RE: Why do you believe in God?
April 30, 2015 at 4:29 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2015 at 5:29 pm by Pyrrho.)
(April 30, 2015 at 4:05 pm)Lek Wrote:(April 30, 2015 at 3:49 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It is the story of Abraham and Isaac. In the story, being willing to kill your child, just because God tells you to do so, is considered to be a good thing. One either accepts such stories or one does not. Every Christian, every Jew, and every Muslim, should be willing to do that, as it is part of their heritage. It is only by rejecting their own sacred scripture that one can consistently refuse to kill one's children when commanded by God to do so. All of the Christians, Jews, and Muslims who would refuse to kill their children, whenever God tells them to do so, are rejecting the clear message of text sacred to them, and without which, their religions are unsupported and unworthy of belief.
Okay. But realize that God stopped Abraham and I don't know anybody else who God commanded to kill their child.
Deuteronomy 21 [emphasis is added]:
18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Since the father is one of the men of the city, he is commanded, by God, to kill his son. God did not stop the fathers who followed this.
Your lack of knowledge of the Bible is appalling, given your pretense at following it.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
