RE: As a christian, how did you handle the problems with the Tower of Babel?
December 2, 2012 at 10:27 pm
(November 28, 2012 at 10:13 am)Drich Wrote:(November 27, 2012 at 10:23 pm)Darkstar Wrote: Option one: help your people improve farming and herding habits
Option two: have you people kill everybody else and take their stuff
Both are equally effective to an omnipotent god, so...the genocide was unnecessary. And about the lineage of christ: why did it matter his lineage, couldn't god easily put Jesus into anyone? (Or did he make some promise to put him in a specific family?)
You are missing the biggest reason geneocide was the best option at that time. It keeps the other tribes/people from raping and murdering your people Because they have option one. It literally put the fear of God into everyone in that region. It also stops subsequent generations from comming back and destroying what God has built. Look at the nation of Islam. It is the biggest opposition to Christianity, and it was spured off of one of the sons of Abraham just like Judaism. God allowed it to flourish even though it offers so much opposition against God. One can only imagine that these other people if left unchecked would have destroyed some part of God's Plan. Their was a reason, even if we are not privy to it.
It's a good thing your all-powerful God can simply snap his fingers and make everyone friends! He has that ability!
Which is more proof that God intentionally fans the flames when peace is an option, and the only reasons why that could be is that he is either completely insane or he gets a divine hard-on from the spilling of blood. Or both, of course.
