Happy To Kill Children
Dave Gaban drrod@slip.net
Mon, 04 Jan 1999 19:05:08 -0800 (00915527108, 36918164.7095@slip.net)
Tim Taylor wrote:
>
> > >>
> > >> Tim
> > >> Gee Dave, you actually had the ambition to put in all those verses
> > >> from the KJV. Thanks.
> > >
> > >Dave G.
> > >We both know anything less would have made BEREAN feel he had us on
> this
> > >one. He still won't be impressed, but at least the KJV still makes
> God
> > >out to be just as evil as the other translations.
> >
> > I don't think ya'll get the picture, YVHV ain't evil to the elect,
> loyal,
> > faithful
> > and righteous - only to the heathen, the gentile and the apostate
> Jew, and
> > also
> > women whom aren't considered human anyway.
>
> Tim
> Oh believe me, I have seen this defense, and Dave probably has too. I
> recently debated a Catholic on Adnan's newsgroup who claimed just
> that. Like Thomas Aquinas, he argued that "evil" does not apply to
> God. According to my RC friend, murder, adultery, etc. are violations
> of "natural law" when committed by man, but when committed or
> commanded by God, they are completely acceptable.
>
> Logically , this is a violation of the law of non-contradiction
> (something being both evil, yet not evil) as well as baldly circular
> reasoning (God isn't evil, "Why?", because he is good stupid!).
>
> Of course, it also immediately removes the "recorded" acts of any deity
> from the realm of judgment by humans, since the believer is taught
> that the deity knows the ultimate (read "good") reason behind the act
> of evil. This is why Fitzpatrick's admission that he would have
> murdered the children of Amalek if he were Saul is both pathetic and
> sad at the same time. He is unable to see the ramifications of blindly
> following his "feelings" about his God.
>
Dave G.
Like I've said before, the God of Christianity is a "do as I say, not as
I do" God.