RE: Christian Looking For Debate
November 1, 2011 at 2:50 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2011 at 2:52 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(October 30, 2011 at 4:31 am)SeekerOfTruth Wrote: This is true. In the "calamity" translation God is still the one who created it. However this brings to question: Is creating the calamity a moral evil?
Well to this I would ask: Is slapping your child's hand when they touch something they aren't supposed to? Sure it's a calamity to slap your child's hand, but it's not a moral evil because its discipline. In those verses the calamities happened because people were doing stuff they weren't supposed to, in this sense God is slapping their hands.
If we felt a slapping sensation on our hand whenever we did certain things, most of us would get the message. Dumping lava and ash on a city leaves us at a bit of a loss in figuring out exactly who was getting their hand slapped, and what for. It's not discipline when you have to guess what you're being punished for, it's abuse.
(October 30, 2011 at 5:28 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(October 30, 2011 at 4:31 am)SeekerOfTruth Wrote: Evil, in sense doesn't even exist it's simply a lack of good.
How is this different from saying 'good doesnt exist its just a lack of evil'
They are both relatively abstract concepts liable to change over time.
It was once considered 'good' to kill women suspected of witchcraft for example and if you go to glastonbury the place is full of people thinking they are witches and they are mosttly quite nice, deluded but quite nice.
Actually, 'lack of evil' is a pretty good definition of 'good'. Good is not suffering, not being afflicted, not being agrieved, not being sad, not being mutilated, not being in pain, not being deprived...sounds pretty good to me. Isn't reducing evil the main way we promote good?
