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- From: joeb@arden.linet.org (Joe Beiter)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Violence in the bible?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.201905.7140@arden.linet.org>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 20:19:05 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.031043.2988@arden.linet.org> <1993Jan02.215253.26727@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: The Courts of Chaos
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- In article <1993Jan02.215253.26727@jcnpc.cmhnet.org> mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus) writes:
- >Joe Beiter (joeb@arden.linet.org) wrote:
- >
- >A neat sidestep of the implicit question. Given my above scenario, am I
- >justified in executing the man who commitied adultery with Mrs. Henderson?
- >Why or why not.
-
- Oh sorry. I didn't think you were serious. You are not justified and would
- be guilty of murder.
-
- Assuming you are from the USA, you have no legal right to kill someone out
- side of some cases of self-protection. Socially its really none of your
- business what Mrs. Henderson does less of course you're Mr. Henderson.
-
- But how about a little equal time? Why do you find it hard to belive there
- is a God who is this interested in the human race? Solely because you've
- "Never seen him"? If there was a God, how would you expect him to act that
- you would know he is real?
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-
-
-
- : God (of The Bible) is not like us. You're talking a different set of scal
- >: here.
- >: >
- >: >If the "justice" is immoral by our limited standards, how can it be moral by
- >: >"different set of scales"? From human experience, justice tends to become m
- >: >humane as peoples philosophical basis expands.
- >:
- >: relativity.
- >
- >Duh! I must be really stupid, could you expand your one word reply.
- >
-
- Sorry, I didn't mean to imply.
-
- I'm thinking of Webster's 2 entry for the word. "the state of being dependent
- for existence on or determined in nature, value, or quality by relation to
- something else".
-
- What I mean is this, Our sense of justice is corrupted by our environment.
- Friends cheat on their spouses (with a wink), Criminals walk free when they
- have enough $$s etc... God is independent of our entire point of view.
- Shoot he has existed forever and will exist forever, has a bunch of monsters
- floating around him at all hours chanting "Holy Holy Holy" and you're amazed
- that his sense of justice is unlike yours?
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- >The Truth is still the Truth
- >Even if you choose to ignore it.
-
- Nice line. Mind if I use it on another net? ;-)
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