 40 years wandering through the desert eating manna that fell from the sky every morning, drinking water that came from a rock, watching the Jordan river part so that I could pass through on dry land, and seeing the walls of Jericho fall at the blast of my trumpet, then yes, I could probably be inclined to think that I must now kill all of the those that God commanded me to kill.
God gave His people many great signs in order to form them into a people that believed and obeyed.
How would you have responded if you had seen all of those wonders?
