(November 20, 2012 at 11:49 pm)Darkstar Wrote: How is it that the god of the bible (Yahweh) is called a moral being?1. Short answer: Some people think he’s moral, so they call him that. You disagree. That’s the nature of morality.
2. Christians tend to accept that God has rights over us which we don’t have over each other.
3. Christians tend to accept that God is the ultimate judge, and see things like the flood or military conquests as acts of just judgment, not murder.
4. Christians tend to accept that God has higher standards than we do. God equates the thought with the deed. This is shown in several well-known places: the flood, the ten commandments, and the sermon on the mount. By that standard, most every person is guilty of crimes greatly exceeding those of what we consider to be the worst criminals.
5. Christians put God’s actions into the perspective of eternity. With an age of accountability doctrine, the young in those judgments went on to eternal happiness.
You can disagree all you want. Heck, plenty of prisoners think their treatment was unfair and gripe about it. That generally doesn’t get them out of prison though.
