why did God kill many people?

[Kilgore Trout]

haha - well, that never happened...

Are you being intentionally obtuse, or do you selectively avoid reading for comprehension?

I agree that it never happened. However, that hypothetical scenario would make god a murderer.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Are you being intentionally obtuse, or do you selectively avoid reading for comprehension?

I agree that it never happened. However, that hypothetical scenario would make god a murderer.

How exactly does a hypothetical situation make someone a murderer?

 

[painted wolf]

Because he really really wants god to be a murderer.... and to not exist...

A non-existent murderer.... or he just wants to feel bad for believing in a nonexistent murderer god?

wa:do

 

[Kilgore Trout]

How exactly does a hypothetical situation make someone a murderer?

Well, you can only apply a hypothetical situation to a hypothetical entity.

Hypothetically, if god killed nearly all life on earth, via a worldwide flood, this would, hypothetically, make him a murderer. Do you somehow disagree with this?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Because he really really wants god to be a murderer.... and to not exist...

A non-existent murderer.... or he just wants to feel bad for believing in a nonexistent murderer god?

wa:do

No, I just really really want people to be logically consistent. I know...it's a pipe dream.

 

[painted wolf]

I'm not sure I'm following your logic... hypothetically speaking.

wa:do

 

[Caladan]

What an incredibly wordy way of not answering the question. Kudos to you.

Its simply that you are too narrow minded to see beyond your literal reading of the bible. in other words, you are no different than a fundamentalist believer, its just that you are a fundamentalist non-believer.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I'm not sure I'm following your logic... hypothetically speaking.

wa:do

That's nice.

 

[themadhair]

I'm not sure I'm following your logic... hypothetically speaking.

If I invented a weather machine and wiped out 99.999% of the human population by flooding the planet, and carried out the act deliberately, would I be a murderer?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Its simply that you are too narrow minded to see beyond your literal reading of the bible. in other words, you are no different than a fundamentalist believer, its just that you are a fundamentalist non-believer.

So, that's another non-answer? Got it - thanks!

 

[Kilgore Trout]

If I invented a weather machine and wiped out 99.999% of the human population by flooding the planet, and carried out the act deliberately, would I be a murderer?

How many ways can people avoid answering this question?

Let's watch...

 

[angellous_evangellous]

No, I just really really want people to be logically consistent. I know...it's a pipe dream.

Keep trying. :biglaugh:

The establishment of inconsistency would be useful, which you have completely failed to do in this case.

 

[Caladan]

So, that's another non-answer? Got it - thanks!

You received plenty of answers through out the thread, you are just frustrated that they are not in lined with your simple argument.

 

[Autodidact]

Basically, what it comes down to is this, for various reasons, God can do anything, no matter how horrible, how completely immoral, and God is still perfect and great. There is nothing you can conceive of, including killing every human being on earth, that God could do and still not be great. So "great" and "good" are defined as "capable of any horror," and when people say that God is good, great, or perfect, they mean in the sense of "including being capable of the most horrific atrocities imaginable. Neat system, what?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

You have got plenty of answers through out the thread, you are just frustrated that they are not in lined with your simple argument.

Keep telling yourself that.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Keep trying. :biglaugh:

The establishment of inconsistency would be useful, which you have completely failed to do in this case.

So you're not going to answer the question either? Got it - thanks!

 

[painted wolf]

Since the flood didn't happen... what does it matter?
Why is god a murderer over a cautionary tale?

Is Stephen King a murderer?

wa:do

 

[themadhair]

Since the flood didn't happen... what does it matter?
Why is god a murderer over a cautionary tale?

Is Stephen King a murderer?

This would be what ats meant by avoiding the question.

 

[painted wolf]

I'm not avoiding it... I honestly don't understand it.

wa:do

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Since the flood didn't happen... what does it matter?
Why is god a murderer over a cautionary tale?

Is Stephen King a murderer?

wa:do

No, but characters in his books are, within the fictional worlds he created. Would you describe the character of god in the bible a murderer, based on his intentional killing of nearly all life on the planet?

It's a pretty simple question really.