....Or if I could easily prevent an injury, but choose not to?
....Or if I could easily prevent a human tragedy, but choose not to?
Am I immoral if I KNEW an invention of mine would cause millions of people to die?
Am I immoral if I had the strength to hold back a tidal wave, yet allowed it to drown thousands of people?
Am i immoral if I allowed you to suffer for eternity, simply because you refused to love me?
IS GOD IMMORAL?
And people wonder where we Atheists get our morality!
2007-11-23 15:57:27 · 12 answers · asked by Yinzer from Sixburgh 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good arguments.
The things you mention are some of the reasons why some people believe that God (or Gods), while powerful, might not be *all*-powerful. "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" by Harold Kushner is a book which takes that view, for example. In other words, God wants to stop all suffering, but can't.
The question of hell, however, is different. If God "judges" and decides where people should go after they die, then any suffering in hell is his doing.
One of the things that makes the least sense about Hell is that it really serves no purpose other than to instill fear into the living. After all, in Christian thinking, there is no way out once you're there, so it's not like it's meant to be a place where people learn the error of their ways so that they can change to become better membrs of society. Eternal torment with no hope of escape? That's just plain sadistic, and the God that would create such a scenario can't reasonably be called loving. Therefore it really makes a lot more sense that the whole thing is just a fear tactic to keep people in the faith.
2007-11-23 16:08:28 · answer #1 · answered by kriosalysia 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This has always been the argument that disproves the possibility of a definable divinity. If God disowned Adam and Eve and threw them out of the garden of Eden for an act of disobedience, then God is a less loving parent than MOST parents in the world. If God demanded a blood sacrifice in his son for redemption, then God is not only a bad parent, but also a vicious murderer. If God gives comfort and guidance to some children of the world but not others, then God is a neglectful parent. All of these doctrines display a God with serious character flaws more common of a hardened criminal then a loving deity. Any time mankind tries to place finite descriptions upon the infinite, the arguments against those finite descriptions eventually back them into a corner until their only defense is to put their fingers in their ears and scream, "Nya, Nya, I can't hear you!"
2007-11-23 16:12:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately when we become aware of a crime or potential crime we have to make a choice. Do we support the victim or the victimizer? Which will you support?
2007-11-23 16:02:29 · answer #3 · answered by rico3151 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God may very well be immoral by human standards. But see he doesn't have to live up to human standards like "morality". Religion came up with that not God........God is about TRUTH. something in short supply now days.
2007-11-23 16:01:16 · answer #4 · answered by sisterzeal 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Is God immoral if He allows you just one more day to repent of your sins and be forgiven instead of tossing you into Hell because He cannot be in the presence of your sin?
2007-11-23 16:00:30 · answer #5 · answered by Ryan H 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Eze 33:11 Say unto them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die...?
2007-11-23 16:02:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
God is not immoral and even if you didn't do all those things you still would be.
2007-11-23 16:01:52 · answer #7 · answered by L.C. 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
No God is not immoral. And i pray that you don't die in your sin.
2007-11-23 16:04:08 · answer #8 · answered by JustMe 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
He who knoweth to do good and doeth not, doeth evil.
2007-11-23 16:04:07 · answer #9 · answered by guitarrman45 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not to mention deliberately causing rape and murder.
2007-11-23 16:05:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋