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Is the God of the Old Testament a Moral Monster? An Interview with Dick Belcher
Canon Fodder ^ | 3/9/2015

Posted on 03/10/2015 9:58:57 AM PDT by Gamecock

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To: Lee N. Field

Well, yes it will!


41 posted on 03/10/2015 4:46:33 PM PDT by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Infantry officer.)
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To: Gamecock
Good evening.

Why do atheists even care about the Bible? Be the good parts or the bad? Doesn't a Bible infer a deity? Atheists don't believe in deities. So why the PMS?

Ok, I must be missing something...

5.56mm

42 posted on 03/10/2015 4:59:17 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe

The modern atheist doesn’t believe in God, and hates Him.


43 posted on 03/10/2015 5:12:35 PM PDT by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Infantry officer.)
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To: Gamecock

The modern atheist doesn’t believe in God, and hates Him.

Speaking as a person who spent 30 years in the wilderness of atheism before returning to faith at 50, I always defined it thus: small “a”theists did not believe in anything greater than themselves, but were not particularly hostile to theists of any flavor. Big “A”theists are hostile to any manifestation of faith in God, but in their arrogance they focus on screaming their defiance at Judeo-Christian faith.


44 posted on 03/10/2015 5:36:02 PM PDT by Zippo44 (Liberal: another word for poltroon.)
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To: Gamecock

After Adam and Eve sinned and fell God did not destroy man kind.

The plan of salvation was already in the mind of God even before the foundations of this world.

The bible tells us about Jesus Christ, Behold the lamb that was slain before the foundations of the world.

The flesh became so corrupt in the earth that there was only 8 left on earth who’s DNA was not corrupted and tainted by the Nephellium.

God did not did not send to flood to destroy mankind, those whom’s flesh was still pure human DNA.

But God sent the flood to destroy those humans, the part of mankind who’s flesh was corrupted and tainted by Nephellium DNA.

God’s saved the true humans who was still pure in their DNA by Noah’s Ark.

When Israel went into the Promised Land, they encountered men , peoples who looked human, but were not.
Some of these peoples were even Giants, Nephelium.

Not all Nephellium were giants, but all the giants were Nephellium.

The Canaanites, and all the rest that Joshua and Israel defeated by the command of God were Nephellium, their DNA were tainted by the fallen angels.
These peoples were demons, fallen angels who’s DNA mixed with human DNA, the Nephellium.

Go read Geneses 6.

Many things start to make sense and fit to get her in the bible if you view it from looking through the lens that there were and still are Nephellium on the earth.


45 posted on 03/10/2015 6:43:32 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipe like Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: Gamecock
How would you answer somebody like Richard Dawkins who says that when God orders the extermination of the Canaanites He is nothing more than a moral monster?

Dawkins, and all atheists similar view, is internally coherent. As a materialist, atheist he affirms that only space and matter exists. So, does he affirm that objective, moral truth exists, and, if so, what matter is it made of. In Dawkins world nonmaterial entities do not exist. So, logically, can he make the case. The other problem is that in his worldview, logic, itself, cannot exist. So how does he make the case.

To quote Dawkins, only 'pitiless, mindless, matter' exists. So, in his worldview there can be no objective moral truth, and he cannot even begin to make his case without being incoherent.

So, it seems, Dawkins opinion is only that,....an opinion.

46 posted on 03/10/2015 7:13:57 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: kosciusko51

Satan?


47 posted on 03/11/2015 6:01:03 AM PDT by chesley (Obama -- Muslim or dhimmi? And does it matter?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Oh, I know, bu that doesn’t mean much to atheists when they don’t believe in hell at all.

Believe me, I’m trying my best to get my brother to believe! It’s a hard road so far.


48 posted on 03/11/2015 8:55:17 AM PDT by Thorliveshere (Minnesota Survivor)
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To: Thorliveshere

The “argument” of atheists generally boils down to snarky rhetoric. God grants them permission to refuse. God doesn’t grant an excuse from the consequences, which will add up to more and more obvious degrees of a “hell on earth.” What makes them so certain they can come up with something that is not far worse than the worst follies known to existing world faiths of any kind, let alone Christian?

C. S. Lewis traced how various major world faiths tended to have a high degree of moral agreement even while having starkly different theologies, in his book “The Abolition Of Man.”

It isn’t easy sharing with some people even who will ultimately believe. You’ll get pointless push backs which come from the serpent’s influence through original sin. Be patient because “but for the grace of God go we.” One interesting constant factor is that of how we deal with others, that is how God will deal with us. If we are mean, tight, and critical then we will see a mean, tight, and critical God. Maybe, I would tell the atheist, God seems mean because you want to be mean too.


49 posted on 03/11/2015 10:14:21 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: YHAOS

Thanks for the ping!


50 posted on 03/11/2015 8:53:00 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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