Okay, I'm going to try really hard to understand Rex's explanation for God's ordering the murder of children. I assume that Rex agrees that this is an accurate statement: God ordered that infants be killed, not a single one spared. Am I wrong, Rex? Tell me.
Now, let's see how Rex's explanation goes:
As usual, you seem NOT to understand that God determines how long each one of us live. We are predestined to our limited time and have only enough free will to choose eternal life or eternal damnation.
Okay, let's say we have free will. I understand what free will means. It means that, even if God has stamped an expiration date on my forehead, I am responsible for the choices I make, and I make them of my own volition. Okay. But what about infants? What choices had they made, and what does this have to do with God's ordering them killed? Are you implying that God killed the babies because they had abused their free will? If not, then what's the point of this free will jabber?
If I ordered my own infant to death, I'm sure you'd think I was pure evil, Rex. So why is it okay when God does it? And how is free will involved in your answer?
We all will die on the day that God has determined.
Uh-huh. So, God had these infants born, which is a miraculous testament to the greatness of his creative powers, only to determine that they must immediately die? Why? And why should that kind of insanity inspire me to worship him?
Is that so hard to get through your alcohol & drug addled brain?
Well, I don't know about Kent, but I'm dead sober. I'm beginning to think that I might need a few drinks before your explanation begins to make sense, Rex.
You're taking what many consider to be Hebrew apologetics over their own sins and making it apply to all Christians. Even if the passages ARE literal it is within divine providence to judge creation!
"It is within divine providence to judge creation." Um, this means that whatever God does is good, because he has "divine providence," which just a fancier way of saying that whatever God does is good. This means that morality is utterly subjective to the will of God. Morality is whatever God says it is. Morality is utterly meaningless and when we talk about virtue and goodness and honor, we are just farting into the wind, because malice and hatred and wickedness are just as good, if God says they are.
Next, you make the same JW error over and over, ignoring the fact that the soul is immortal and we suffer only a physical death.
Is it okay to stab a person in the eye if you're sure you can restore his sight? I'm not so sure, Rex. Plus, do you really think those infants are now off eating ice cream somewhere in heaven (or whatever)? Why would God reward someone he ordered killed? Why would he preserve in spirit a nation he was bent on destorying on earth?
Some people are better off dead, are they not, Kent baby?
Are infants better off dead?
Lastly, you keep telling us the Bible is a myth and if that is the case, why do YOU take it literal?
Kent's reasons for asking the question have nothing to do with the actual answer to the question.
So tell me, Rex, have I misunderstood you, or misrepresented you, and if so, where? Can you clear things up at all?
Dedalus