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Originally posted by LemonJelloWould you agree that what Hitler did to the Jews was a horrible crime, and can be regarded as Evil?
No, the formal argument would define God by the terms that many of his supporters insist on.
Assuming the existence of evil just assumes that there is some reasonable ethical treatment being used. This does not in any way imply the existence of your God. Once you understand that no agent undergirds normativity, you'll have yourself a real epiphany.
This is a problem. The Gospels present a God who is available to all kinds of people. All kinds of statuses and states can come. All kinds of levels of education, morality, mental concentration, etc.
I invariably find that skeptics of the Bible restrict the way to truth in more and more narrow terms. The charge of exclusion and elitism must fall on them.
"Whosever believes into Him" is universal or nearly so. It is wide open and accomadating.
The skeptics of the Bible make truth approachable only to those few elite brilliant theorists who master many metaphysical abstractions, pro and con.
You skeptics of the Bible always make the way to know vital truths about life more and more narrow and inaccesible to all but the elite thinkers.
This is not a statement of anti-intellectualism. This is a statement that skeptical thinkers are hundreds of times more exclusive than God is.
Originally posted by jaywillHow convenient that reality should conform to the mental limits of the only modestly intelligent.
This is a problem. The Gospels present a God who is available to all kinds of people. All kinds of statuses and states can come. All kinds of levels of education, morality, mental concentration, etc.
I invariably find that skeptic of the Bible restrict the way to truth in more and more narrow terms. The charge of exclusion and elitism must fall on them. ...[text shortened]... This is a statement that skeptical thinkers are hundreds of times more exclusive than God is.