Re:Who says it's evil for god to kill thousands (Score 1)

I don't really buy your claim. First of all, where in the Bible (or anywhere) is it claimed that the rules God wants mankind to play by are the rules He Himself must follow? In fact, if we agree that right and wrong are defined by God's will (adultery = bad, worshipping on the Sabbath = good) then how can you argue that His will is ever 'wrong?'

Well that's exactly the point, isn't it? I certainly do not agree that right and wrong are "defined by God's will". On that view, if God had declared it so, then, say, torturing young children for one's personal pleasure would have been right. Sorry, if God *had* so declared, torturing children wouldn't have been good; rather God would have been evil. Some things even God has no power over -- God can't make 4 prime, he can't solve the Halting Problem, and he can't make torture good or right. To *define* good and right as "what God desires" makes the claim that God himself is good vacuous; everything he does or wants turns out good by definition.

Secondly, if you believe that God is all powerful and created all existence, then you must believe that He created a world that is susceptible to sickness and death...

Obviously, since there is sickness and death in the world.

(a Christian might argue that it was human choice aka original sin that caused us to be cast out of Eden, but even the world outside paradise was made by God). So, if God, who is all powerful, creates a world where all living things will age, sicken, and eventually die, then he must be pretty much okay with the idea of those things happening to us.

Why should he be okay with it? Not that I have the slightest idea, but it seems quite consistent to think that God knew what would come about in the world but figured all the havoc that humans would wreak upon one another would be worth it in the long run somehow.

The original point still stands, though. You've got a moral screw loose if you think God's destroying a human being is no different than you deleting some crappy perl code.