A common justification for the Biblical genocides is that God, as the creator of mankind, has the right to take life if he wants.
William L Craig seems to be the most vocal proponent of this idea, for example here, where he is talking about God's command to kill all the Canaanite peoples:
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/slaug...the-canaanites
If God is free to kill us when convenient, why should we imagine he is not free to lie to us when convenient?
Think about this. I imagine very very few of the people reading this have every killed anyone, but who can honestly say they have never told a lie? Lying is much easier than killing, much less of a wrong. If you admit God can kill whoever he wants, how can you possibly deny that God can likewise lie whenever he wants?
God lied in the Bible:
Adam did not die when he ate the fruit (he did eventually die, but that was inevitable, only if he ate from the Tree of Life would he live forever). God lied to Adam (and the serpent told the truth!). Why should we believe God about anything?
William L Craig seems to be the most vocal proponent of this idea, for example here, where he is talking about God's command to kill all the Canaanite peoples:
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/slaug...the-canaanites
If God is free to kill us when convenient, why should we imagine he is not free to lie to us when convenient?
Think about this. I imagine very very few of the people reading this have every killed anyone, but who can honestly say they have never told a lie? Lying is much easier than killing, much less of a wrong. If you admit God can kill whoever he wants, how can you possibly deny that God can likewise lie whenever he wants?
God lied in the Bible:
Genesis 2:15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die."
Comment