(May 24, 2018 at 3:20 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: god must be exempt from the murder clause. god has killed humans (according to your stories) so it is in gods nature to murder.
Three things. First, murder is the unlawful killing of a human being by another, so...on that score alone God cannot murder. Second, God has the right to judge or show mercy to anyone and everyone, so his decision to take a person's life is a judgement or in some cases, a mercy (because of the eternal soul thing). Third, God does not give commands to himself, so his actions are guided by his nature. That nature (the paradigm of goodness) would ensure sufficiently moral justification if he did decide to take a life.
