(June 9, 2014 at 6:22 am)Tonus Wrote: But what if there is a god, and it isn't any of the ones we hear about? What if he actually is that brilliant intellect that theists think their god is? What if his explanations for the way things are make pretty good sense? What if what he is asking you to do really does work out for the best for everyone involved? What then?
I would expect that whatever problems would be solved by the murder, could be solved in virtually infinite other ways by a supreme intellect.
The problem with Christians is that they want to attribute maximal stats to their god, but can't explain why God's problem-solving abilities in the Bible never exceed those of a somewhat clever animal or primitive human being.