Originally posted by dj2becker
If morality is absolute, it means that God in His Soverignity is the judge as to what is moral and what is immoral.
Why do you ask such "an ignorant and simple-minded person" as you put it, such a question? 😛
That aside.
Since God is the provider and sustainer of life in the first place I would say He has the right to take away which he has giv ...[text shortened]... ses to excercise his judgement upon the breakers of his moral law is really of little concern.
"He may even for that matter command people to wipe out nations in order to excercise his judgement upon those who have rejected His moral law".
What a bunch of craps! I suppose he commanded Osama to blow up the towers to kill thousands of people. Judgement upon
those who have rejected His moral law? What about those who have had no opportunity to accept nor reject, like all those unborn infants who died together with their mothers in the flood? God has no absolute moral law. If there is indeed a god (of the bible), he just amuses himself with setting restrictions upon us so that he can enjoy seeing us fail. If he can break his own law, so can we. If you want people to respect you, then you must behave respectably.
The way that God chooses to excercise his judgement upon the breakers of his moral law is really of little concern.
Well, this may come as a surprise to you, but quite a fair number of us
are concerned with a trigger-happy god who would commit murder on a grand scale. Maybe--just maybe--I wouldn't be so upset if he kill off all the rapists or serial killers on a grand scale. He can be selective since he can do anything as you claim? But no, he just simply flood the whole world and killed everyone except for a few dumbos.
No, I'm afraind your
absolute authority on morality is no good. We are not all dumb like you who would accept without justification this ridiculous 'law' just because a conceited mighty being says it is absolute. If god commands you to kill someone, would you do it? I wouldn't if there is no good justification for it, even if it means I'll be punished for disobidience. I'll take my chances. But I suppose you would obey without question, right? The rest of us, thankfully, have brains.