Originally Posted by DBT
Originally Posted by stevelyn
Originally Posted by DBT
Originally Posted by RickyD
Originally Posted by nighthawk
Even easier. By definition God is not constrained by anything. Least of all someone's opinion of how he should act. We're interested in what our relationship with God actually is, not what we think it should be.


God is restrained in one thing: He is not man that He should lie or do anything wrong. The Lord is Righteous in all His ways and faithful in all He does.


How do you explain the atrocities in the OT?



What makes them atrocities?


By any standard of decency we have.

Is it considered fair and just to slaughter women and children, take the virgins as sex slaves?

This stuff doesn't come from any sort of God, it's just a reflection of the beliefs, attitudes and moral of the people who wrote their stories in their own time and place in history.

Which is why God had a makeover in new testament times, influence from Greek Philosophy, etc.....St Paul himself borrowing heavily from Greek philosophy from his time spent in Greece.


This was already addressed. Do you believe that the bombing of all citizens in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Berlin were immoral because the Axis powers refused to surrender under any terms? This was a much larger scale of indiscriminate destruction than the Canaanites who were given many opportunities and generations to reform before they were destroyed.

The NT makeover theory is logically unsustainable--the NT writers quoted the OT writers with no apologies--including the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.