Is the Abrahamic god above the Law?
Honestly, this is why I respect Dharmic religions better, as morality applies to literally everyone and everything.
would a parent make a rule and then break it?
The hardest part of growing up is realizing your parents didn't follow their own rules.
1 is unnatural, it takes 2 to create life.
What about asexual reproduction?
what vibrates and what doesn't?
Put your hands on all the parts and find out.
In other words, if there is conflict between what God says and what men say, then Christians choose to obey God.
But how many actually get their words from God?
Is the God of the Bible a dictator, or rather a Benevolent Benefactor.
Dictator with an amazing talent to make people believe Benevolent Benefactor.
Rather wasn't it Satan who had depraved indifference because besides Job, Satan also challenges ALL of us
God didn't have to take the bait, though.
We can all make a reply to the one who taunts God which is Satan
God's kind of a wuss if Satan can manipulate Him so easily.
However, I find the God of the Bible never puts Himself above the Law. I can't find an actively broken rule.
No killing or coveting? Really?
God could Not go back nor break His ' Do not eat from the forbidden tree or you will die ' Law.
They didn't die, though.
Since the God of the Bible is also Creator (singular) then as being Creator then He would know what is best.
This doesn't follow.
Like an inventor who gives instructions on the best way his invention works and provides an owner's manuel book.
You've never bought something that didn't work like the manual stated, either because the manual wasn't accurate or all the parts weren't included?
The Golden Rule always works when applied in one's life style,
The S&M folks should be allowed to treat others the way they want to be treated?
to have self-sacrificing love for others as Jesus has.
He refunded the sacrifice three days later, though.
After all, according to
Revelation 12:12, Satan brings ' woe ' to Earth for us.
This is why reading almost exclusively Paul or John will be wrong: the Flood wasn't from Satan, the drama in the Exodus wasn't from Satan, etc.
No one innocent/righteous will be in harm's way.
But as all humans have been labeled as evil, it gives him "permission" to kill off everyone, including babies and such.
Besides, the Book of Job proves that with a bit of manipulation God is totally willing to smite righteous people.
Both Job and Jesus under adverse conditions proved Satan a liar and so can we.
Both also begged for the suffering to stop. So ...
Permission or allowed a temporary adverse condition for both Job and Jesus.
If a human does what God allowed for Job and Jesus, they'd be put under the jail.
Both Job and Jesus proved Satan a liar and so can we.
But they both begged for it to stop and wondered why this was happening to them...?
It wasn't just Pharaoh, but according to
1 Samuel 6:6, the Egyptians also hardened their hearts.
Samuel must've forgotten the verse where God specifically hardens Pharoah's heart just so He could use this an excuse to murder people. Even infants. I have a hard time believing some hour-old kid is evil, but hey, first born, so ....
There were nine previous plagues, and instead of stopping they would Not let the Israelites go.
There were multiple attempts to let them go and Moses kept moving the goalposts.
That meant the death of their first born also meant the death of a god, bringing a severe blow to their false religion.
How can you kill the god of a false religion?
Satan I find did Not challenge God's power or strength, so he must have realized God's mightiness.
He challenged God's morality. God took the bait.
Both faithful Job and Jesus, even under adverse conditions, met Satan's challenge and proved Satan wrong.
What were their options? Job and Jesus were going to die anyway, from different reasons. They both pleaded with God to STOP.
That's gotta be it. I mean... would God execute innocent children whose greatest "sin" was merely being born to the "wrong" sort of people in God's estimation? Would He do that?
Not JUST that, but God is so racist that apparently "they all look alike", because He can't figure out a Hebrew from an Egyptian without a literal sign on the door.
Even by Revelation, God apparently can't figure out His own team members without some sort of price tag or something present. Our omniscient God, ladies and gentlemen ....
Plus, the first born in Egypt could have been someone 30+ years old, Not just minors.
But is it moral to kill the first born who JUST exited the womb? What the hell did THEY do?
We can Not read hearts, but God can.
Apparently not, if the only way to be spared was to paint your doorway with blood because God is so incompetent He can't even figure out who His own people are.
He knows when it reaches the point of no more hope that the minors of such people will grow up any different that the parent. As the twig is bent so the tree does grow.
I'm sorry, I thought God could make living beings out of dirt or bone. I didn't realize basic parenting 101 was over His head.
Adam threw us ' under the bus ' Not God.
But God drove the bus over us.
Let's say the angel hadn't made it in time to halt Abraham's hand - whose would be at fault in that case?
Xena's, if I recall.
