In answering another's question, I realised I needed to ask this myself. Christians reading this - please understand, I've struggled with this for so many years now- if anyone can answer my problem, I can't tell you how happy that'd make me.
I think I believe in a more powerful being- but I'm not sure I like him. I'm a questioning agnostic, I guess. My particular problem with the Christian God is inconsistency and favourtism. This is well illustrated with the story of Moses.
God 'hardened Pharaoh's heart' so he wouldn't let the Hebrews go. If this is true, then not only does God meddle with this man's free will and as such is just as culpable for the sin, but it is because of Pharaoh's unwillingness to let the Hebrews go that God kills every first-born Egyptian. All those innocent lives sacrificed for the sins of one man- one man who was being controlled like a puppet.
How do you square this in your mind?
(Exodus chapters 8 - 12, especially Ex 10:1-2)
2006-06-20
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