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To: GunRunner

It’s not my purpose to make you angry.

And I think you know very well the likely emotional reaction your comments would have on a Christian.

In in our attempts to find truth we won’t let ourselves be sidetracked by petty interpersonal exchanges.

If we accept the reality of his existence, God is both the creator of the universe and the moral law giver. In comparison to his level of greatness, human accusations against God don’t really register on any scale that I can perceive. At the very least, it doesn’t make logical sense think he has the same accountability we have. Further, the Biblical understanding of God is that he is sinless. In light of these things, we should honor and worship God.


465 posted on 05/12/2014 7:57:19 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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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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