(February 21, 2016 at 10:11 pm)Lek Wrote:(February 21, 2016 at 9:46 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Who pays the penalty when God succumbs to our temptations?
God doesn't succumb to our temptations. In reality God kills us all. We all die; and that's according to his will. Dying in itself isn't evil, but it does come as a result of our sins. It is evil, though, for us to disobey God's will and to commit murder. Of course, if we truly loved our neighbors as Jesus told us to do, we wouldn't commit murder.
Are you sure about that? People can tempt God whenever they want to. You really need to read your favorite ethnocentric Middle Eastern religious fairy tale.
Deuteronomy 6:16 (NKJV) = “You shall not tempt the Lord your God as you tempted Him in Massah."
Psalm 78:18 (KJV) = "And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust."
Psalm 78:41 (KJV) = "Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel."
Psalm 78:56 (KJV) = "Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:"
Psalm 106:14 (KJV) = "But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert."
Malachi 3:15 (KJV) = "And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered."
Sirach 18:23 (RSV) = "Before making a vow, prepare yourself; and do not be like a man who tempts the Lord."
Acts 15:10 (KJV) = "Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?"
