If you were God, what kind of God would you be?

absolute morality only works if everyone agrees what it is and to abide by it. Our world shows that they do not.Jesus provided a perfect model for absolute morality - 'Love'If we all treated each other with love, then absolute morality could exist.

but he actually wasnt partial to them. The law allowed for people of any nation to join isreal in the worship of God.The reason why 1 nation was chosen back then was because God was sending his son who had to be born into a nation who worshiped God in the correct way.The purpose of the Messiah was to atone for the sin of Adam so that All of Adams descendents could have an approach to God. Once that Messiah arrived, he stood in place of the Mosaic law so that all nations could worship God thru him.So the reality is that Isreal was chosen for a specific purpose, not because God thought they were better but because true worship needed a model and they were the ones chosen to model it.However, now that we have Jesus, he has become the model for worship and so we follow him instead.

I'm not familiar with that verse, or at least can't think recall it. Can you please provide the verse(s) that corroborate your claim? What does that have to do with the fact that he's partial to Israel? Yes, according to scripture all people can come and worship, but that is not what we are discussing. We're talking about how he is partial to Israel and Israel's interests.

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When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nationsthe Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you- and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you... The LORD will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you. You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you. - Deuteronomy 7

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"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." - Samual Adams

do you really think that God would send his son to a people who participated in vile acts and who practiced satanic forms of worship?he needed a group of people who knew him and knew how to worship him acceptable, on top of that, he wanted to send his son to a clean, holy pure nation because his son was holy, clean and pure. He chose Isreal because they were the descendents of his friend Abraham. So he sent them his laws and prepared them for the arrival of the Messiah.This is why the mosaic law was so strict when it came to justice. The nation needed to be clean from everything that God considered immoral. Edited by Peg, : No reason given.

So, you're claiming that Jesus couldn't play to a hostile crowd? So, the churches that send out missionaries to "heathens" who don't know God and practice "satanic forms of worship" are somehow better than God is at preparing their missionaries?Wouldn't it be a better advocation of God's power and rightness if he sent his son (the one he needs to be executed and tortured) to people who didn't know him, and still have him convince a large enough portion of his power and rightness to create a major religion?How does sending someone to a group of people who are predisposed to believe the types of things he's showing any sign of his power? Is a magician considered better if he can convince a group of kids who are predisposed to believe what they are shown and in magic in general, or if he goes to a group of other magicians who know other ways of doing the same trick, but are still impressed by his tricks?

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." --- Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 10. Haven't you ever read the Bible?

I.e. pork, shellfish, cloth woven out of two kinds of thread, and people who pick up sticks on Saturday.

So what about Abraham's other decendents, Ismael & Esau?

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008

Don't forget mixing meat and cheese. That's a doosey.My delicious roast beef and swiss sandwiches are an abomination before the LORD...and it tickles me.

For some people love is caring for someone, and doing what you think is the best for them. Others think it is respecting their wishes even if you disagree with them. Still others think it is whipping them and stomping on their reproductive organs while wearing a gas mask."Love" is not a basis for absolute morality. What you are proposing is an arbitrary theocracy, nothing more.

and whats wrong with theocracy?At least its consistent and everyone knows what it is. People come and go along with their standardsGods standards are always stable.

He did....they are called Gentiles and the christian church today is mostly made up of gentiles.And whats more, Jesus didnt even need to be here to bring them into his church.

The countless sects and interpretations of morality and God's law and intentions disagree with everyone knowing what it is. Also, the interpretations have changed so it isn't consistent. There is no way of figuring out what God's standards might be given that nobody can even prove his existence. I am starting to wonder if you even thought about what you typed.That being said, theocracy is the worst possible method of justifying a moral framework simply because it is based on a lie. Ideally morality would be based on what is good for the whole, or what the society in general agrees to be appropriate. A poor basis would be "Because it makes me happy". The worst basis is "I am the mouthpiece of God, my dreams are law". Theocracy anyone?

Ever check out Spain at the time of the inquisition, Germany at the time of Martin Luther or Afghanistan under the Taliban?Martin Luther was a fugitive, not only under the church, but under civil law as well. In a Theocracy, only those who adhere to the state Religious sect are true citizens, everyone else is either considered a less that total citizen or is persecuted.

well to be realistic, theocracy is an oxymoronits impossible to for man to institute what is only institutable by God.Theocracy means 'God Rule'how can we say God is ruling if man is the one administering it? Its impossible.But it wont be impossible if God actually institutes & administers it...then no man will dominate over any other man... all mankind will be answerable to God alone and God will be the one to administer the justice. So those nations who say they are theocratic are not really theorcratic. they are just using religion to administer their own rule.God is not really ruling them. Edited by Peg, : No reason given.