RE: 10 Questions Biblical Literalists Cannot Honestly Answer
June 19, 2017 at 3:01 pm
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2017 at 3:02 pm by John V.)
(June 19, 2017 at 2:45 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I think that you misjudge the certainty of others by reference to your own alleged doubts. I can tell you, with certainty, that of all the ways I might react to the creator of the universe....killing my kid.... isn't one of them. Even on the face of this, it's ludicrous. Many contend that they -have- had a divine experience..and yet they managed not to kill their children on account of it.
You don't know what you would do if confronted by god. It's ridiculous to say you can be certain.
Quote:IMO, this constant pious theater
It wasn't pious of me to say that I would probably not obey God.
Quote:has more to do with your stated opinion of the perception of relative faithlessness involved in simply accepting that you, like every atheist who's ever asked you this question..would not kill your kid.
Huh? I freely admit that I don't have the faith of Abraham.
Quote:That you, like every atheist who's ever asked you the question, find the divinely issued command horrid even as a hypothetical.
Sure. That was the point in proposing it to Abraham as a test of faith.
Quote:You don;t want to have that conversation, and so provide a long wheedling series of non-answers and feigned ignorance as cover.
See above. I have no problem with a conversation when you actually get to your points. That just takes awhile sometimes.
