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Author Topic:   Salvation by faith and works : intellectually ridiculous?
robinrohan
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Message 58 of 172 (305266)
04-19-2006 2:39 PM
Reply to: Message 57 by Brian
04-19-2006 2:11 PM


Re: another perspective
What could God do to be forgiven for all the sins He has committed against mankind. Well, I can only think of one that would make up for God's atrocities over the centuries, but it beyond His power to do it.
There's a logical problem with proclaiming God immoral if we believe that morality is subjective. That which is subjective is no good as evidence of anything.

"The whole of life goes like this. We seek repose by battling against difficulties, and once they are overcome, repose becomes unbearable because of the boredom it engenders."--Pascal

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robinrohan
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Message 61 of 172 (305277)
04-19-2006 3:04 PM
Reply to: Message 59 by lfen
04-19-2006 2:50 PM


Re: another perspective
Your objective evidence to support this assertion is?
Moral rules have no deductive ground and so can only be true by a fluke, not as a result of a rational process. If morality is subjective, it's some ideas we just made up--and is no proof of anything. What we think is good or bad may not be good or bad. So there's no point in us proclaiming that God could be either good or bad, since we don't know good from bad. All we know are our subjective preferences.

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robinrohan
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Message 67 of 172 (305302)
04-19-2006 4:26 PM
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04-19-2006 3:40 PM


Re: Yahweh has attack of the guilts
why else would He try to make up for all the evil deeds He has done?
I didn't know He did that.

"The whole of life goes like this. We seek repose by battling against difficulties, and once they are overcome, repose becomes unbearable because of the boredom it engenders."--Pascal

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