(February 24, 2021 at 6:51 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: We're eight pages in, and everyone's missing the point that God HAS lied.
Boru
And also the point is that omnipotence is not possible, that it contradicts itself, like God not being able to create such a heavy rock that he can't lift; that everything happens according to God's plan and also people having free will, etc.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
