(September 17, 2013 at 10:11 am)John V Wrote: And how do you know that those people never sinned?
You think every first-born child in Egypt was over the age of accountability?
(September 17, 2013 at 10:11 am)John V Wrote: Yes, most hold that those that die below the age of accountability go to heaven. That's hardly murder.
Best Christian argument in favor of abortion I've ever heard.
(September 17, 2013 at 10:11 am)John V Wrote: If omniscience means that all of our thoughts and actions are predetermined, then we are not autonomous beings and we have no rights. This is a self-defeating argument. Even if you win the battle, you lose the war.
If we don't have free will and still have suffering, you've thrown away the main Christian argument in justification of the Problem of Evil. If we don't have free will, then our suffering is pointless, heaven and hell are pointless, and God is merely a powerful child playing with an anthill.