RE: The Immorality of God - Slavery in the Old Testament
January 24, 2016 at 3:41 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 3:41 pm by athrock.)
(January 24, 2016 at 12:36 pm)robvalue Wrote: God made slavery possible, and he knew that it would happen. Therefor, god made sure slavery was inevitable.
Flawed thinking. Just because God knew that something was possible, it does not mean that He made it inevitable.
Quote:Trying to make excuses for an all-powerful being doesn't wash. If he wants things a certain way, then they are that way.
Hardly.
Quote:Free will is no excuse, since we have precious little of it anyway. We don't have the opportunity to do hardly anything that we could possibly imagine, including exploring the ~100% of the universe that is here "for us". We have to bust our guts and go mental just to get to the nearest crappy rock.
Well, that's an interesting position. If God doesn't exist, then how is your free will limited (apart from laws designed to protect the neighborhood from nut cases)?
Quote:Yet we all have the option to grab and rape a kid.
At the very least, you can want to rape the kid even if you are unable to do so for any number of reasons. So, yeah. God has given you that freedom.
Quote:This is not a reasonable set of options for someone who cares about human happiness. In what way does offering rape of kids do anyone any good? If it was never possible, never something we'd ever even think of, who exactly would miss it? God would, presumably. And while the kid is being raped, he loses his free will.
Not exactly. The rape victim or the prisoner in a jail cell has lost his freedom, but not his free will. There is a critical distinction between these concepts.
