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06-17-2007, 11:56 AM
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Must a creator necessarily be good?
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06-17-2007, 01:23 PM
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In light of the fundamentalist Christian's religious beliefs anyone can answer that one...... :wave::
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06-18-2007, 04:11 AM
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An answer is of course not necessarily, but we all know you have a particular being in mind.
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06-18-2007, 04:42 AM
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06-18-2007, 05:11 AM
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Just who exactly are True Christians™ in your view? Catholics, some Protestants, and now, fundamentalists are off your list. What gives? Who is True™? |
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06-18-2007, 05:23 AM
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:rolling: For someone who does not self-identify as any sort of Christian, I am interested why you feel so strongly on these matters  Tigers: An answer is of course not necessarily I have always wondered how to get from a 1st cause to a creator which can be saddled with all sorts of speculative unrelated attributes. |
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06-18-2007, 05:26 AM
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:wave: That may be your intended target but :Cheeky: |
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06-18-2007, 08:01 PM
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06-19-2007, 05:09 AM
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If the God of the Bible was not mentally incompetent, how would you know it? Sometimes God kills people, including babies, discriminately, like he did when he killed all of the firstborn males in Egypt, and sometimes he kills people, including babies, indiscriminately, like he did with Hurricane Katrina. Indiscriminate killing is a good sign of mental incompetenece. If an advanced alien came to earth, set up a government of his own, and sometimes acted harshly like God sometimes acts, Christians most certainly would not assume that all of his actions and allowances were necessary towards the achievement of worthy, fair, and just goals, but why not, just because they did not believe that the alien created the universe? |
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That raises in my mind the question of what is your definition of good? How do you measure good or evil? What is your yardstick? Why should I (or anyone else for that matter) accept your definition of good or evil as applied to God or any other being? |
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