A moral God?

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>   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?


Walt Loy:

Definitely a red herring.  Whether or not the Bible supports the original sin
doctrine, is it moral for God to order the massacre of non-combatants?  The
whole original sin question merely gives a different official reason for the
massacre.  In any event, either justification, original sin or
four-century-delayed revenge, flies in the face of those verses that forbid
punishing descendants for the crimes of their ancestors.  This has been amply
argued in SR and never effectively refuted.

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