(May 23, 2020 at 3:56 am)Johanabrahams Wrote: God is not evil and not into punishment.
So if God doesn't do anything to stop evil why even worship that God? Especially since God created evil, at least according to the Bible:
The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Proverbs 16:4
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. -- Isaiah 45:7
(May 23, 2020 at 3:56 am)Johanabrahams Wrote: So God didn't punish Hitler. But evil got him in the end.
Oh so evil got Hitler in the end, but not before he murdered 5 million people and that was just Jews since there were many more besides them.
(May 23, 2020 at 3:56 am)Johanabrahams Wrote: Just think about the consequences his family and the nation is still suffering as a result.
I am and that's why I say God should have killed Hitler before many millions would suffer as a consequence, because remember The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
(May 23, 2020 at 3:56 am)Johanabrahams Wrote: Evil that humans allow in their lives also have the consequences on "babies".
Don't you think that God who sees babies as evil is evil?
(May 23, 2020 at 3:56 am)Johanabrahams Wrote: Those guys in the OT would never have understood "Love your enemies". God takes it step by step. Building us up
Oh yes, those poor Israelites didn't know that killing (babies) and raping was wrong until God told them, although other nations with other Gods knew it. Especially since God doesn't love his enemies, for even Jesus built Hell for his enemies and vowed destruction for whole nations when he was "alive" because he saw them as his enemies, like:
20 Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. 24 But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.” Matthew 11:20-24
No wonder later Christians were constantly looking for enemies to kill.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"