RE: What beliefs would we consider reasonable for a self proclaimed Christian to hold?
March 14, 2018 at 10:04 pm
(March 14, 2018 at 7:05 pm)Astreja Wrote:(March 14, 2018 at 6:37 pm)He lives Wrote: Why do parents have rules? Because they love you. Why do parents watch their children? Because they love them. Why do parents punish disobedient children? Because they love them. Why do parents encourage children to be the best they can be? Because they love them. Why do parents protect their children? Because they love them. God is a parent. Sometimes parenting is hard. A child may have to die in order to save others.
Astreja Wrote:I would never, under any circumstances, cause the death of my own child to save others. For a god to resort to such a sorry and despicable tactic is sufficient in my eyes to disqualify it as a source of goodness and love.
Quote: So if you had a son that was going to blow up a million people and the only way to prevent it was to kill him, you would let him blow them up?
Astreja Wrote:The only circumstances under which I am prepared to take a life is a direct, real-time takedown of someone who is putting me or other people in imminent danger (for instance, someone attacking with a lethal weapon). Even so, I would rather disable and disarm than kill.
Quote:I agree with this course of action, but not every situation is the same.
Astreja Wrote:Your alleged god, supposedly capable of creating an entire universe, is without excuse. Substitutionary atonement and hell are both epic moral failures.
Quote:God sacrificed his son to give everyone else on earth the opportunity to return to him. Jesus willingly became that sacrifice. It was the only possible way. However I am sure that you don't understand why this was the only way. That is because you don't understand the laws of the universe. Suffice it to say that God can not break his word.
