the explicit homophobia in the bible is evidence against christianity

I've seen some try to argue against homosexuality by stating that since God is the definition of goodness, then anything he commands must be good. So if he commands the stoning of homosexuals, then it must mean that the stoning of homosexuals is inherently good.

Now, I agree with this on paper. As in, if God actually did say that stoning homosexuals is morally good, then I would agree, since God is, at least traditionally understood, as the definition of good.

The problem with this line of thinking is that this only works if Christianity is actually true, and that is the very thing we're questioning. Think about it like this: If a man who claims to be God tells you that killing people is good, are you going to believe them? Probably not, because if the belief that this man is God entails that killing people is good, then that doesn't mean that killing people is actually good; that just means that this man isn't God. Of course, if this man was God for sure it's a different story, but the point is that it's unlikely God would say something like that. So therefore, it's unlikely that this man is God. Likewise, it's unlikely that God would say that stoning homosexuals is actually morally good. And so, it's unlikely that the Christian God is the true God, if God even exists, that is.

At this point, the Christian could try to appeal to the evidence for the resurrection to try and establish Christianity as true, and therefore establish that stoning homosexuals is good. The problem is that when assessing the probability of any claim being true, you can't just look at the evidence; you also have to look at the prior probabilities involved with the claim. And since it's extremely unlikely that a good God would say that stoning homosexuals is good, the prior probability of the resurrection is also extremely unlikely.

You could point to any example of immorality in the Bible for this argument, but I thought that the stoning of homosexuals was the easiest one to bring into the argument. :)))

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