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To: srweaver

I did, but your choosing to stick with mythology and your continual refusal to adopt the same standards for evaluating it, as you seem to do so, while arguing against science, is something I cannot help you with.

For the inconsistency in the “moral message”, let me just take an example from the Bible: 1 Samuel 15:3. Children and infants are ordered to be slaughtered here. What’s the beef, as you would say?


153 posted on 05/13/2010 5:14:01 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: James C. Bennett

God is passing the sentence of death on a culture or people, the Amalekites, for their personal and collective “sin,” just as he told Adam and Eve when they sinned they would die. Moral consequences of their own behavior.

Thankfully, beyond the grave, God is able to absolve or recompense the “innocent” children and infants among the Amalekites, something that will no doubt NOT compute in your mentality — but nevertheless true.

IOW, there is no ultimate justice this side of eternity, only human approximations of it, based on God’s unchanging moral standards.


155 posted on 05/13/2010 5:42:44 PM PDT by srweaver (Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
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