Cofty » So murdering millions of innocent children in natural disasters is for the greater good is it?
So who gets to define murder? And how does one rightfully charge God with murder when He is the chief judge and arbiter? If God created man and if man has free agency and is an eternal being, like God, being created in His image, then He is quite incapable of being murdered by God, for his mortal body ceases to exist and his spirit continues on. The body, according to Christian theology, is merely a shell (and a burdensome one at that). People don't cease to exist at death, and those children you seem so fond of protecting are, in reality, are actually adults in spirit. Even Jesus, the greatest, wisest and most powerful of all, was at his birth in mortality, a spewing, gurgling and helpless infant who had to be rushed off to Egypt by his parents to escape being murdered by Herod. But what was He before He was born? He was the great Yahweh, the God of Israel, the One who taught Moses, the Great Lawgiver, for hours at a time. So what do you know of those who were “murdered” in natural disasters or by God's hand?
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all!
Where wast thou when He laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
For all you know, you were one of those sons of God...or not, how would you know? “What is man, that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the gods, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.” As John declared, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
Jehovah's Witnesses see man as being little more than an afterthought on God's part, but who knows the width, breadth and depth of God's works and His plans? You can speak with some knowledge about evolution, Cofty, but your knowledge of God and His ways is sorely lacking, as is any mortal's. You can only only build up strawmen, then knock them down; but it's amazing how people like you feel qualified to sit in judgment of God. To put it in terms you can understand, it would be like a 4-year old sitting in judgment of Darwin's theories.
Just Fine » Mormons made up a whole book, given to a crook on golden tablets only he could read. It tells of the Lamanites, Nephites, and others who supposedly came to North America, and yet there is not a shred of historical evidence to support it. All religions have their own delusions. Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses just think their beliefs make them morally superior to everyone else. It must be hard being the chosen one of God.
Uh-huh...and tell me, how, exactly, you know there's not a shred of historical evidence to support the Book of Mormon? Did you read that somewhere? People say there's no evidence, but not those who have actually studied the evidences. Do you even know where the events in the book were supposed to have taken place? Do you know that the places Nephi described as taking place in the old world actually exist and that no one knew anything about them in 1830? How would that be possible? Joseph Smith had never been to that part of the world, nor had anyone else living in the Western Hemisphere. Even Bedouins in the Arabian Peninsula tended to be locals -- they didn't travel all over the land. Yet if Smith wrote the Book of Mormon, he would have had to have traveled it. So, again, how would you know there's no historical evidence?
