(April 22, 2017 at 4:44 pm)Lek Wrote:(April 22, 2017 at 4:24 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I realize that our logic is flawed, but it's the only one we have access to. You decided at some point that he was good, somehow. Either by logic, or just believing what you were told. If god is real, and he tells us he's good by definition, why believe him? It's in his nature? Says who? Him? You see the flaw in that, right? Everyone you ever talk to is going to say they're right about everything they have an opinion about. If they do something that contradicts that, and beat you up when you disagree, it doesn't make them right. It just makes them a thug.
I don't believe in Zeus. I think the many of the deeds attributed to him are evil, but I don't spend any time expounding on how evil he is, and I don't use that as a reason to not believe in him. If he really is a god then I would expect him to operate with different logic than myself. A god who knows all things makes his decisions from that perspective. He makes his decisions based on their eternal implications.
So you see your god as all good but when he does bad things then it's not to be questioned, but at the same time he's better then all other gods. Why don't you use same logic with the Greek gods: they were all good, but their bad deeds should not be judged by, as you call it "our standards".
Not to mention that Christians believe "our standards" came from same god that apparently is not to be judged by them.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
