RE: On Hell and Forgiveness
September 25, 2018 at 10:59 am
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2018 at 11:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 25, 2018 at 10:01 am)SteveII Wrote: You conflate two things: God's actions and our moral reasoning/duties (for which you want us to judge God's actions). They are not the same thing.
That being said, God, conceived as the paradigm of Goodness, could never kill innocent babies for no reason. It would be an impossible conception of God and therefore describing a being who is not God.
-and yet...god does this, in magic book. Repeatedly. God tells his troops to do this, as well. More generally, god does this in the world by the very nature of his creation...daily.
Classical theism would tell you to toughen up and stop making god out to be such a babyloving pussy. God does what god wants with all the bay-bees..they're his property. He can make more if he wants, and he can cull as many from the herd as he sees fit, for any reason or for no reason.
Ironically, it's -your- judgement of that sort of god that has you re-imagining him..since, in your estimation, the god of your magic book isn't a god.
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