RE: Religiosity, Spirituality and the Moral
February 19, 2015 at 5:48 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2015 at 5:51 pm by Lek.)
(February 19, 2015 at 5:40 pm)robvalue Wrote: Christian morality is horrible. It's just that civilised christians cherry pick it.
The OT stands. Christians are very welcome to throw it away if they want, I'm not going to argue. Yet they want to keep the slavery endorsement and the punishment for girls being raped. And stoning children to death. Why, again?
At very best, the OT is evidence that God WAS a monster of the highest order, does change his mind, is capable of huge evil and is a liar. Even if he's now all good, I would have thought the above warnings, in his own book, written by him, would be enough of a concern as to his "morality".
Would you follow a reformed serial killer?
The OT does stand and was fulfilled in Christ. The question always goes back to whether christians are under the OT law. The old testament people were under God's wrath, and after Christ, we are under God's grace. A day or two ago I presented 3 or 4 verses from scripture to demonstrate that christians are not under the old law. God isn't reformed. He was always morally righteous. I never made any kind of statement saying that God was once evil and then he changed.