(April 17, 2010 at 5:16 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: This deity murdered none, but killed many. He doesn't kill for fun, but in justice. Hitler is judged by humans in the light of war. War crimes are just that.. unjust actions in war.
Gods law is known and fixed. God can't violate this law, or we'd have to redefine 'just'. God's law is also 'within us' (biblical reference), so we can know if that pans out. To say that the God of the bible is unjust, is to say our own sense of justice is wrong. I trust that my sense of justice is correct, and I trust that the God of the bible is just. Anything else would require a complete rewrite of justice as we know it, and ultimately makes no sense.
I don't think there are any ways of justifying some of the deaths God has caused in the Bible.
God is a tool wielded by the few for personal gain, to control the masses. To make them do things they wouldn't normally do.
"God is dead" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Faith is what you have in things that DON'T exist. - Homer J. Simpson
"Faith is what you have in things that DON'T exist. - Homer J. Simpson