(September 3, 2010 at 4:57 am)fr0d0 Wrote: In that story the people were choosing to live apart from God and were suffering the consequences. I guess we all expect to get burnt if we put our hands in the fire. I guess you could blame God but that would be misguided as you're blaming him for what are the consequence of his goodness... the bad stuff that happens when you act contrary to that. Yeah it's tough but it does you no good rebelling because of your crappy situation.And the first born of Israel had done what crime? Lot had done nothing wrong when god set him on a path of suffering because he was feeling capricious, or jeptha who had to sacrifice his daughter. You have to abandon intellect time and again if you set about trying to justify it. Marcian had a more coherent strategy for dealing with this.
So clearly God is not at fault here. Any more?
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
