(February 21, 2015 at 9:33 pm)Nope Wrote: The god of the bible is a sociopath. I am curious if Christians can explain why their god is good without resorting to "Because the bible says"
I have not had the time to sift through all the voluminous responses to this thread, but I expect that the majority of them consist of judgments and counter judgements, accusations and counter accusations, condemnations and counter condemnations. In other words, the answers reflect the world at large and the human condition we find ourselves in. If it proves anything, it proves that any "answer" has an equal an opposite rebuttal. In that sense it mirrors action and reaction in the physical sciences. Anyway, the whole thing becomes an exercise in "one-upmanship" that is summarized in Rhianna's song, "Stay" where she says, "Round and a round and around and around we go...." We perpetuate the situation none of us can stand.
That being my preface, I am curious if we might be able to approach the thread not by providing the best answer, but by continually refining the question. This was a technique used by Peter Abelard, who was one of the fathers of scholasticism (and declared a heretic as a result). The advantage of the approach is that we will never be satisfied with an answer, no matter how elegant its logic be because, as Leonard Cohen says, "Everything has a crack in it, that's how the light gets in." Questions however, do not have the same fault. They do not attempt to encapsulate truth, but keep everything open ended...infinite in possibility...and without boundaries. Sound like freedom to me!
