(November 11, 2020 at 11:50 am)MilesAbbott81 Wrote: God uses evil to punish evil, and to punish evil is to do good. God used Hitler to punish those who deserved it - not deserved from Hitler's perspective but from God's.
That's total nonsense. First, you don't know that. Decond, God that uses Hitler to do good is not good because if he was good he would have found better ways.
(November 11, 2020 at 11:50 am)MilesAbbott81 Wrote: Much good came out of World War 2
And even more good would have come out if there wasn't ww2.
(November 11, 2020 at 11:50 am)MilesAbbott81 Wrote: But that's the problem with the limited perspective of the impenitent and ignorant sinner. You can only see the negative because that's all you want to see.
No, you are limited and ignorant because you completely ignore suffering and pain of millions of people just so you can happily worship your deity.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"