(January 24, 2016 at 10:42 pm)athrock Wrote:(January 24, 2016 at 9:16 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: A Perfect Teacher would find no problem in so doing, don't you think?
Ever try to teach someone to play the guitar who simply wasn't going to get it? Tone deaf...no rhythm...one arm...unwilling to practice...whatever. Now, multiply this times millions of people who made up the nation of Israel. The problem isn't always with the teacher.
It's a challenge to find that point at which the strongest, most willing and eager are challenged while the weakest are not discouraged. Looking at the history of Israel and Christianity, I think God has found the right balance.
And who, pray tell, made those students?
Your analogy would be apt if I had made those students in an Act of Special Creation. That condition not obtaining, your objection is stripped of value.
Quote:God expresses love in the Old Testament while Jesus re-affirms the existence of hell in the New. They are fully compatible with some differences in emphasis.
With a good concordance, I think you could find examples of all of God's attributes in both testaments.
And I think that claims of these differences are overblown by people who WANT discrepancies...so they find them where they really do not exist.
I was asking about his timeless morality.
But since you brought it up, do you consider your God's expression of love by killing all but eight humans a loving attribute, really?
I'm a father. If my son were to misbehave, would you think it loving if I killed him as punishment? Would you think it moral?
If so, you're the last person to be delivering lectures on morality. And if not, you've just bought into moral relativity.
