Please read the top right of my posts. I am Buddhist, and in Buddhist terms, the Abrahamic God is indeed a “moral monster”.
With God, no one is innocent or guilty on this earth. We are just varying shades of not bad.
Read the whole Tanakh and see why they deserved it. One’s actions can be the downfall and rise of many. If one sins against his brother, he disrupts that flow.How much more so if one sins against God?
So, killing the unborn is not killing the innocent, just killing the “not bad”. You might want to let the Pro-Life people know that.
Why don’t you ask God? And for once quit taking my words out of context.
Apologetics is the explanation for why a particular faith is true, and in this apologetics forum that faith is Catholicism. You may disagree, but personally I find rossum’s questions reasonable and worthy of discussion, which is likely why he came here to CAF. It’s very much the purpose of this discussion forum.
You have me right. The level of discussion here is generally better than in some other web forums I could name.
Correct. All are fallen…separated from God…as a result of Adam’s decision to disobey God.
No. I would not accept such a God, either.
Since God ordered slaughter of children in the OT, and he never changes (Malachi 3:6), you can never really know whether the person saying “God wants me to shoot up this school” is outside the will of God. I find nothing in the bible to support the notion that that God “would never” do that today.Why should it? Seriously. When you mess with others you break the communion of humanity, but when you mess with God…do not get me started on that…
That is exactly the God of the Bible. Numbers 31:17 “Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.”
It would also be fair to say that Jesus is not unbiased in this matter. If Jesus is God, then all the actions attributed to God in the Old Testament are equally actions of Jesus. His own opinion of His own actions may not be unbiased.
If Jesus is God, rossum, than he is perfect which means he would no be biased which implies imperfect.
If He was perfect then He would not have ordered the actions which triggered the question asked in this thread. Also, He would not have been able to create the world as described in Genesis, which is at one point described as “not good”, see Genesis 2:18. Furthermore, a perfect God would have known in advance that animals would not meet Adam’s need.
Keeping in mind that the first principles of bible interpretation are grammar and immediate context, I see nothing in the grammar or immediate context of Genesis 6:6-7 to indicate that God’s regret over his own decision to create man, was intended by the author any less literally than Genesis 1:1 was intended.
Being perfect He would be perfect in good as well. But He cannot be perfect in the sense of pleasing everyone because each person has his own idea of what he wants and dosen’t want. And there is no agreement among all what is most pleasing and desirable. As a matter of fact, each person may change there idea of what is pleasing and not pleasing(desirable) over time.
Genesis 2:18 does not have this.
I don’t know what you mean by this.
Jesus was both God and man. He was speaking as a man in reference to this. As God he knows all. So what he was saying is that he did not want to reveal it.
Killing pregnant women, and hence killing their unborn babies, is “good”? I do not accept your definition of ‘good’ here.
Again, is the indirect killing of unborn babies not wrong? Is the direct killing of newborn babies not wrong? If you do not think that such actions are wrong, then I have little wish to follow your version of morality.
Yes it does: “And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.” (emphasis added) The world that the perfect God created was “not good” for a time.
Why did the omniscient God not know in advance that Adam would not find a companion among the animals? Why did he bother to waste time with trying all the various animals before creating Eve? An omniscient perfect God would have gone straight to the correct solution, rather than trying known incorrect solutions first.
I’ve already explained this in my previous post.
I’ve again explained this before in my previous post. But killing of newborn babies is happening all the time thru natural disasters, accidents, and so forth. So for these your answer would be the same?
“meet” means “mate” which refers to woman.
It means that man’s unholy ways(sins) were in oposition to God’s perfect sanctity(goodness). And since the animals were given to man to help him in life, they too were given the label of dissatisfaction being attached to man.