(March 4, 2012 at 10:12 pm)Forsaken Wrote:(March 4, 2012 at 10:09 pm)chipan Wrote: God kills many in order to better the future events. All those God killed were undoubtably wicked. Example are those who practiced human sacrifice which God repeatedly says is wicked.Didn't he see those things happening when he started creation? Why let it happen then?
(March 4, 2012 at 10:09 pm)chipan Wrote: It can be argued that in his actions, God saved more lives than if he did nothing. If this is the case, people would consider it more cruel for him to allow this constant killing and war than to stop it by killing the right people. Would you fault God for killing Hitler if you knew that he would do what he did?Well God didn't intervene in Hitler's case.
God lets people do wicked things because he has given them free will. If he simply decided not to allow them choice in these matters, that would make him dishonest. And in hitlers case, he did not intervene for reasons I dont know but my best guess is that the killings of the old testament were important for his word to survive in the grand scheme of things. He will not kill every evil dictator because that again is interfering with free will.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem