Yikes, sky dad...morals are absolute, though

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There is nothing relativistic about people receiving the consequences of their actions, GT.

 

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ding argued morals are relative based on the situation

on the internet

No. I am arguing that it shouldn't be a surprise when what goes around comes around, GT. You want utopia. It doesn't exist.

 

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rape and genocide and baby killing are ok as punishments?

im not saying yes or no...

im saying youre saying yes, therefore calling them relative

youre not that bright

I am saying that if that is how you have been behaving to others, it shouldn't be a shock when it gets done to you.

 

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But again, GT, you have incomplete knowledge.

 

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rape and genocide and baby killing are ok as punishments?

im not saying yes or no...

im saying youre saying yes, therefore calling them relative

youre not that bright

I am saying that if that is how you have been behaving to others, it shouldn't be a shock when it gets done to you.

You are all over the place.

This discussion is that if its "good" when god committed genocide..

then youre calling that particular moral, by definition


i know you dont understand, but ther folks will...you made the OP case and did so unwittingly

this was an epic win tbh

The fact that our notion of God is challenged by the Bible is a sure sign that the God revealed within the pages of Scripture is real. Lewis went on to say, “My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of His presence?" Instead of rejecting God because we don’t like what the Bible reveals about him, we seek to understand more deeply who he is.

 

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We live in a logical universe where every effect had a cause. There is a self compensating feature at work that is beyond our ability to grasp. We have incomplete knowledge, but if we look around and are honest with ourselves we will see that everything does indeed work for good.

 

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The irony is that the morals and values Judaeo-Christianity produced in our society have led to the righteous indignation and high horse behaviors of those who reject Judaeo-Christianity.

But that's what happens when one creates a strawman argument.

 

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It would be exceedingly strange if an omniscient being did not immeasurably exceed our grasp of such matters. William Alston

 

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I usually let my arguments declare my victory. If I have to tell someone I won, I didn't win.

 

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Urban Dictionary: dingerred

 

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It would be exceedingly strange if an omniscient being did not immeasurably exceed our grasp of such matters. William Alston

Aren't we made in it's image?

 

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In apostate Israel, who but a few patriarchs and priests, spaced far and wide, might have had any connection to God?

"None are righteous. No, not one."

An idolatrous nation. Like their pagan neighbors, morally relativistic. Genocide, rape, polygamy, etc. was just the way it was in the world. So alluring were pagan ways that the Israelites even had a law for killing their own unfaithful (Dt 13:6-10).

Not so now. The law has changed. The priesthood has changed. God has not. He was just absent back then.