(July 29, 2010 at 3:34 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: An argument I sometimes use with Protestants is that if God could inspire the Council of Nicaea to vote properly for the correct books, why couldn't God also be inspiring the Pope and working through him?
*Note: not an endorsement of Catholicism, obviously, but more on why Protestants reject one but not the other.
You could really take this logic to an extreme and say how do you know that "God" didn't inspire Hitler, Pol Pot, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy or Paul Hill? How do we know that child molesters aren't inspired by "God"? And don't try telling me these people couldn't have been inspired by "God" because they did evil things. "God" does all manner of evil in the Bible and believers rationalize it by saying "We can't understand why God does the things he does", or "God has his reasons".
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
