I think it may be time for a little blast from the past!Originally posted by granite1010
Wait, wait. Time out. There were infants in Sodom. Did they deserve to die or not?
If yes, the almighty's cool with incinerating toddlers and babies whose only sin was being born into a city of depravity. Well, gee. If a baby's born in New Orleans or Frisco, and either city got nuked off the map, would those innocents "deserve" to die or not?
And if they DID NOT deserve to die, your deity's willing and fully capable of killing infants with no guile whatsoever, merely because...well, because collateral damage is inevitable.
I was referring to the situation of abortion in the United States. See, Christians almost always view abortion as willful sin and rebellion--which it may be, to a certain extent--but almost never wonder if it's actually a judgment of some kind.
Originally posted by smothers
Which is worse, God killing 99.999999% of the creatures in the flood or abortionists aborting perhaps hundreds of pre-born a day?
Originally posted by granite1010
Apples and oranges: one is judgment and the other is perversion.
granite
Originally posted by smothers
So God was judging the fetuses in the mother's womb? What did they do to incur God's wrath?
Originally posted by granite1010
What's your point, anyway?
granite
Originally posted by smothers
My point is that God is far more evil than the abortionists many Christians picket.
Originally posted by granite1010
Uh-huh. Righteously judging a planet choked with wickedness and deliberately murdering the unborn aren't exactly the same thing, chief. While you're at it why don't you picket the almighty for the Holocaust, Mao's great leap forward, the Stalinistic purges. Try again.
granite
Originally posted by smothers
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deliberately murdering the unborn
isn't that what God did, deliberately kill unborn?
Originally posted by granite1010
Look, you want to debate the virtues and evils of God, knock yourself out. That belongs in an entirely different forum than dispensationalism, for one thing. And for another you're justifying yourself by claiming God's "wickedness" in the flood.
Harping on the injustices of God is as old as man and fundamentally immature. To say that abortionists and God act within the same parameters and can justify their actions equally is a complete non-sequitar.
granite
Originally posted by granite1010
The idea that we must hold God accountable to a human standard is by itself irrational: it implies an equal playing field between created and creator.
granite
Are you claiming Condi had somthing to do whith the 911 attack?Originally posted by aikido7
If Condi wants to kill babies, is it okay that the babies are in the womb, in the World Trade Center, or in Iraq? I guess it's her choice....
Originally posted by aikido7
When a finite mind clashes with an Infinite Mind, there's bound to be misunderstanding, ignorance, assumptions.
Originally posted by deardelmar
Happier for acusing God of evil! What else are you trying to sell?
Originally posted by deardelmar
You were right before! BTW It's not Gods fault that "Christians" messed you over.
correctOriginally posted by granite1010
No, I was wrong, twisted, misguided, and misled.
Interesting that the rotten things that happen in the world are never, ever, God's fault.
Why would he be accountable for things that are our fault?Makes ya wonder if he's just a Santa Claus dispensing good and never taking accountability for the bad.
Pretty nice racket.
Happier for acusing God of evil! What else are you trying to sell?
Thanks for the clarification. This helps in understanding the character of God. And still the fear of the Lord is not allowed inside the Church. :angel:Originally posted by erethnereh
The hebrew word for evil can mean natural disasters.
You bear the classic signs of a man driven by pride, to judge God rather than allow God to judge you...How sadOriginally posted by granite1010
One more thing for us to feel guilty about...barring natural disasters and the like, I would assume.