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moral knowledge

How Biblical Divinely Commanded Genocide Undermines Moral Knowledge

October 14, 2021 by Randal

Is it intrinsically evil to slaughter infants or does it depend on the context? Our moral knowledge says one thing, biblical passages like 1 Samuel 15:3 seem to say something else. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, Jesus Loves Canaanites, moral epistemology, moral knowledge, skepticism

Prolife Christians Who Support Child Killing

October 12, 2021 by Randal

Defending the morality of the Canaanite genocide has disastrous consequences for a consistent Christian ethic as I explain in this video. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: abortion, biblical violence, genocide, infanticide, Jesus Loves Canaanites, moral epistemology, moral knowledge

The Bible depicts God commanding moral atrocities. Should we believe it?

June 22, 2018 by Randal

The Bible includes some descriptions of divine action which are fundamentally at odds with the moral perceptions of properly functioning human beings. In some cases, God is presented as performing actions that appear to be wicked. In other cases, he is presented as commanding humans to perform actions that appear to be wicked. Of the latter, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical ethics, biblical violence, ethics, hermenutics, moral knowledge, moral perception

Special Pleading or Therapy? The J. Warner Wallace Dilemma

May 31, 2017 by Randal

Popular Christian apologists have a problem. On the one hand, they are strident defenders of objective moral knowledge, often to the end of defending a moral argument for God’s existence. On the other hand, they defend readings of the violence portrayed in the Bible that appear inconsistent with that aforementioned commitment to objective moral knowledge. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Amalekites, Bible, ethics, genocide, moral knowledge, Warner Wallace

If it’s okay for God to do something, then is it okay for him to command it?

March 14, 2013 by Randal

Vincent asked me an interesting and provocative question. It is also helpful because it goes to the root of many important issues He wrote: Would you agree or disagree with the proposition that if it’s morally OK for God to do something, then it’s OK for Him to command someone else to do it? If […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, God, Jesus, moral atrocity, moral knowledge, moral law, morality

The moral blindness of the psychopath

February 1, 2012 by Randal

Robert Hare is one of the world’s leading experts on psychopathy. In his book Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us (New York: Pocket Books, 1993), he provides an in-depth profile of the psychopathic personality based on thirty years of clinical study. In the next couple posts I’m going to springboard off of his […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, moral knowledge, psychopathy, Robert Hare

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