A moral God?
errancy@infidels.org errancy@infidels.org
Thu, 27 May 1999 09:42:27 -0500 (EST) (00927834147, Pine.HPP.3.96.990527093203.29389B-100000@garnet.iupui.edu)
> > Dave G.
> > It would be much more difficult for skeptics to argue against the
> > morals of God, if Christians would just admit we are nothing more than
> > God's little playthings. Whatever pleases God, is moral. God may
> > torture, love, exterminate, defile, save or doom whomever he pleases
> > with no requirement to answer for his crimes.
> >
> > If God kills, it is always moral.
>
>SHAWN
> Killing is not immoral. The Bible says that you should not murder.
>
KRIS
Murder is premeditated killing. God had his son murdered.
> >
> > If God has sex with an unmarried virgin, it is always moral.
>SHAWN
> God didn't have sex. He is a spirit. He simply willed she become
> pregnant.
>
KRIS
Just like he could have willed the salvation of man instead of creating
the whole Jesus fiasco?
> > If God created the Jesus myth, just to watch the death and carnage it
> > would cause and laugh his ass off over the result, it would be moral.
>SHAWN
> If Jesus is a myth to you, then why do you even care? Again, Jesus was
> sent to sacrifice himself but he arose from the grave after three days.
KRIS
Sacrifice himself? It's my understanding that Jesus was a God. A
sacrifice would involve death, could you explain how a God can die please?
> > If God makes someone sin, then holds them responsible for the sin, it
> > is always moral.
>
>SHAWN
> HE CANNOT MAKE ANYONE SIN. Nor will he tempt us.
KRIS
He made man commit orginal sin. If he is omnimax, he knew it was going to
happen, still he created man, who, without knowledge, had no real
cognitive choice.