RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 22, 2013 at 8:01 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2013 at 8:05 am by John V.)
(September 21, 2013 at 10:18 pm)Beta Ray Bill Wrote: But you worship an angry, jealous deity. I would rather believe in a god of love, then one who self-admittedly deals with human emotions. If any modern country ran around wiping out as many cities as the Jews did "for God," everyone would unite to stop them, then prosecute them for war crimes. No war is justified, and any god that says they are is not benevolent.You give criteria for a just war in one breath, and in the very next say that no war is justified.
(September 22, 2013 at 7:51 am)Tonus Wrote: Think about it. A being of such immense power compared to us that we may as well consider him omni-everything. To call ourselves gnats in comparison is to overstate our own worth. He has crafted a universe so large that we can define it numerically but the scale is simply too big for us to truly comprehend; but he spun it right off of his figures the way we'd make a clay pot. Our Sun, just one of possibly trillions that he had made, could wipe us and our world out with a large enough flare. And we think we have the right to judge him..Fixed that for you.
That strikes me as utterly nonsensical.