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Post by FilmFlaneur on Nov 19, 2020 22:23:36 GMT
To which the answer is that it is largely irrelevant what I think. Better to ask: how do people act? Many today still insist on relying upon rules, yes, from the ancient world to guide them in this one and to judge others - through say, the moral precepts of the Bible (which one notes, rather ironically condemns killing). As for God, who we both agreed ordered mass killing, any human rules are plain immaterial. If we accept that He is unchanging, then he presumably feels just the same about ordering genocide as He did back in the day (at least He has promised not to drown the world again!) especially as you have often assured us that God is not to be seen as being anthropomorphic, with such human traits as mercy, or compassion etc. Have fun with the rest of the thread. Here we can all see your attempts to simplify everything down to your level of understanding. You might remember I mentioned that is a problem of yours before. It isn't that god changed, it is that the world changed. If there were whole societies of people as evil as some whole societies in the ancient world with father, mother, brother, and sister all murderers and rapists beyond redemption then it might be necessary to drop a big bomb somewhere carefully. Thankfully there are no such whole societies in the modern world, just small groups that are typically separate from most civilians. Can you please stop? Quit making up rules. You read somewhere the god is unchanging and you think that means even when conditions do change? That's not a rule. You don't make any rules, so please give up trying. "For I the Lord do not change" Mal 3:6. "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." Heb 13:8. God is not ... that he should change his mind." Num 23:19 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change." James 1:17 No sense of fickleness there. Perhaps it is you making up rules to suit a weak case. And, presumably children too, since they all had to go. What's the definition of hyperbole? It goes well with all that special pleading. But anyway, see ya.
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