God cannot be judged by anyone so in that respect God is not a moral agent.
That's clearly false, since I just did exactly that.
I think you are confusing "can't" with "not allowed to (in your opinion)".
If your god isn't a moral agent, then he is amoral and robotic. Also unable to make any kind of moral judgement about anything or anyone.
You keep shooting yourself in the foot.
God is the one who judges everyone else.
What would that category be?
Psychopath? Sociopath? AI robot?
God being displeased with how humans had changed to be doing evil all the times is fine. He know what they would do but that does not mean He was going to be happy with what they would do. He was displeased with humans and judged them.
Which is retarded an immoral. I already explained why.
It's like if I would get my wife pregnant while knowing in advance a mass murdering Hitler would be the result and then be "displeased" with his behavior and punishing him for it. It's ridiculous. He never had a choice, since I knew in advance what would happen. I set it up. I knew what he would grow up to be and went along with it anyway. It would be entirely my fault.
Not to mention the implication for free will, if that mass murdering Hitler's actions were already determined even before he was born.
I can only repeat myself.... if I knew in advance that getting my wife pregnant on day X would result in unleashing a Hitler upon the world.... I wouldn't get her pregnant on day X. You see, I actually have some moral responsibility. Knowing the horrible result, I would immediately stop myself. That is the moral thing to do.
But your god doesn't seem to care. Which makes sense if you are of the opinion that he isn't a moral agent. A robot wouldn't care either. He'ld just carry out his program. To "care" is not part of an amoral agent's vocabulary.
But you also claim your god is loving. So once again, we have a self-refuting belief.
If that son is the only one involved then maybe. But there are always more people involved when God is judging people and God considers those people.
God has a right and probably a duty to get rid of the evil ones for the sake of the others. And if getting rid of the evil ones meant getting rid of innocents in the process, so be it.
The moral bankrupcy of apologists never ceases to amaze me.
Death is not the end and everyone is judged individually later. In the meantime God can give some super riches and make others poor and needy.
God can give one person a wonderful life with health for 100 years and God can make others suffer in a short life.
Like an amoral psychopathic overlord playing with an ant farm for his own entertainment.
What swell persona.
Well yes, according to someone who does not see God for who and what He is. God is different and there is always an exception for Him because of He actually is the special case.
And the special pleading continues. It's like a celestial north korea. There are "special rules" for the Dear Leader.
As I said, you judge God from ignorance of reasons that God has and without any idea of what and what God is and the authority He has and whether in the long run His actions can be seen as culpable.
And we arrive at moral bankrupcy argument nr 98434864: "might makes right".
Well if I read a novel I can judge a character not just on what they do but on reasons for that etc etc.
In the case of the Bible God, skeptics go right for God's throat and ignore the overall story and reasons etc and then claim to be rational.
I did not ignore the "overall story". In fact, it's on that very basis that I form my judgement.
Yes, really. It's literally that. Punishing a scapegoat while letting the actual guilty go free.
Letting us off the hook means just saying, "Do what you like, it's OK, I don't care, you're all saved anyway".
Yes, that's exactly what christianity is.
Adolf Hitler can have a death bed conversion and "repent" and he's off the hook.
Meanwhile, according to that same christian doctrine, a stand up moral atheist who only has minor transgressions like a white lie left and right who dies as an unbeliever, gets eternal torture or whatever it is that you believe to be the "punishment".
Moral bankrupcy from start to finish.
As I said, we are off the hook when it comes to saving ourselves,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, because we cannot pay the price for our sins.
But being faithful to the Lord is optional in our life.
Jesus came for people who know they are guilty and cannot be good, He loved us as sinners and came to lead us out of there to salvation and also a better life.
This is God's mercy and grace in action to overcome judgement that we deserve.
God knows we can't help ourselves but loves us anyway.
Where justice comes in is that Jesus, who did not deserve to die, died anyway and paid the price for all of us, because He was worth it.
And where justice for Jesus comes in is that Jesus He rose from the dead.
True mercy is to just forgive people without requiring innocent people to be killed as a "sacrifice".
Also, mercy and justice can not co-exist. Mercy is the suspension of justice.
Another self-refuting aspect of your religion.
But you are making the skeptic irrational thinking error that says that God knew about it and so it could not have happened any other way and so God forced people to sin because He knew what they would do.
There's nothing irrational about that. If you have perfect foreknowledge, then that literally means it can't turn out any other way. From that it follows that the future is set in stone. Meaning every future action taken, every future decision made, is already known before it occurs.
That LITERALLY means that you have no choice in what you do and decide. At best, you only have the illusion of such. That even includes your feelings of repentance.
It includes everything and anything.
Either the future is predetermined or it isn't.
Perfect foreknowledge can only exist in a universe that is predetermined from start to finish.
To have free will, the ability to freely chose between A and B by definition means that your decision is only known for certain once you made it. Not before that.
Suppose your god knows that next year I will grab a kalashnikov, go to work, and gun down all my collegues. Tell me: do I have the actual ability to not do it? I would prove god's fore-knowledge wrong if I were to decide to back out of it, right? So how could I? He could only "know" that future if that action of mine is predetermined.
You can't have it both ways.
And what are you complaining about anyway?
I'm not complaining. I'm just point out the self-refuted concept of god you are pitching.
Obviously I have nothing to complain about because to me this is just like debating the morality of Thanos in the Marvel universe.
Thanos and marvel have less plot holes then the bible myths though.
Whether you say humans are guilty or not, God took the guilt on Himself. God was punished for us because He loves us so much.
Certainly in God's eyes humans are guilty and need a saviour.
Again, by his own fault. You haven't said anything to show otherwise.
In context of this lore, the "crime" we seem to be guilty of is to exist as humans.
As The Hitch once so famously said: "
Created sick and commanded to be well".
It does matter if you don't analyse the whole story and the characters correctly and just concentrate on incidents in the story with no overview of the story and no insight into the character of God and who He is in the story and what His authority is and where the story is leading.
I took all of that into account.
The only difference between you and me is that I have no incentive to be apologetic about it.
True, at least for us, is that the imagined long term benefits are not justification for our actions.
God's actions in the Bible can be seen as consistent with a good God however.
In my world, no act of genocide or infanticide can ever be consistent with "good" anything.
You'ld have to be morally bankrupt to think otherwise in my view.
No I suppose you are guilty like everyone.
Of what? Being a human?
I guess the idea of God being responsible for all evil is just part of the the reasoning if there is a God.
No. If that is what you took from the points I raised then indeed none of it properly registered in your head.
I'm talking in context of the story. For the sake of points, I'm assuming it is all true.
Again, we are perfectly capable of doing so.
We can also debate the moral character of Thanos from the Marvel Universe. There is no need to actually believe it is all reality in order to do so.
Your "supposed" guilt. Are you responsible or not?
In my view of reality, everyone is always responsible for his own actions and decisions.
In my view of reality, no amount of scapegoating can ever absolve people of such responsibility.
In context of the biblical lore as you are presenting it, clearly god himself is responsible since he deliberatly set everything up to play out according to "his plan" and we puny humans aren't capable of having it play out in another way.
Christians acknowledge their guilt, no "supposed guilt" involved.
Yeah, christianity is a giant guilt trip coupled with emotional blackmail.