(March 10, 2015 at 5:29 pm)MilesAbbott81 Wrote: What is it you are failing to understand here? God repays evil with evil, and the severity of the punishment is in direct proportion to the crime. How is that not justice?
God is not a masochist - He detests these things as well. Why do you think they are forbidden by His commandments? But if they happen, he uses them to administer punishment/justice. That is just how it works.
What I'm failing to understand is how you claim on one hand that rape and murder are justice from God but on the other hand you claim to detest these actions. Why do you detest your all-knowing god's justice? Why would an all-powerful God use methods he detests to administer judgement?
The most burning question, though, is, can we expect any internal consistency from you?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell