Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Ahh, so the Bible teaches predeterminationism and a lack of Free Will. At least, that's what you're suggesting here.
It was O.K. for god to slaughter those babies, as they were going to grow up to be evil people and could do nothing to change that.
Ahh, so the Bible teaches predeterminationism and a lack of Free Will. At least, that's what you're suggesting here.
It was O.K. for god to slaughter those babies, as they were going to grow up to be evil people and could do nothing to change that.
And I just said that this was a possibility, not that I thought it was fact.
And it is true that the Bible is very predestination friendly.
How are we to know? Maybe he destroyed EVERY city that has been destroyed in the past 3000 years? If he's willing to do it once, why not a thousand times? Perhaps New Orleans was being punished for something?
It makes a BIG difference as to our moral understanding of a supposed god if stories like this are LITERALLY true. I don't see how any reasonable person could suggest otherwise, except as a means as dismissing inconvenient items contained in one's holy books.
JM
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