How do you know these were unjust commands?
Last time I heard the catholic church asserted that humans have an innate dignity, and in my - maybe biased - opinion, sexual slavery is just a little bit against that dignity. Maybe your milage varies, and you may not see anything problematic with it.
How does God give us diseases? Seems your claim in this regard is without evidence. Given the strawman version of God above, your conclusion is invalid.
Since everything is given out by God, it is pretty obvious. Mind you, it was not my assertion that everything is given out and maintained by God, so you should direct your question toward those, who came up with this lunatic idea. That strawman version is not my creation - it is given out by many posters on the board.
And, why is your definition of “good” the applicable one in this case?
Oh yes… there is a different definition of “good” when we talk about God and a totally different one, when we talk of everything else. Riiiight… If only I would have a dollar for every time that someone said this, I would be a pretty rich person by now.
Here is the trick. If something is “good” when performed by God, it is equally “good” when performed by humans. And the opposite is also true: if something is despicable when performed by humans, it is equally despicable when performed by God. There are no two different measuring rods, one for God and one for everything else. There is no “get out of jail free” card for God, just because he is God. That is why I asked so many times by now: “if God is sooo loving, where is that love manifested, so we all can see and experience that love, and reciprocate it in our measly and inadequate, but honest ways?”.
The basic problem is simple: every time you guys and gals will use the famous (more like infamous) “
fallacy of special pleading”. God is a special case, God must be measured by different standards. It will not fly. The fallacy of “special pleading” only manifests one thing: you are out of arguments, you cannot rationally explain the charges brought up against God, and therefore you try the “special pleading”. It would be refreshing to see it openly and honestly admitted, but that is also a vain hope.
When I first read 1984, I could not fathom how can people actually practice “doublethink” and therefore I thought that the writer was too far out to be taken seriously; I thought that the society he wrote about is impossible. I am still unable to understand “doublethink”, but having been on these boards a few years, I must accept that some people are actually able to maintain two, contradictory views at the same time. Frightening, really.
