(March 26, 2019 at 1:48 pm)Drich Wrote:(March 26, 2019 at 10:34 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: But God makes the requirement that he be asked. If a requirement is involved, God's behaviour is not altruistic.
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Do you have a magical definition that differs from the dictionary definition of altruism I provided?
If you do not know here's the definition provided by google:
the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.
Now show me where being encouraged to ask in the definition above, disqualifies any altruistic activity.
I see an offer statng if you ask for help God will give it to you as a father who give his boy a loaf of bread rather than a stone. In a sense not only is God being altruistic in your selected passage he is extending his giving with the love of a father to a child.
What monster would twist that into something evil or burdensome?
If God exists and created the heavens, earth, and all earth inhabitants then God owns us. Anything God does is taking care of His possessions. It necessarily follows that YHWH is not altruistic.
Belief in a Cruel God makes a Crueler Man. Thomas Paine with minor edit crueler instead of cruel.