(June 21, 2013 at 2:41 am)Ryantology Wrote: 1: Under which circumstances, precisely, would you consider it acceptable to carry out the violent mass killing of every infant and child in a city?
If God were still engaging in direct revelation (which He is not, revelation is closed), and He directly commanded it.
Quote: 2: Is it just to kill a person because they live in the same place as a person who committed a sin, if they had no direct or conscious involvement in it?
If God commands it, we know it is just.
Quote: 3: If we are judged guilty, and can be punished for our sins even before we commit them, how is this consistent with the notion of free will being the choice between God and sin?
I reject the notion of free will, but nobody is judged for sins prior to committing them. We all enter this world sinners deserving of death and punishment, anything we receive other than that is purely God’s grace. God withholding His grace is not unjust because grace is freely given and taken away by only God.
Quote: 4: If there is any possible alternative to purposefully killing a person in order to achieve whatever imaginable end may involve doing so, in other words, if you can do what you need to do just as easily regardless of whether or not you kill that person, is it just to kill them anyway?
If God commanded it, yes. We all deserve death, so God giving someone what they deserve cannot be unjust.
There you go, I didn’t pull any punches, I hope you appreciate that.
