RE: How do religious folks reconcile violent concepts in "peaceful" Abrahami...
April 14, 2017 at 1:05 pm
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2017 at 1:06 pm by SteveII.)
(April 14, 2017 at 11:53 am)Industrial Lad Wrote:(April 14, 2017 at 11:44 am)SteveII Wrote: The Muslim example does not apply. This is a decision God made (with the benefit of omniscience) and God carried out.
God would be aware of the counterfactuals of appearing to them and entreating them to turn from their wicked ways. It appears wiping them all out and starting with a new generation that would honor God was the most moral thing to do. If God weighs all the future lives, doing nothing would result in far far more people in Hell, perhaps an intervention would reduce that number, but again, eternal perspective.
So basically god did the right thing because he always does the right thing because he's god. Like Li'l Bush. "Circular reasoning. Means it works."
No, God does the right thing because one of his attributes is that he is morally perfect. Being an attribute of God, there is no choice to be made (it is necessarily so), so no circular reasoning or Euthyphro dilemma.
