(March 28, 2013 at 5:17 am)Sagasa Wrote:(March 27, 2013 at 11:05 pm)Godschild Wrote: God has told us what sin is and the punishment it deserves, if you want to argue this you need to get outside and shout to heaven your complaint, no matter what I say or you say to me, we can not change what God deems just.
I don't understand how turning a woman into a pillar of salt just for looking back when their home was being destroyed could ever be considered "Just".
It might be just from God's point of view, but it doesn't change my perception of how abhorrent it is and how it further reinforces my conviction of wanting to have nothing to do with such a callous being, much less worship Him.
They were told not to turn and look at the destruction of the cities, she disobeyed God's command, thus sin and that particular sin carried a particular punishment. God spared all their lives by letting them leave the city and asked one thing from them, not to look back, when she did, she showed her loyalty to the sin filled city even after God had spared her life, if her heart had been with God she would have lived on. There was nothing unjust in God's action, He showed mercy on her and she rejected it, for a look at what God had already condemned.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.