A moral God?

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>> MUSSELWHITE

>> You are forgetting the last part of Deut.24:16, "a person shall be put to

>> death for his own sin." You have not stated what sin the Amalakite babies

>> committed.

> 

> Matthew Bell

> Their sin was in their nature, i.e. being a sinner.

> 

> 1. Sinners are at enmity to God and justly exposed to his wrath.

> 2. All human beings are born sinners.

> 3. Babies are humans.

> 4. Babies are sinners.

> 5. Babies are at enmity to God and justly exposed to his wrath.


BAKKE
I think you have your arguments out of order if you are trying to
demonstrate how one premise leads to the next.  Shouldn't the correct
order be 2-3-4-1-5?  
In any case, how do you justify (2)?  Besides begging the question of
the existence of God, how does it apply to any human who (through no
fault of his own) has never heard of God and does not know what does or
does not constitute a "sin" against that deity?
How does this reasoning justify death as a penalty for sin?  Are all
sins, no matter how trivial, punishable by death?  If so, doesn't that
argue that coveting, stealing, lying, and not observing the Sabbath are
offenses which are equal to murder?
Finally, what "sin" are we all born with that immediately and absolutely
justifies the terminal wrath of God?  If we are all condemned right from
the start, why bother to obey any of God's commandments at all?

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