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From: southdar@tyrell.net (southdar)
Subject: Re: BABY KILLING JESUS!!!
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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 16:04:30 GMT
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readingp@yvax.byu.edu> wrote:
>rjo@webe.hooked.net (Robert Giras) writes:
>> So Timmy, I'll ask you;  
>>  
>>  
>> Why should we worship a bible claimed baby drowning god/jesus?  
>>  
>>  
>> Can you stick to the question?
>
>I'm not Tim, but if you don't mind, I'd like to address your question.
>	Lets start with the assumption that the Biblical record is correct. If
>thats the case, then 1) The world was wicked, meaning that the adults were
>commiting sins that could never be excused, nor would they ask for such
>forgiveness. THey were beyond any help that God could offer them. That is what
>free agency is about.
>	2) Yes there were babies and little children, who in the sight of God
>had committed no sin.
>	What would happen to these children should they grow up in that
>civilization? Wouldn't they accept the ways of thier parents, and thus condemn
>themselves? Or would they choose to accept thier God? 
>	If indeed God is merciful, and thought that the coming generation would
>be saved, then he would have spared them. But the truth is, the preceding
>generation had condemned themselves, and thier children with them. Ask a
>sociologist about changing the patterns of child abuse, or alcoholism or any
>other multiyude of sins from one generation to the next. The prospectes aren't
>good. 
>	Instead, by destroying that generation, the cycle was ended, and
>allowed a new beginning. As for the innocents, are they condemned to hell with
>all the rest? would that be proper for a merciful God? No. They were saved in
>Heaven. And to God, that is right. Yes, he cares about our lives here, but the
>ultimate design is to bring us once more into his presence, or as many of us
>who will come.

The trouble that I have with the above arguements is that within Bosnia,
the Serbs use similar arguements to justify the slaughter of Muslims and
Croations, Croations use them to justify the slaughter of Serbs and Muslims,
and Muslims use them to justify the slaughter of Serbs and Croations.  
And these arguements are not just limited to Bosnia as a means of justifying
wholesale human rights abuse.  The above arguements are nothing more than
a rationalization for the hypocritiocal destruction of those people who are
different than you.

I find it rather strange that anybody can call a God "merciful" who
can with "love" condemn anybody to everlasting suffering in hell.

Finally, what does this thread have to do with evolution or creationism?
Yours Truly
Darby South
