Disclaimer: I'm not attacking the personal faith of individual YECists in this post, I'm simply pointing out the folly of some of their common arguments.
This exemplifies something that I've noticed for a long time now: namely, when YECists frequently accuse TEists of somehow damaging God, all this does is reveal that it is in fact they (YECists) who have a damaged and fragile view of God.
Let me explain with examples.
When YECists say: "TEists make God an immoral killer, because they believe he caused millions of years of animal death and bloodshed" ...
What they mean is: "My God would be an immoral killer if he caused millions of years of animal death and bloodshed" ...
But what TEists actually think is: "God can jolly well cause millions of years of animal death if he wants to, and he would still be indescribably holy."
When YECists say: "TEists make God a weakling, because they say he took millions of years to create the universe" ...
What they mean is: "My God would be a weakling if he took millions of years to create"...
But what TEists actually think is: "God can jolly well take millions of years to create if he wants to, and he would still be indescribably powerful."
When YECists say: "TEists make God a liar, because they say he put myths in the Bible" ...
What they mean is: "My God would be a liar if he put myths in the Bible"...
But what TEists actually think is: "God can jolly well put myths in the Bible if he wants to, and he would still be utterly truthful.
When YECists say: "TEists give God no reason to exist, because they think everything was made by natural processes" ...
What they mean is: "My God would have no reason to exist if everything was made by natural processes" ...
But what TEists actually think is: "God can jolly well make everything using natural processes if he wants, and he would still be LORD OF THE UNIVERSE."
Do you see what I'm saying? These sorts of frequently made accusations are a bad reflection on your view of God, not ours. You are the ones who are judging God by human standards (calling him immoral, weak, liar, etc.). It is your opinion of God that is so weak and fragile that it cannot tolerate animal death, millions of years, natural processes. You have put God in a box, a box which says that God can only be God if animals don't eat each other, and creation happened quickly. You are ones implying that God isn't worth worshipping if evolution is true.
The TEist view of God, OTOH, is far more robust. We believe that God is God regardless of how he chooses to do things. Our faith in him is not shaken by carnivores, or a big bang, millions of years, or myths in the Bible. Our God is holy, moral, truthful, powerful NO MATTER WHAT. No matter what we discover about his works in nature, we will still worship and adore him as our God.
So, to return to this fascinating remark:
You called him an idiot, not us.
A Young Earth Creationist said:GOD is some idiot who wanted billions of years of death and blood
This exemplifies something that I've noticed for a long time now: namely, when YECists frequently accuse TEists of somehow damaging God, all this does is reveal that it is in fact they (YECists) who have a damaged and fragile view of God.
Let me explain with examples.
When YECists say: "TEists make God an immoral killer, because they believe he caused millions of years of animal death and bloodshed" ...
What they mean is: "My God would be an immoral killer if he caused millions of years of animal death and bloodshed" ...
But what TEists actually think is: "God can jolly well cause millions of years of animal death if he wants to, and he would still be indescribably holy."
When YECists say: "TEists make God a weakling, because they say he took millions of years to create the universe" ...
What they mean is: "My God would be a weakling if he took millions of years to create"...
But what TEists actually think is: "God can jolly well take millions of years to create if he wants to, and he would still be indescribably powerful."
When YECists say: "TEists make God a liar, because they say he put myths in the Bible" ...
What they mean is: "My God would be a liar if he put myths in the Bible"...
But what TEists actually think is: "God can jolly well put myths in the Bible if he wants to, and he would still be utterly truthful.
When YECists say: "TEists give God no reason to exist, because they think everything was made by natural processes" ...
What they mean is: "My God would have no reason to exist if everything was made by natural processes" ...
But what TEists actually think is: "God can jolly well make everything using natural processes if he wants, and he would still be LORD OF THE UNIVERSE."
Do you see what I'm saying? These sorts of frequently made accusations are a bad reflection on your view of God, not ours. You are the ones who are judging God by human standards (calling him immoral, weak, liar, etc.). It is your opinion of God that is so weak and fragile that it cannot tolerate animal death, millions of years, natural processes. You have put God in a box, a box which says that God can only be God if animals don't eat each other, and creation happened quickly. You are ones implying that God isn't worth worshipping if evolution is true.
The TEist view of God, OTOH, is far more robust. We believe that God is God regardless of how he chooses to do things. Our faith in him is not shaken by carnivores, or a big bang, millions of years, or myths in the Bible. Our God is holy, moral, truthful, powerful NO MATTER WHAT. No matter what we discover about his works in nature, we will still worship and adore him as our God.
So, to return to this fascinating remark:
A Young Earth Creationist said:GOD is some idiot who wanted billions of years of death and blood
You called him an idiot, not us.