RE: Why is it okay when God kills people?
May 12, 2017 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2017 at 12:53 pm by GrandizerII.)
(May 12, 2017 at 12:47 pm)SteveII Wrote:(May 9, 2017 at 1:03 am)Cecelia Wrote: God is supposed to be the bastion for morality, yet he goes around killing people pretty willy nilly in the bible. Not to mention how he demands blood sacrifices--which would be more than a little creepy if he were human. So why isn't it creepy just because he's some invisible wizard?
Are you okay with the concept of God judging people after they die?
If you are, then what is the difference if he judges them before they die?
If you are not, then it seems that killing people is really not your objection--rather that somehow it is not reasonable that God should be able to judge us.
Perhaps their objection is that the idea of a good God killing people defies modern humane intuitions of what constitutes superior/divine morality. Whether God should or should not judge us is not what they're arguing about. So focus on the argument at hand instead of trying to guess for them what they're really objecting to.
In other words, nice dodge, lol.
