Ferocious Aardvark wrote:...........
I take it these are the questions you keep rabbitting on about?
Quote:So, if I understand Kirkstaller's latest comedic efforts, it's like this:
Some guy grabs a hold of the Ark, as one of the oxen stumbles. Presumably wanting the thing not to fall and be damaged.
This gets God mad. Kirkstaller does not explain why sych a selfless act could reasonably annoy anyone, let alone a God, who of course knows why the guy is selflessly trying to avoid damage to this here Ark.
Despite having always know this guy would choose to do that, God loses his temper. Odd, that. Especially for a God.
And he is so annoyed that he smites the poor bugger dead. Kirkstaller does not explain on what possible basis a just God would lose his temper over someone trying to be helpful, let alone end their life.
So presumably, having killed the guy, God then immediately has to forgive him, and off to Heaven he goes? Or was this minor act sufficient to send the guy to the flames of eternal hell?
It was an act of great blasphemy. The Bible tells us there is a heaven and a hell. Where do you think he ended up?
Quote:And finally, as a catchall safeguard, even if (or maybe because) he can't explain any of this, kirkstaller falls back on the weird claim that God can't murder people. He can't? Thought he was supposed to be omnipotent?
Not physically impotent, it's more about the definition of murder. Murder can only be committed by people. Like I said earlier, you would label a shark, a tarantula or prostate cancer a murderer. Murder has only ever existed between men, since Cain and Abel in fact.
If you say he is not omnipotent due to this, then I wish to remind you that true omnipotence would allow God to overcome logical and definitional paradoxes.
Quote:Come on kirkstaller, let us have the benefit of your reasoning here. Pack in the one liners, and Cantona-esque rejoinders like "it's not murder because sharks are not murderers", and at leats try to make a coherent explanation of your crackers point that if god murders you, it isn't murder. Or are you saying God is an orca, and can't help it?
See above. Good luck on trying to secure that conviction on spontaneous human combustion.