(March 4, 2015 at 9:54 am)Huggy74 Wrote: The Bible doesn't say what he did, just that he was "wicked". You'd have to do something pretty egregious to be referred to as wicked.
Uh-huh. Notice that he wasn't punished for doing something wicked, but for being wicked. So Er's offense can only be assumed as something pretty bad and the scripture explicitly says he was killed by god because god saw him as wicked. Some loving father.
(March 4, 2015 at 9:54 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Also I don't think anyone is against a proven murder getting the death penalty, it's just that a lot of errors are made in our human-run justice system, God's justice is perfect.
I'll have to disagree. The moral code presented in the bible is not only primitive, it's just as human as the justice systems we currently have, but far more unjust and immoral.
If you want to claim that the god of the bible is perfectly just, however, I suggest you take a good look at him. Condoning genocide, rape and slavery while condemning homosexuality is perfectly just? Drowning the Earth, destroying cities and most importantly, making the entirety of mankind suffer for the sins of two people? I think you need to check the definition of the word 'just'.
