RE: Four questions for Christians
July 3, 2013 at 5:55 pm
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2013 at 6:01 pm by Ryantology.)
(July 3, 2013 at 5:27 pm)Consilius Wrote:(July 3, 2013 at 5:43 am)Ryantology Wrote: God's rule suggests that the tiniest sin makes one deserving of death, even if the sin will be committed in the future. This makes it absolutely impossible to not commit what is, in God's perspective, capital crimes. This is alien to humans, all save for spectacularly insane ones.Can you back up that claim?
For the wages of sin is death...
Appealing to an inherently paradoxical and terribly flawed concept of predestination was fr0d0's way of explaining how it was a good thing that Amalekite children were put to the sword. Whether or not this is legit, you really have to take up with him, because I think it's all bunk and there's no consensus within the Christian religion on almost anything.
If it is the last sentence you wish to have verified, there lacks any example I am aware of in human history which prescribed the death penalty for every imaginable crime, including thoughtcrimes or crimes which were not committed in the past (after all, how could such a society sustain itself more than a few months at best?). Humans have a distressing tendency towards violence and revenge masquerading as justice, but as God never bothers justifying or explaining most of the rules he invented, and Christians apparently are okay with that, but there aren't many people outside of mental hospitals (or who really belong in one) who view, as just, a system in which virtually everything you do is a crime and every crime deserves death.
