God's will.....who needs it?

[Ryft]

Well said, Arcanus. Back when I was a theist, my interpretation of God from my studies of the Bible wasn't all feely-touchy-nice, and certainly was above what mere humans considered 'good' and 'right', which I have long held as relative terms. Yes, God aced 151 people and allowed one to live. Does that make the survivor special? Well...

1. If moral terms are relative, then your interpretation of God's character is relative. Ergo, God is not morally reprehensible; rather, he merely offends your feelings. If moral terms are relative, then they are biographical, in which case your position says something about you and nothing about God.

2. It makes the survivor 'special' if being selected to survive death is better than being selected to die.

I would quote you and talk about specifics, but it would be like searching out specific noodles in a plate of spaghetti and I've already had lunch.

With your permission, I'd like to add that to my sig.

Have you even considered the obvious, which is that God probably doesn't exist?

This is the fallacy known as Complex Question, which is in the question-begging family. "You commit this fallacy when you frame a question so that some controversial presupposition is made by the wording of the question" (link).