#592 | If a righteous soul such as Abraham or Lot had gone to God after hearing his command to slay the Amalekite infants, suggesting such an order was inconsistent with his claim to be loving, would/could God have relented? What could ever be evidence God was not loving?
#587 | Greg says God “sanitized” slavery by making it more kind and gentle than the slavery seen in neighboring cultures. How did God sanitize the killing of Amalekite infants by the Israelites? Was it more kind and more gentle than the way their pagan neighbors killed infants?
#583 | Christians seem to want to take exclusive ownership of love and forgiveness, but then quietly slip away when pressed for a comparison against non-believers. Is the power of the Holy Spirit and “renewing of the minds” of Christian actual evidenced? Is this not easily testable?
Is this notion perhaps an effect of a sheltered experience, often seen among Christians seldom in contact with non-Christians?
#568 | Isn’t it odd to claim as does Jon Noyes that ‘everything God does is love’, note his loving satisfaction at the screams of the damned, and hope to one day emulate this pure type of love God exemplifies? Will you also lovingly smile at the screams of the damned once perfectly loving as is God?
#436 | Jon Noyes claims agape love is self-sacrificial and transcendent. Yet this does not reflect scriptures. We are commanded not to love (agapao) the world (implying it is possible) and where Demas loved (agapao) this present world. Is this poor scholarship or mendacity?
#420 | If a wife defends her husband’s decade-long torturing of their child for lying by asserting he did so in love, citing his torturing of their oldest child for the younger child’s lie as evidence, what should we conclude about the couple? What makes this punishment unjust?
#326 | If you eternally tormented puppies for following a bark nature they neither asked for nor can avoid, could you escape accusations of illogic & cruelty if 1) you had created the puppies yourself or if 2) you killed one puppy to redeem those that worshiped you?
#312 | “You can’t destroy all the adults, and leave the babies laying there” says Greg referencing the Amalekite infants laying next to their parents who had been killed a moment before. Is hacking them into pieces the only clear option that occurs to normal people?
#310 | If the Christian God is indeed the God of the Universe, why would the rebellion of puny humans offend him so badly? If you made tiny, ant-like creatures, would their rebellion make you want to pull out your magnifying glass and torment them for rejecting you?
#268 | Imagine a man claims to love a girl with all his heart. Would he first threaten her with horrific consequences should she not believe in him, or would he first focus all his efforts on making his existence indisputable? What does the Christian God do?
#175 | If, in heeding the moral inclination to love rather than to kill infants, a Israelite soilder had hidden away an Amalekite infant from the other soilders hacking infants into pieces as God commanded, what punishment should he have received?
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