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RE: Pedophilia in the Bible: this is a porn book
March 26, 2018 at 9:14 am
(March 26, 2018 at 8:37 am)LastPoet Wrote: And the lord hardened the pharaoh's heart. So much for that free will.
Aaaannndddd...every thread about Christianity eventually turns to free will.
If you actually read the account, you'd see that pharaoh hardened his heart himself, more than once, before God did so.
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RE: Pedophilia in the Bible: this is a porn book
March 26, 2018 at 9:26 am
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Exactly. So it's only righteous and just that we destroy his city and kill the children. I guess they left the pretty young girls behind, that time..but you can't get it all right all the time.
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RE: Pedophilia in the Bible: this is a porn book
March 26, 2018 at 9:28 am
If he'd already hardened his heart himself, why did god have to even interfere?
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RE: Pedophilia in the Bible: this is a porn book
March 26, 2018 at 9:52 am
(March 26, 2018 at 9:28 am)Lutrinae Wrote: If he'd already hardened his heart himself, why did god have to even interfere?
Actually, it's worse. Pharoah was all set to concede and set Moses et al free unconditionally. It took the perverse "god" to prevent that.
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RE: Pedophilia in the Bible: this is a porn book
March 26, 2018 at 11:00 am
(March 26, 2018 at 9:14 am)alpha male Wrote: (March 26, 2018 at 8:37 am)LastPoet Wrote: And the lord hardened the pharaoh's heart. So much for that free will.
Aaaannndddd...every thread about Christianity eventually turns to free will.
If you actually read the account, you'd see that pharaoh hardened his heart himself, more than once, before God did so.
No there is not ONE LICK of the claim of "free will" in that book, not one lick.
The very first story is a rigged bet where two innocent poker chips were used as pawns in a bet between the God character and the Lucifer character, as to which neither Adam and Eve were aware the bet was made, had no knowledge or say in the set up before hand and were punished for something they were ignorant of.
The God Character simply barking orders is not the same as having a choice.
All the characters below God in that book of mythology are written to glorify that character friend and foe alike.
Having a choice in real life looks like this.
Me, "I feel like having a hamburger tonight. No, on second thought, maybe a pizza." <-----THAT IS A CHOICE.
The entire book's message is "Obey me or else!"
Tell me where the free will was for the Parkland victims? Did they go to school that day and say, "Hey, today I feel like having my brains blown out in class."
Tell me where rape and murder victim Polly Klass's "free will" was, when a drugged up nut butchered her?
Tell me where the free will of the 6 million Jews of WW2 who were shot, gassed and burned?
No sorry the claim is nonsense.
Your God character doesn't allow suffering because it is good, the God character allows suffering as a prop so that when you are in fear or desperate you turn to him. It is a book of fiction, but I am talking about the intent of the writers.
The God character is written like an arsonist who is also the fireman. Like any good mafia boss, has his minions walk into your business, breaks a few things, then threatens you to pay protection money.
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RE: Pedophilia in the Bible: this is a porn book
March 27, 2018 at 3:38 am
(March 26, 2018 at 9:52 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote: (March 26, 2018 at 9:28 am)Lutrinae Wrote: If he'd already hardened his heart himself, why did god have to even interfere?
Actually, it's worse. Pharoah was all set to concede and set Moses et al free unconditionally. It took the perverse "god" to prevent that.
Yeah, I checked and I could find no evidence of him freely hardening his heart. God decided beforehand that he would.
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RE: Pedophilia in the Bible: this is a porn book
March 27, 2018 at 6:50 am
(March 26, 2018 at 9:28 am)Lutrinae Wrote: If he'd already hardened his heart himself, why did god have to even interfere?
To carry out his complete plan.
Note that free will isn't 100%. It doesn't need to be.
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RE: Pedophilia in the Bible: this is a porn book
March 27, 2018 at 5:43 pm
(March 27, 2018 at 6:50 am)alpha male Wrote: To carry out his complete plan.
Note that free will isn't 100%. It doesn't need to be.
God: Let my people go!
Pharaoh: No.
God: How about now?
Pharaoh: No!
God: Now?
Pharaoh: Nope.
God: C'mon, please.
Pharaoh: Nope.
God: Seriously dude?
Pharaoh: Okay fine!
God: Wait? Really? Shit. I still have some plagues left.
Pharaoh: Well, I'm letting them go. I've had enough.
God: YOU DON'T GET TO DECIDE WHEN YOU'VE HAD ENOUGH
Pharaoh: So wait.. why even ask me if you're just going to give us plagues no matter what I say? I'm calling Bullshit, mate.
Makes perfect sense.
Of course in this version, Pharaoh just goes and gets Ra, and Ra kills Yahweh. Because Moses isn't a historical person.
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RE: Pedophilia in the Bible: this is a porn book
March 27, 2018 at 5:47 pm
I think this a bad way to approach interfaith dialogue. To go after edge-cases.
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RE: Pedophilia in the Bible: this is a porn book
March 27, 2018 at 6:28 pm
(March 27, 2018 at 6:50 am)alpha male Wrote: (March 26, 2018 at 9:28 am)Lutrinae Wrote: If he'd already hardened his heart himself, why did god have to even interfere?
To carry out his complete plan.
Note that free will isn't 100%. It doesn't need to be.
If God isn't willing to treat anyone equal, and everyone is below him, then that his not equality or justice, that is just simply being a dictator, a king. GUESS WHAT, everyone in antiquity lived under ruling families.
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