(March 31, 2016 at 11:30 am)Won2blv Wrote:(March 30, 2016 at 8:16 am)robvalue Wrote: Indeed.
The problem with this is that God should be able to accomplish any goals any way he wants, so that if the method involves killing, he chose to use that as a method. Otherwise, he's a lot less than all powerful. A lesser deity would be an awful lot easier to defend, for this reason.
Just putting all your trust in anything, without ever questioning or thinking for yourself, is dangerous. That goes for real and imaginary things.
Similarly, saying "God can do whatever he likes and it's fine by me" is surrendering your humanity.
These are general comments, I'm not aiming them at anyone.
I think that one misplaced idea is that god cannot be loving and justify killing people. So if it is absolutely impossible to be loving and justify killing then the biblical god could not possible be moral and loving. I don't believe this. I believe that the death penalty is wrong because of the possibility of even one person being killed unjustly with no chance of retribution. This is in spite of the fact that I do believe some people deserve death. But I would rather 100 deserving death penalties be missed for the 1 undeserving one to be saved. So if God has perfect wisdom, justice, and knowledge, then I believe that he could justifiably use killing as a method of accomplishing his purpose.
This is just me saying that hypothetically I could trust someone like that. Trusting in god doesn't have to be based off incredulity. Maybe someone applies god suggestions on how to live life and trusts god based off of good results. Its a straw man to say that all christians just think, "god can do whatever he likes and its fine by me" and that it includes immoral unjustified actions
God breaks commandment 6. If god requires evil for his purpose, as you claim, "then I believe that he could justifiably use killing as a method of accomplishing his purpose", he isn't all good, as the bible claims. (PSALMS 136:1)
