Why does God Kill Babies

[Mister Agenda]

Ladies and gentlemen, here we have exhibit A for how christianity turns you into a callous, infantile monster.

I'd like to reply to this and all the other scathing remarks about the above post. All I hear on this forum is how irrational christians are. Now this was a very rational statement and I get it for being callous. Christians believe in eternal life. If I die as an infant and I meet someone in heaven who died at 100 years old, I'm not going to be upset because he got to live longer than me. We both have eternity. In fact, I might be grateful that I died fast instead of suffering a long and painful death.

Since you're being so rational, do you acknowledge that the logical conclusion of this system being in place is that the younger you die, the better?

If my kids died now, I would be devastated because I love them I'd miss them. In fact, I'll be devastated whenever they die. But I'd be happy to know that they're in heaven and living a joyous existence. To a christian life on earth is important, but it's only a minute part of our total existence.

Then wouldn't it be better for your children to die now, despite the pain to their loved ones? Does living longer not increase the chance that something will change in their life resulting in them not going to heaven? Why take that chance for a minute part of their total existence?

As far as why God kills babies, all I said was my true thoughts. It's for the same reason he kills adults. Before mankind's sin, there was no death and afterwards there was death.

So Adam and Eve didn't need to eat of the fruit of the tree of eternal life, they were going to live forever anyway as long as they didn't eat the other forbidden fruit? But if they'd have eaten the forbidden fruit of eternal life, they would have lived forever despite disobeying God?

Like I said, we don't know the mind of God. We're not allowed to murder and in fact we're commanded to love and care for our neighbors and even our enemies. We are to leave justice and vengeance to God and go on loving just as Jesus demonstrated.

Do you not see the contradiction in claiming we can't know the mind of God, then telling us how God wants us to act?

I don't think you're callous, I just think you're not thinking things through.