RE: You CAN game Christian morality
February 24, 2015 at 6:35 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2015 at 6:53 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(February 24, 2015 at 5:50 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: God is responsible for creating a man capable of choice, not of the choices man makes.
Oh, ooh, free will.
When my son was learning to walk, he wanted sometimes to cross roads. I didn't let him do so by himself, because it was obviously dangerous.
What you're telling me is that your god, knowing how powerful Satan was, turned Adam and Eve loose in the Garden with no knowledge of the difference between good and evil, that he knew Satan was in the garden, and he didn't know that Eve would take the applebite?
I'm just a mere mortal, and I can foresee when a bad situation raises risk to unacceptable levels. Your god is alleged to be omnipotent, yet he couldn't know that man would not always choose wisely?
If I know of an incipient murder, and I do nothing to stop it though I can safely do so, have I behaved in a moral fashion?
I submit that your understanding of moral responsibility is uselessly shallow.
(February 24, 2015 at 5:50 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: Christianity teaches penance and personal responsibility, not self-loathing.
Luke, in Chapter 14, verse 26, Wrote:If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ke%2014:26
Christianity inculcates self-loathing in humans.