Post by CoolJGS☺ on Aug 8, 2018 15:22:52 GMT
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You can't but I'm not sure why that would be an issue. What would be the reason to stop God if there's no evidence of a need to do so?
Humans need to come to grips with the notion that they don't have the ability to stop most things so why be concerned about stopping God?
While not the point of that conversation, flexibility is not the same thing as acting in a new way and thus there is no new standard.
AJ was making an argument of both it is impossible for him to change his standards but still needing to be prepared in case the impossible happens and I was just giving an example of if the impossible happens. So God changing over to a new standard if possible would make him untrustworthy
God didn't tweak anything in the NT sop there was no change of standard there.
His standard did not change for the Flood as he has always stated wicked people will die.
I have no idea what you are talking about regarding earthquakes and punishing gay people. I assume that was a conversation I inherited from someone else.
Maybe. But how then can we stop a god, especially an all-powerful one, from doing what exactly it wants? (And why indeed would we want to, since it is reasonable to assume that an omniscient being would always know best.)
Humans need to come to grips with the notion that they don't have the ability to stop most things so why be concerned about stopping God?
Or, it can be argued that by acting in a new way, God being the final standard of all things and the like, has just gone and set a new standard.
AJ was making an argument of both it is impossible for him to change his standards but still needing to be prepared in case the impossible happens and I was just giving an example of if the impossible happens. So God changing over to a new standard if possible would make him untrustworthy
Like when God, er, Jesus, tweaked things in the NT. Thus, when Jehovah drowned the entire world it was, er, necessarily, the best genocide, ever. Recognising this perhaps, the Almighty told Noah that He would not do the flood thing over ever again. Gen 9 12-13. It did however leave Him free with earthquakes, sent to punish homosexuality, apparently.
His standard did not change for the Flood as he has always stated wicked people will die.
I have no idea what you are talking about regarding earthquakes and punishing gay people. I assume that was a conversation I inherited from someone else.