HeyBub wrote:
Morris Dovey wrote:
If a leaders "falsehoods" are considered evidence of evil, what
about God lying to Abraham?
If you spell "God" with a capital G, then I would suggest that
standing in judgment of Him might not be your best choice.

Why not? There are no commandments against it. I had a (Jewish) pathologist
tell me: "You don't think God makes mistakes? Just look at the Gall Bladder!
He should have asked me..."

Who's to say He hasn't? It may have been left as a challenging puzzle
for some bright pathologist to redesign so that some geneticist could
develop the required DNA modification for implementation.

You make a good point, though. To the Christian, God/Jesus is without
imperfection. To the Jew, God sometimes ****s up. Here's an example:

Adam and Eve, and all who came after them, were vegetarians. By the time of
Noah, the world was so hoplessly depraved, wicked, and corrupt that God had
to destroy it and start over. God, having learned from his mistake,
permitted Noah and his descendants to eat meat. Many are of the opinion that
God is, right now, re-designing the gall bladder.

And perhaps he's outsourcing the job...

So, if you think things are bad now, just imagine how tough things would be
if everybody was a vegetarian!

Only if you subtract one from "everybody" !

To get back to the point, it is sometimes necessary to deliberately miss the
mark when attempting to follow ideals.

I suspect that most folks miss their mark more often then they like even
without deliberate efforts.

The Catholic Church takes the position that "No good can come from an
immoral act," yet they (sometimes reluctantly) absolve the penitent if he
makes his regrets, as in: "But officer, I HAD to hit him. He spit on my Ol'
Miss button!"



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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/