(November 3, 2014 at 12:26 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(November 3, 2014 at 12:21 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Really? so the death penalty doesn't exist? Last time I looked, the government executed people all the time, and they are NOT omnipotent.
And I'm against that, as are many others. Additionally, the death penalty is a punishment for an actual and real crime such as murder, and not an imaginary crime like blasphemy or worshipping other gods which just seems to hurt God's feelings. Also additionally, the death penalty is administered to the individual(s) who committed the crime and not to their sons or friends or parents or town, something which your God also seems to have trouble with.
Yes, if any of us waltzed into a town with our gang and slaughtered everyone because they offended us, we'd be monsters. Somehow when your God does this (to the entire world, even) he's 'moral'.
The thing is that were all going to die anyway, the 70 years that you spend on the earth is just a blink in time, in other words, you're going to be dead a lot longer than your time living on this earth, which is a privilege not a right, so make the best of it.
If you transgress the laws of God, he has every right to shorten your time on the earth(which is already short). It's kinda like trying to distinguish between 1/100 and 1/1000 of a second, if your life is cut short somewhere in between, does it matter? We all will return back to where we came from.
