Tip #33 Good or Exempt?

North Korea gets regular employment as an analogy for certain forms of Christian theology. There's a reason and it applies to this question. This question applies to one of the ways people try to avoid Evil Jesus.

According to the bible, Jesus once told his followers to take a donkey from someone without asking permission or purchasing. According to Ray Comfort, the reason that this wasn't theft was that Jesus, being God incarnate, already owns everything.

In the Old Testament, there are more than a few divinely commanded genocides, each with express commandment to kill infants. According to William Lane Craig, one of the reasons this doesn't make God bad is that God doesn't issue commands to himself, and therefore has no moral obligations.
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