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Subject: Re:  Nichols on Maroney (A Ba'laam Blessing?)
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 15:47:17 EST
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> Yosi Hoshen:
> The only  way I could consider Ken's posting as a rebuttal to
> Tim's article is by assuming a double standard - one standard for
> god and another standard for the rest of the universe.  Does it 
> imply that what we recognize as a low moral standard (e.g. killing
> innocent people) is reversed when it is applied to god? When God 
> bears the responsibility for the death of the innocent, is he 
> to be judged as having high moral standards?

Not a double standard...God IS the standard, and man doesn't even come
close. Someone may be innocent when only humans and human standards are
considered, but when God and His standards are brought into the picture,
everything changes. Man's accountability to man has its basis in man's
accountability to God.

This was one of Tim's major fallacies - trying to put God on a human level.
However, Isaiah 55:6-9 clearly puts God on a distinct level above us.
-- 
		The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford
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You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.