(May 4, 2022 at 11:04 pm)h311inac311 Wrote:(May 4, 2022 at 10:49 pm)Helios Wrote: Unless the devil created himself and the devil is more powerful than god. God is without an excuse...
Lets say that someone has a knife and starts chancing a woman through the streets, and there is only one witness, a 6ft tall man who is a UFC heavyweight champion. Presumably he could defeat this knife wielding foe. But for one reason or another chooses not to. In your justice system should this fighter be charged with murder? And would the man holding the knife get off scott free?
That's not a very good analogy to the Job story. A better one would be that a man with a knife meets a UFC fighter and says, 'See that woman over there? I bet I can make her scream if I chase her with this knife.' The UFC fighter says, 'Well, I could clearly stop you from doing that, but since I'd be interested to see what a screaming, terrified woman looks like, I'll just stand here and watch.' Since terrorizing someone is a criminal act, and conspiring to do so is a criminal offense, then yes - the fighter should be charged as a co-conspirator, along with the knife-wielder.
To get back to the Job story, God, by his allowing the tormenting of Job - with full knowledge of what would ensue - is every bit as guilty as Satan. Job had committed no crimes against his fellow man, no transgressions against God. God and Satan conspired to torture an innocent man for shits and giggles.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
