RE: 10 Questions Biblical Literalists Cannot Honestly Answer
June 22, 2017 at 8:23 am
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2017 at 8:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 22, 2017 at 8:17 am)alpha male Wrote: Yes, it is your bad. I'm being purposely vague because I'm tired of you jumping into conversations without reading them, and making wrong assumptions about my positions.
I took Succubus's position and showed an internal fault with it. I never said that I subscribed to that position myself. You're making arguments as if I had said I agree with his position, and so your arguments end up being wrong.
-except that you only did any of that in your own mind..as I took the time to explain.
You agree that god is not an automaton. If omiscience precludes our free will, it still doesn't, in your mind, preclude gods. God is the typical special case. I know that instinctively you want to rail against that, because the notion of special pleading has been drilled into you here, on these boards..but pleading for a special case is perfectly reasonable when the case -is- special.
It's this, the special case concept of god maintained by you and every other believer, that people are addressing...as you already knew, as everyone already knew, and has been explained to you in thread just in case you somehow didn't know that. A willful being intentionally judging and punsihing automatons for being exactly how he himself designed them is absurd, and more than that..it's wrong.
If I put beef jerky on the floor, and my dog eats it - what I probably -shouldn't- do is beat my dog for it, for being a "bad dog". I'm obviously a shitty dog owner, just like god is obviously a shitty people owner.
The same holds true even if god -is- an automaton, even if god doesn;t choose to beat the shit out of his human chattel..it;s just in his nature. He may not be a moral agent, but the act itself is still as wrong as it ever was, and for all the same reasons.
You're being "purposely vague" because you're two parts troll and one part christer..but there's nothing vague or ambiguous in your belief in the special case god; the exception to every rule you may wish to logically impose upon it's creation. It's the uncreated creator. The omniscient but freely willed. The omnipotent but incapable, etc, etc etc.
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