Mormon Mike

All very good points. Here is where us Christians get stuck in this topic:

If I believe in a God that will guide me in my decisions, as I request guidance let me add, then I must acknowledge that that God knows what decision is best for me and what will transpire after that decision. If I don't acknowledge that then asking for guidance is in essence useless. Finally by me acknowledging this I accecpt that he is all knowing and accept that he knows what I will do, but in my mind I can't think or live my life from his position, I have to make the decisions placed before me, and before me is always multiple choices.

Doctor X

So was he guiding Josef Mengele . . . or Celine Dion?

To bring this back to BC&H, none of that is relevant to an explanation of why a good deity would require children destroyed.

--J.D.

Sven

Please explain the relevance of the above to the answer of Amaleq13. He's exactly right: If God knows what we'll do, we don't have free will, only the illusion of free will.

Asking for guidance and which one is the best choice is wholly irrelevant here. Another nice example of a theist changing the topic when he can not answer a problem any more.

Yes. But you can only choose one, since God knows in advance which one you'll choose. Thus, in essence, you don't have multiple choices at all, only the illusion of it.

Steven Carr

Yes.

God knows what we will do, even in situations where we never actually make the choice, because those situations happen never to have come up.

Steven Carr

So God has knowledge of what would happen in every branch of every decision you take.

When was that knowledge created? When did you make those free will decisions in EACH of those branches? You never did and you never can, yet God infallibly knows all of them.

Steven Carr

Because the Christian Cadre, of which Layman, Bede and Metacrock are members, say that those children would have grown up to be evil.

Although God's plan since eternity for these children was for them to be killed in childhood.

Doctor X

Ah . . . efficiency!

However, one may well wonder why he would bother giving them souls if he knew he would have to squish them.

The lengths apologists will go to salvage a belief remains truly extraordinary.

--J.D.

JoyJuice

From the conclusion of the OP website:

"Satan used the Amalekites as his prime weapon to achieve this goal, and God used his chosen people to stop Satan’s plans."

Ah ha, so after all it is just like the movie "Jason and the Argonauts" were God and the other supernatural entities are manipulating us like pieces on chessboard.