(June 24, 2015 at 6:54 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 24, 2015 at 6:48 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Oh, I understand his position perfectly.
That's why I just had a little vomit rise in my throat.
Randy's point is that if God had come out and hit everyone with all the morals all at once, it wouldn't have worked. People wouldn't have listened. People would have just dismissed it all right away and never changed. So God had to do it slowly for it to actually work. That's all Randy is saying here. I don't see why that should make you want to vomit.
(i'm going to keep saying this is randy's position not mine so that I don't get accused of believing things I don't actually believe)
If that is true, then god is not omnipotent. It is a weak, ineffectual being that cannot do what it wants when it wants. You are right to distance yourself from such heresy.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.