(April 25, 2010 at 12:26 am)Zen Badger Wrote: So how can they then claim to know the will of god?
Which is a phrase that gets trotted out on a regular basis.
Well what they pretty much say is that God's will is expressed in the Bible literally, however when he does things that dont fit in with his description in the New Testament (all-loving God as opposed to the Old Testament's hardcore slaughterer God) they just say he works in mysterious ways...
Its terrible because it closes off all the things we could say about God being unefficient, incompetent, or plain racist.