RE: Horrible things in the bible
October 10, 2014 at 12:34 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2014 at 1:10 pm by Jenny A.)
Lek,
What I'm hearing is:
1) God is the source of all good;
2) Therefore anything God does is good;
3) If faced with something ugly God has done, refer to rules one and two.
The problem is with premise number one is that even if god made everything and therefore is the source of all goodness, he's also definitionaly the source of all evil as well. Second, as depicted in the Bible god has done enough evil to puncture any notion that he only indulges to good part of his nature.
When pressed you resort to: God made everything therefore he has a right to do whatever he wants with his toys. It's a might makes right argument of the worst sort.
If I'm missing something here, please explain it.
What I'm hearing is:
1) God is the source of all good;
2) Therefore anything God does is good;
3) If faced with something ugly God has done, refer to rules one and two.
The problem is with premise number one is that even if god made everything and therefore is the source of all goodness, he's also definitionaly the source of all evil as well. Second, as depicted in the Bible god has done enough evil to puncture any notion that he only indulges to good part of his nature.
When pressed you resort to: God made everything therefore he has a right to do whatever he wants with his toys. It's a might makes right argument of the worst sort.
If I'm missing something here, please explain it.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
