RE: How do you reconcile your god, the mass murderer?
December 2, 2017 at 6:41 pm
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(December 2, 2017 at 3:15 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:The Canannites did nothing wrong?(December 1, 2017 at 7:33 am)Starhunter Wrote: some people have a problem with a God who puts an end to hardened crims, their supporting codependent families, and their damaged offspring.
Yeah I have problem with killing babies, like anyone else that isn't a psychopath or brainwashed Christian. And their parents since people like Canaanites did nothing wrong except being at the wrong place.
These nations had hundreds of years to work it out, they had been warned on many occasions, and they had gone about as low as humanity could go. I posted something about that earlier in this thread.
We are not God, so we don't know anything about real self sacrifice, and what personal suffering it causes God to sustain a dysfucntional and miserable race.
Not only that, we cannot forsee the full results of allowing a degenerate race to continue. God has seen it before, and I am surprised what he tolerates before he puts an end to it.
In fact, the people were desperate for God to do something about their civilisation, long before he intervened. But so long as there was hope for a single person, God would hold back due vengence. In the case of Jericho, the town prostitute and her relatives were saved by a miracle, because she was not personally interested in murdering the wandering Israelites like the rest of the city.
We are quick to judge God, but if God supports evil men, so that they can increase their moral and physical deformities, causing endless suffering, we blame God for the suffering in the world.
But if God cleans the earth of its destructive inhabitants, so that future generations can have some semblance of a normal life, we call him a tyrant.
On top of all that, we come across as being more righteous than God. When our lives have a history of lying, manipulating, selfishness, greed, war and murder, stealing, unfaithfulness, fornication, malice, deceit, blasphemy, insensitivity, misjudging, misrepresenting, uncleanliness, neglect, willing ignorance, the list goes on.
It is the common human condition.
I am all for ideals, but given the history of humanity, isn't it time we admitted defeat?
But the world is basically OK isn't it? And what would be the cause of that?
Or would you like to give humanity the credit for that?
Sorry, but that would be a blind mistake.