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Why is this a problem?

It's not a puzzle. If you can't even understand basic reasoning, then you have no hope of establishing your beliefs as correct, let alone convincing anyone of them. I strongly recommend you go take a logic and reasoning 101 course, because you clearly aren't capable of using either on TOL.

Actually, it completely falsifies his position. He's claiming that free will exists AND God knows everything infallibly. That logical sequence (which Clete and myself have used previously against settled view-ers) shows how free will and EDF are completely incompatible.

Again, that's not what Abraham was challenging God on. And Abraham came near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it? Far be it...

You think that Abraham thought that God was going to murder? Because that's not what he said. Stop thinking like a modern person. How would the rest of the ancient world have perceived God's actions? How God's actions have affected His reputation?

As though that is enough to make things right... Disgusting.

I'm hoping the following progression helps clarify the distinction I've been trying to make, Clete. Rather than simply asserting that a moral reason doesn't necessarily create a moral obligation, I want to walk through a few examples, beginning with a relatively straightforward jurisdictional...

Then you are not a Christian. Jesus also made it clear, and the scriptures support it, that He was, and is, and always will be, God. No, it didn't. Belief in Christ's deity did not begin more than a century after His death. Paul was already writing about Christ's divine status in the first...

Precisely! Justice isn't concerned solely with punishing the guilty. It's also concerned with protecting the innocent from unjust punishment. Ezekiel 13:19 condemns both killing those who should not die and keeping alive those who should not live. Proverbs 17:15 likewise condemns both...

:) Then let's drop should versus must as terminology, because I don't want the argument to turn on how we're using those two words. The distinction I'm making is between a genuine moral reason for doing something and an all-things-considered moral obligation to do it. And criminal justice...

Au contraire... You've definitely revealed several weak points in my position that I previously did not have answers to, but which have now been shored up. So thanks for that! :) And if you can establish the must I outline below, then my position collapses outright, because Bob's arrangement...

But that's precisely the point at issue. I'm not asking, “If justice requires it, why should we do what justice requires?” Obviously, because justice requires it. I'm asking: Does justice require that some domestic human authority possess jurisdiction over the highest human ruler in the...

No. That still assumes the point in dispute. I am not claiming that a jurisdiction which already extends over the king somehow “ceases to apply” when he commits a crime. I am disputing your claim that God's general delegation of punitive authority to civil government necessarily entails...

Why do you keep claiming you've answered a question you plainly haven't answered? The thread is still there for everyone to read. The question you have answered, which I did not ask, is, "Is Jesus the Messiah?". But the question I asked is, "Is Jesus God?". Please answer the question I...

Abraham was not wrong to challenge God. The God of the Bible is not some abstract Being that follows a set of programming rules to the letter.

You didn't answer the question. Is Jesus God? You've listed numerous things we must do. Sounds very much like a works-based system of salvation. What happened to Christ's role? What about what Paul taught in Romans 4? Not what I asked. What did Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection...

Post in thread 'On the omniscience of God' https://theologyonline.com/threads/on-the-omniscience-of-god.55271/post-1931480

Before going further, I'd like to get a better understanding of what you actually believe. 1. Do you believe Jesus Christ is God, who existed before His incarnation? 2. What must a person do to be saved? 3. What do you believe Jesus accomplished through His death and resurrection? 4. Do you...

No, because He has the right to take back the life that he gave man however He sees fit. Murder is the unjust taking of human life, and God will not act unjustly.