(June 24, 2013 at 2:31 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: The bible is written about a good god. It's reasoning for him entails goodness.
I don't see where the OT makes such claims. It notes that he is a powerful god, a vengeful god, a jealous god, he is the god of armies. The NT puts a happier face on him, perhaps due to changing points of view on the nature of god or gods or because circumstances made a more benevolent god palatable to the masses. That creates a conflict when one decides to try and reconcile the god of the OT with the kinder, gentler one being offered for sale in the NT.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
