(July 25, 2015 at 10:17 am)Pyrrho Wrote:People do all of those things everyday because their "leaders" tell them to do it. And when they don't do as told they are punished, sometimes with death. So you can bet that if a genuine god creature told people to do those things people would do them in a flash without a nanosecond of thought.(July 25, 2015 at 5:12 am)robvalue Wrote: Did he? OK I missed that, I'll check it out.
Yes, that's a decent answer. It seems to suggest that God is not the sole author of morality, though. If "following your heart" produces a different result to simply doing what God says, this points to a separate source. And if you'd listen to it over God who is standing right in front of you, clearly God is a minor contributor.
Can't have it both ways.
It means he thinks Abraham and the Israelites are assholes. Either that, or his heart would tell him to murder, rape, etc., whenever god commanded it.
I agree that if you follow your heart rather than God, then God is not the arbiter of right and wrong, and God is pretty much irrelevant to morality.
The God character of the Bible was simply the series of men who ruled the dominant Middle Eastern empires in ancient times. People did as they were told to do or else they were killed. And when the leader was an insane nut people were always being killed.
Imagine ISIS.
