(March 30, 2016 at 6:14 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:(March 30, 2016 at 10:36 am)SteveII Wrote: I believe it probably happened.
However, what is your point? That God doesn't exist because he commanded such a thing? That does not follow. That God is a monster? To support that, you would have to assume there was no reason for these actions. Can you do that? Can you put yourself in God's head?
Related to this, why do you think God is under some kind of obligation to extend or preserve life? There is no basis for thinking that. Do you think humans have "rights" in relation to God? That would be to vastly misunderstand what it means to be God.
Lastly, I won't comment on your friend, but do you really think these issues have not been brought up before (especially among Christians) for literally thousands of years? Do you really believe that there is not a ten thousand pages written for every objection you can come up with? Your arguments are not new and they are not persuasive to someone who allows for the possibility of God's existence and really tries to understand how it might all work together.
EDIT: I found this if you want to educate yourself to the oppositions thoughts on the subject: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/did-god-c...-testament
From that piece of drivel you posted:
Quote:The framework for my ethical theory is what is called divine command morality. What is that? That is an ethical theory which says that our moral duties are constituted by God’s commands. It is God’s commandments to us that give us right and wrong; that determine what we should and should not do. Therefore, if God issues you a command to do something, that becomes your moral duty and it would be wrong for you not to do it.
This is an absolutely hideous way to think.
Time to get out the serpents and strychnine . . .
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
