(November 29, 2014 at 4:50 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Why just assume god's position is superior? If he's wrong, he's wrong; you're not going to appeal to authority with me, and just assuming that there's a good reason because you want there to be isn't going to get us anywhere. The factual case as it stands demonstrates that god was acting irrationally and redundantly. Your sole response has just been to assume there's a good reason, and to attack me for daring to question god, as though his authority means anything. But character assassination and presuppositions aren't arguments, they are, as I said before, ad hoc excuses made to avoid answering for obvious inconsistencies.
I've come to an epiphany Esquilax! I do assume God's position is superior because I believe that the bible is true. Since I believe that he is loving, just, all-knowing, etc., then everything he does is right. I believe that his act of salvation for us all was his supreme act of love for mankind. I believe that at the end of time we'll be with him and will understand in a way that we can't as humans on this earth. This is what the bible teaches and this is what I believe. We can't understand the mind of God and, therefore, are unequipped to judge his actions.
On the other hand, you and almost everyone else in this forum don't believe that the bible is the truth. In fact you don't even believe in God period. It appears that you think that if God did exist, that he should be expected to think and act as we do. On those grounds you make your judgments concerning the reasonableness and morality of God's actions in the bible.
So when it comes down to it, a debate between a christian and an atheist concerning whether or not the God of the bible is reasonable or moral is worthless. We can argue whether or not the bible is historically or scientifically reliable or other such things, but we can't argue about whether or not a supreme God who created the universe was acting ethically--or I guess we can, but the argument is meaningless.
