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Is God Moral or Immoral
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RE: Is God Moral or Immoral
(May 12, 2010 at 2:45 am)AngelThMan Wrote:
(May 12, 2010 at 12:42 am)Scented Nectar Wrote:
(May 12, 2010 at 12:36 am)AngelThMan Wrote: I can add something. He's taking the bible too literally.
Even if the lesson's examples in the bible are not literally true, would it make the morals of the lessons themselves good ones?
Those lessons are there to teach certain values. Each individual passage has its meaning, and is there for a reason. To try to break it down and question whether God is moral or not is immaterial, as we are not God ourselves and cannot act as him. Christians are taught to be good people, and not amoral.

Numbers 31:5-20 So twelve thousand men armed for battle, a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel. Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling. They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every man. Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder. They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps. They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals, and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho. Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle. "Have you allowed all the women to live?" he asked them. "They were the ones who followed Balaam's advice and were the means of turning the Israelites away from the LORD in what happened at Peor, so that a plague struck the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

I don't care how perfect and righteous god says he is. I don't believe him.
Come my brethren and feast upon one another! (S)He who triumps and has eaten us all will be blessed with the knowledge of all those with whom (s)he has consumed!
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Is God Moral or Immoral - by Scented Nectar - May 11, 2010 at 9:26 pm
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by AngelThMan - May 12, 2010 at 12:36 am
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by Scented Nectar - May 12, 2010 at 12:42 am
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by Scented Nectar - May 12, 2010 at 10:15 am
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by AngelThMan - May 12, 2010 at 2:45 am
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by John_S3V - May 12, 2010 at 3:38 pm
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by KichigaiNeko - May 12, 2010 at 5:50 am
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by tackattack - May 12, 2010 at 7:10 am
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by Xyster - May 12, 2010 at 9:21 am
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by fr0d0 - May 12, 2010 at 8:11 am
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by downbeatplumb - May 12, 2010 at 12:44 pm
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by Welsh cake - May 12, 2010 at 3:12 pm
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by Watson - May 12, 2010 at 3:22 pm
RE: Is God Moral or Immoral - by Zen Badger - May 13, 2010 at 8:39 am

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