(July 5, 2015 at 1:10 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(July 5, 2015 at 12:48 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: It was better for one man to die so that the others learned to obey God TO THE LETTER than for people to believe that they were free to do whatever they wanted with God's commands.
You ever punish one child knowing that the others would learn from the example?
Does a company ever fire one employee for taking excessively long lunch breaks in order to get the others to shape up?
It happens all the time, and God did what anyone of us would do to teach the people not to mess.
Oh yeah people kill children all the time to teach them not to mess with things.
Jenny-
As harsh as it seems, the Israelites did learn from the incident that God is not to be trifled with.