(December 17, 2014 at 9:09 pm)Godschild Wrote: Those that God has destroyed, it was for sin, and disobedience is only one of the sins. God is omniscient making His justice and judgement flawless.The argument can easily be reduced to "disobedience is the ONLY sin." It is god's omnipotence that makes his justice and judgment undeniable. Accepting those makes the god of the Bible much easier to explain and rationalize: god cannot sin because he doesn't give himself orders and thus is never disobedient. His power makes his judgments immutable and thus his justice is never denied.
I get that a lot of people are made uncomfortable by that idea, and it's understandable: a god who can do anything, and yet do no wrong, is capable of justifiably committing the most horrific and unfair acts imaginable and get away with it. Not just get away with it, but his creation would not miss a step in confirming his greatness the whole time.
And that is the situation you expect to find yourself for all of eternity.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
