Yeah, this is S.S type scrutiny aimed to unearth the unweary Jew... could well answer why I said yes or no but wasn't given a chance to,
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You've taken a direct hit!
You have claimed that God exists, that she knows about suffering, wants to reduce it and can reduce it. But now you say you don't think that there is any higher purpose which explains why people die horribly of painful diseases. Why then does God allow it? Surely, a God which knows about, wants to stop and can stop suffering would put an end to pointless suffering.
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You've just taken a direct hit!
You claimed earlier that there is no basis for morality if God does not exist. But now you say that if God does exist, she cannot make what is sinful good and vice-versa. But if this is true, it means that God cannot be the basis of morality. If God were the basis of morality, then she could decide what is good and what is bad. The fact that you think that God cannot do this shows that things must be right or wrong independently of what God decides. In other words, God chooses what is right because it is right; things are not right just because God chooses them.
Because to God there is no right and wrong, yet to us on earth there is and has to be otherwise crass debauchery would obsecure our view of the heavens and prevent our evolution (which is spiritual not physical). Diffrent rule of thumb down here (terra) than there is up there.
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The serial rapist Peter Sutcliffe had a firm, inner conviction that God wanted him to rape and murder prostitutes. He was, therefore, justified in believing that he was carrying out God's will in undertaking these actions.
No, because his actions fall foul of universal law but beat on me anyway for apparently contradicing myself why don't you .lol. You can't apply logic (Left brained thinking) to such a broad and encompassing subject... main diffrence between western and eastern philosophy left and right brained ideals and ideas. You can't apply logic to the universe, you only get what
you get from it, little else.
... since when was God a she anyway .lol.