RE: Age of Deconversion
November 22, 2019 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2019 at 5:53 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(November 22, 2019 at 5:16 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: You're prevaricating, now, calling what you see as evil, and would not personally do, commands you would "kindly reject"..."justice" and "forgiveness". I'll afford you the courtesy and decency of your own humanity, even if you can't, or more accurately..refuse.
This brings us full circle, to your initial question. Though, in a better form. If seeing evil causes other people in your faith to fall out of faith, why doesn't it do the same to you?
I disagree with the premise of your question, since most Christians don't believe that God is evil in the first place, which does bring us full circle. I think a better question (perhaps more to your point) is why do both parties disagree on whether a specific event is evil or not? Why is it that for some people the flood is justified, but for others it is not?
We can ask the same question of things in our own society. Why is the death penalty acceptable to some people but unjustified for others; why is abortion insignificant to some but murderous to others? I'm sure most people, if they believed that abortion is murder, would be against it; but they don't. Likewise, if most Christians truly believed that the flood was evil, would be opposed to it and perhaps opposed to God as well; but they don't