(June 16, 2015 at 11:36 am)Rhythm Wrote: Hey, morning, welcome back. We were just discussing the OT with Randy, a fellow catholic. He's busy looking for ways to make douchegod of the OT "right", he seems to feel that allegory isn't a proper explanation for those stories. God really commanded the israelites to "such and such" and so there must be a reason that all of this is right, after all, god did it.
What say you, is this how we should determine morality? If god engineered the death of the firstborn, must that be right? If god called for the genocide of a competing tribe, is there any requirement that we accept this as a just act?
Good morning!
Catholics are free to believe the OT stories are allegory, or literal.
He may believe it is literal. I cannot speak for him so I don't know how he would explain this. But he did confirm that God does not change and neither does morality... and that murder was wrong then as it is now.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
