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To: reasonisfaith
That wasn't an attempt at an interpersonal exchange, it was an observation of the relative immorality of the Old Testament God.

But arguing about the "accountability" of a celestial supreme being is mostly sophistry. What is much more likely, when looking at the evidence, is that the Old Testament was Iron Age man's attempt to explain a cruel, unforgiving world. They explained it by creating a cruel, unforgiving God.

466 posted on 05/12/2014 10:35:59 PM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner

A cruel, unforgiving world is what we would expect if the Bible were true. It explains how God’s enemy started the whole problem.

If the Bible were not true it would be mythology, and it would bear the marks of mythology.

One of the marks of mythology is inconsistency with history and with archeology. The Bible bears neither.


467 posted on 05/13/2014 6:49:28 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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