How far reaching are God's powers?

[MilesAbbott81]

Let's assume that a god is entirely justified to do whatever - but how could a priest of molech have ever done anything other than evil, as a human being - incapable of good?

The preist did it, he couldn't have done anything else.
The town watched, couldn't have done anything else.
Hell, the fucking baby was human, and therefore evil.

all well and good....but...

Where are these moral responsibilities coming from?  Where's the chain of desert?  In what way can human beings be morally responsible for things beyond our agency to choose?

God gave us all consciences. We know evil, or at least there are certain things that are obviously evil, when we see them.

Did you realize, when you did evil things in the past, that you were doing evil things, yet you did them anyway? Does that not, in itself, make you responsible?

Who cares that God didn't give you the option? You still did it. And again, as I said, God takes that into account, because His intention is to teach, not to be a sadist.

I understand it's a difficult thing to accept. Impossible, really, except by the grace of God (as with all things). It's probably the single most difficult thing to accept about our existence, because it seems far too harsh.

I will remind everyone that God Himself partook of the same harshness when He was crucified, though He did nothing wrong. If even the most innocent among us must suffer, then how much more those of us who aren't innocent?

Yet not everyone, not even close to everyone, will ever experience so horrible a death as Jesus Christ did. So spare me any moral outrage, please.

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You have a pretty screwed up view of reality.  I have waded through your nonsense replies, and have been disgusted about how you view your deity as working for good through evil means, or "sin" causing all the evil in the world.

Do you understand the biology of cancer?  If we all prayed daily and obeyed the 10 commandments would cancer go away?  No, it wouldn't.

Go tell the families of children that died of cancer that sin "theirs?  God's?  Adam's?  the child's?" brought on the cancer.  My nephew died at 6 of cancer.  Go take your screwed up theology somewhere else.

I don't need to understand the biology of cancer to understand that God causes it.

And yes, if you were to obey the 10 commandments you would have no worries of cancer, or at the least God would provide the healing in some way.

The deaths of children are tragic and particularly sad, but not in vain. There is always a good purpose behind every evil act, and for that there is cause to rejoice, especially when we consider that those children will enjoy the eventual fruits of God's labor as well.

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So... an aphorical tale that some how is supposed to be a justification now for sin=cancer?

Still not seemingly able to answer the question of the 'How' sin actually works, though.

I want to understand 'Sin' as a noun. Not s a verb. 'Doing sin' doesn't explain how sin is supposed to causing all these ills for which it is being blamed.


 

Also, hello to the forums. Enjoy your stay.

I suppose I don't understand your question, then. Committing sin causes evil consequences. It's not complicated.