A moral God?

errancy@infidels.org errancy@infidels.org
Mon, 31 May 1999 16:02:38 EDT (00928198958, 20038ae8.248444de@aol.com)


  Matthew Bell

 You yourself were recently engaged in dialogue with F.Till on whether the
 Bible teaches original sin or not. Your position was then that it did. So
 if the Bible teaches original sin then it teaches that all before God are
 sinners at enmity with Him and are justly exposed to His wrath. For those
 who believe the Bible teaches original sin it follows that they hold the
 consequence of that doctrine, i.e. that ALL are hell-deserving sinners. If
 not, why not?
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Joe Alward:

The logic in the paragraph appears to be without flaw, in my opinion.  
However, this is a red herring, I think.  Let's get straight to the heart of 
the matter of inerrancy and the alleged divine inspiration of the Bible 
writers:

Do you believe that the author of the Amalekite Slaying story knew that the 
reason the sucklings were killed was that they were in a state of sin?  If 
your answer is Yes, will you explain why he didn't say so, and instead left 
us with the impression that revenge was the motive for the killings?