The Biblical Actions of the Christian God are Inconsistent with Its Biblical Attributes (et al)

"There are *perceived inconsistencies to God's Bible because God's standards (which He holds himself to) and those standards, which He holds us to, are in conflict." You reposted in three hours. I feel kind of dirty. I must confess I do not believe that you read all of that information in a meaningful way. I wish to encourage you to reread all of that information and take some time doing so. To prove to you that you did not read= the quote you gave from Justin Martyr shows you did not understand the words that preceded the statement. He was teaching Jews in that they were contradictory. The entire context showed that an intensely knowledgeable group of Jews did not respond because Justin made a great point. Why did they not pick that apart as you did? Please reread and take the statement in the context of the entire work. I realize some of this material is incredibly new to you. I will try to summarize your rebuttal and point you in a direction that will aid you in restudying the information. 1.I said 10 but you choose 5 – Fantastic! 2.Marriage has been around for a very long time – The "allowances" are necessary for you to understand. We are not contesting the validity of the Bible, only the perceived inconsistencies that come from a lack of knowledge about the Bible. God created Marriage as the Bible teaches. We are looking at how the Bible teaches the information that you need clarity on, not whether you agree with the content. God created systems that allow us to sin but stop us from the really bad sins. See the story of David in the Bible. David raped BethSheba the wife of one of His mighty men. He then tried to trick him. Failed. Murdered him and seventy thousand others in the army just to cover up his sin. God called him out on it. God then stated you had so many wives, I would have given you more. Having more than one wife is a sin. God would have given David more wives to sate his lust to avoid him from doing a really bad sin, like rape which then led to murdering thousands. Hence God "appears" to contradict if you do not have knowledge of the situation. 3."The Laws and allowances are not a part of this debate" – As I just pointed out in the readdress of 3 that "allowances" for sin if you do not understand appear to show an inconsistency with God. It is not God who is inconsistent but rather man. 4."This makes no sense... just because some people have sinned it's OK to commit genocide? That's simply nuts." – The website should have clarified much of the information. Here is the flow of logic as an excerpt. 1.1. The biblical God CANNOT commit any unjust act (Authority: theological tradition) 2.2. God ordered the killing of children (Authority: biblical text) 3.3. The killing of children can never be a 'just' act, regardless of competing ethical demands in a given situation. (Authority: someone's personal moral intuition) 4.4. God, therefore , ordered an 'unjust act'. (authority: substitution of terms) 5.5. The ordering of an 'unjust act' is itself an 'unjust act' (authority: not sure--this is somewhat controversial in ethical theory, but I will grant it here for the purposes of illustration) 6.6. The biblical God, therefore, committed an unjust act. (authority: substitution of terms) 7.7. Therefore, the biblical God CAN commit an unjust act. (authority: from the actual to the possible) You see in this a failing in the Logic of point 3. It is personal moral intuition you are pointing to. First, the Bible never commands Genocide in the true sense of the word. The link addresses that. Second, you are assuming that all of the acts of wiping out a people was a bad thing. You again did not look at the content to see the evilness of the people. God was patient in Genesis 15. He waited 430 years until they were completely evil i.e. so far gone they never would have repented. To address Children you will see that God has no problem sending them to heaven. He just brings them home. Again, according the teachings of the Bible and not your personal belief system. http://therefinersfire.org... 5."So... in other words, God lays down laws he knows we will break and then punishes us for breaking them. Contradictory to a moral and just god..." - When you understand the principles in the Bible you come to understand that the letter of the Law was not the important thing but the spirit behind the Law was. Hence Jesus could summarize the Old Testament in two commandments. "Love God with all your heart mind and soul." And "Love others as yourself". Though this next part summarizes your rebuttal to the content of my last post, I do not concede in any way that you understood a bit of the information I posted. 1.On Slavery – You did not understand the Website. Hopefully I can clarify for you. You who are unbelievers are "enslaved to sin". Redemption of Jesus Christ is redemption from Slavery. That is the purpose of the Kinsman Redeemer Laws. You will have to study up on the topic for rebuttal. What you posted lacked any knowledge on the subject. 2.On Righteousness – I "performed" a red Herring. I wish to point you back to the passage and the entirety of the book of Hebrews in the Bible. The passage in Hebrews 4 was meant to show you there are levels of Righteousness according to the Bible that you may have missed the first time you read the Bible. Jesus was without sin and had…perfect righteousness. Anyone else will inherently only be able to obtain a level of righteousness that is below that. Your assertion that this is a contradiction comes from a lack of understanding not a problem with a discrepancy in the Bible as your other points do. Also it should be noted that God did not allow the daughters to be so molested. 3.On Perfection of God's Law – you did not address My point. I could be wrong but I think you dodged the point on the fact that people made the Old Covenant invalid and not God. That is what Hebrews the entire book is teaching. We now have a New Covenant that we cannot make invalid. Please reread the information and ask for clarity if I spoke in a confusing manner. 4. On Mercy and War/Peace – You did not address any of the content. I believe an issue would have been that you may have needed more than 3 hours to understand the information and website content. I would restate but I only have 8000 Characters. Please Reread. All in all I desperately want you to understand my points not just pick them apart. You picking them apart only shows that you do not understand anything I said. You spoke without knowledge. We have seen that: 1.Slavery is not an issue for God. God is concerned with your eternal welfare first and will use bad things to save you. Then He turns his attention to this life and your relationship with him. Basically get right with God or Bad things happen to you so that you will get right with God. 2.You do not have a clear understanding of righteousness. Lot was an "afflicted" righteous man. You did not know prior to this debate that the Bible teaches levels of righteousness and Lot was not accurate in desiring to send out his daughters to the mob. 3.You did not understand that People invalidated the Old Covenant by not keeping it. It is not an inconsistency in the Biblical teaching but a prepared New Covenant being laid out. Hebrews is teaching the Jewish people please remember the language will be directly suited to them. 4.God is merciful and patient, He waited 430 years for the Land of Canaan to become so destitute it needed to be wiped out. We see also that God wipes out all the Bad people. We also saw it is better for children to die and go to heaven and never reach the age of understanding to choose the evil the parent nations were doing. We saw also that a nation wiped out for its evil is a Just thing. God even wiped out the Jews for their evil though he did always maintain a small number of people to rebuild the population.