(April 21, 2016 at 1:00 pm)SteveII Wrote: You conflate "wisdom of the world" (better spelled out in verse 20) with true wisdom (knowing what is really true). The passage is talking about people with the mindset like those on this forum. They think they have the latest wisdom and they "are enlightened from our bronze age beliefs". If God/Jesus turn out to be real, "the wisdom or the world" would be destroyed.
Regarding the OT story, you are back to the moral argument. You are apparently making the claim that humans have rights in relationship with God and God does not have good reasons for doing what he does. What is your support for those claims?
I don't confuse them. I simply don't accept a wisdom that would lead me to defend the indefensible just because some bronze age desert kooks said it came from god.
Since you want to defend the murder of thousands, I have said all that I intend to say about this to you. We will simply have to agree to disagree.
Good night.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
