fr0d0 Wrote:Innocent babies: I've been through this before this week. God, having the ability to judge future action, can judge you on what you will do.
And a Christian finally reveals that free will is a lie. Sin is the result of exercising will that goes against God. No infant has the capacity to do that. If free will is the vehicle by which we are capable of sin, then no sin is certain to happen in the future. If God can judge someone ahead of time, then there is no free will, because those babies were predestined to be what they were.
If every Amalekite was slaughtered under that pretext, that every single one of them would, in their lifetimes, be guilty of a sin that demanded death (even though they hadn't committed it yet), everybody in the world should have suffered the same fate. It is not justice if it is not consistent. It's just the weakest possible justification for the murderous whims of a dictator.
