[Phoenix-D]

first question: can you accept that a person can be so degenerate that there is no point to them living?
second question: can you accept that the same thing can happen to a society?
third question: can you accept that God has a right to judge if that has happened and a right to apply that judgement?

1. Maybe.
2. No.
3. No. Especially odd given that he's purpordly setting moral laws based on his code, but doesn't bother to give concrete proof of his presence to everyone. (not even his code- just existance at all, period)

i beleive the bible is true so long as it is translated correctly.

I belive that might be a cop out, since neither of us knows the original Languages. Point taken, but I think the problems would still be there.

well, just because you can't think of a reason, doesn't mean God can't. i beleive that God thinks about several factors when deciding what to reveal and that God reveal's what He knows they should know.

Which doesn't mean that in the absance of those reasons I won't think its a really stupid idea, especially if you follow the "follow these teachings or go to vicious hell" school. Rather unfair to stack the deck like that; to me it sounds like someone pointing a gun at your head and saying "Answer me yes or no. Four." Its a crapshoot, with everything at stake, and you don't even understand the game..

There may be a valid reason to drive a car through a wall, but my first thought is always going to be "Ok, how they'd screw up?"