RE: Theists, some questions
November 14, 2013 at 6:02 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2013 at 6:03 pm by henryp.)
What if Obama said you should eat your children, would you do it? If not, you must not trust Obama!!!!!
What's missing in this brilliant quandary, is Obama actually asking people to eat their children. I assume this is about the Abraham story. Putting aside the fact all respected theologians have long since abandoned biblical fundamentalism, God doesn't even have him Kill the kid at the end of the story.
The simple reality is, if a 'God' went around making people kill their own children, the nature of that God wouldn't match the nature of the God that generic Christians believe in. I think the vagueness of using "God" to describe all single all-powerful deity situations allows the issue to be confused a bit.
What's missing in this brilliant quandary, is Obama actually asking people to eat their children. I assume this is about the Abraham story. Putting aside the fact all respected theologians have long since abandoned biblical fundamentalism, God doesn't even have him Kill the kid at the end of the story.
The simple reality is, if a 'God' went around making people kill their own children, the nature of that God wouldn't match the nature of the God that generic Christians believe in. I think the vagueness of using "God" to describe all single all-powerful deity situations allows the issue to be confused a bit.
