But it's the truth. [We are slaves to sin...you (and me) are perversions...lying hypocrits]
Speak for yourself. I am not a slave to sin, I am not a perversion, I am not a hypocrite. If you believe these things of all people, you have a narrow field of view for whatever reason. I would think this worldview leaves one in a very dark, unhappy place.
Lots of criminals look into the eyes of their victims. Why don't they see themselves as evil? If you say evil is determined by a majority consensus, then who are the ones shaping the value consensus in populations? Marketers? Political policy makers? Social engineers? Whose eyes do they look into before deciding what is evil and what is not? Where do those sources get their values? Are they trustworthy?
Perhaps I should have said, most people are in touch with their humanity and can tell when they are causing harm - an important caveat comes up when considering sociopaths and certain religious zealots, who either lack empathy or the ability to link the harm they cause to their own actions.
This doesn't take a lot of scenario building nor removal to the esoteric or abstract. If you need a book to tell you that hurting other people is wrong, that's a comment on your limitations - not mine.
Then the statement must also true that if a judge that we duly elect has judged us and we experience"devastating consequences" he must forfeit his judgeship. Do you really want a legal system like that?
Human judges are not God. God is purportedly all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful. He alone invents his own laws. He alone can correct the structures he has created.
Human judges enforce laws created by bodies of people for their own needs.
I would think the difference should be obvious. Why would you want to limit God's authority like that?
If you knew everything there was to know about God, he wouldn't much of a God would he?
My point exactly. Why anthrpomorphize him, but only where convenient? Why make him omnipotent, but only where convenient?
If we are truly made in His image, we would be equipped to understand and judge Him. If He is utterly alien, then He's not going to follow our expectations very well.
EDIT:
If the holy spirit can restrain evil, why not just go all out and prevent evil?: ----Shall He prevent other's or yours first?
He's God - why does he have to do things in sequence, as if he's a mere man? Will he stalk the Earth killing the apostates one by one at Armageddon?
