We're starting to get off track here, but I see your point. I heard a guy, no clue who, say that the more you behave a certain way, the less likely you will do anything contrary to that behavior. So the more God acts according to His standards, the less likely He will do anything contrary to it. Since He is eternal, and He said that He never changes, it's safe to say that He never does anything unrighteous. To the thought of a higher standard, the Christian God would no longer be the One and Only, automatically making Him a liar, and monotheism a farce. There is no logical way to overcome that idea, if you want to say that there is a higher standard than God.
But I got 2 other points to make: First, in my analysis of the story about Elisha on his way to Mt. Carmel, I made a couple mistakes. I trusted so callled scholars from Lee Strobel's Case for Faith, and I had forgotten the importance of what the "youths" were doing. They were insulting Elisha's prophethood, and Elisha must have gotten seriously ticked, because when they insulted him, they also insulted the One who appointed him (God). About Lot, he was called righteous, but no one in the OT would have been (nor did any of them claim to be) perfect. Its the old "we're all human" argument
This message has been edited by christ_fanatic, 10-17-2005 09:24 PM