I will be posting certain thoughts and discoveries I make in this thread. Perhaps one a day. I think that it would be nice to have a place to record my religious thoughts, and to also spread the Word of God to anyone that happens to come across this.
This topic has to do with what I think to be the most difficult wall many face when considering joining Christianity. The Bible, especially the Old Testament, makes God look like some ogre in the sky that murders perhaps thousands of people.
There are many more examples I could get into, but all of these should be enough. So the question is: If God is so holy and righteous, why does He kill people? If he tells us to not murder, then He is a hypocrite.
This took awhile for me to understand, but soon enough, I did (after some research). Here are some reasons God can kill people and still not violate his existence:
1. When a king makes the laws, he can change and make exceptions whenever he pleases.
2. The murder God performs is very different than the form He restricts us from committing. For us, we shall not murder anyone out of the darkness and cruelty of our hearts. Well, God isn't killing them because of "inner darkness", but rather, for justice. The Bible actually has numerous verses telling the government of God's people to kill certain people and criminals. This is another point to justice. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Leviticus-24-17/
3. In the examples I showed you, God killed evil people. The Bible states that the entire city of Sodom was completely infested with murderers, sodomites, and other wicked people. The Bible states that everyone killed in the flood was evil as well. Lastly, the Bible states that the army of Egypt followed a knowingly cruel and oppressive king.
Many questions and arguments can be made from this excerpt, but the main point should be the reason that God wipes out these people.
He wipes them out so that they don't infect any of his people. He wipes them out because they completely deserve it. He has given each and every one a chance, and they knew God, but continued to live their own way.
The most important thing is to remember that, though it is beyond our understanding, God cares for all of us deeply (with a few exceptions I suppose). https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/John-3-16/
Whether you are a Christian or not, God cares about you all deeply. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.
God bless.
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Last edited by victreebelvictr on Jan 5th, 2021 at 02:49 PM
Um. Didn't you claim a sodomite is a homosexual, and now you are saying that sodomites are evil and it's ok God killed them for it? Just making sure I'm clear on your beliefs here.
Yes. The verse I provided would agree with this idea.
A lot of people think this way, though, Romans 1 tells that all fully committed homosexuals are reprobates. They have had the choice to choose God, but were rejected. I suppose homosexuality is a very big deal to God.
His reluctance to answer the question directly convicts him. He knows that the command is wrong, but he also holds that the book that commands it is inerrant, so he is struggling to split the difference: to find a way to soft-peddle his agreement without contradicting his book. It is transparent and pathetic.
God's laws and standards are very different than our own. But why? Well, think about it. The Lord is the pinnacle of holiness, therefore, His laws are more righteous than our own. Simply the fact that God is omniscient alone should be enough to acknowledge His superiority in regards to laws.
God's holiness trumps our own to such a degree that His laws might no make sense to us. Here are a few verse in regards to our inferior holiness:
Therefore, debating God's evilness is very difficult considering the fact the He knows beyond what we do.
Many people leave the Christian faith due to God's "treacherous" behavior or actions. In reality, the Bible states that, once you are a Christian, there is literally nothing that can separate you from the Lord. Therefore, those that leave the Christian faith because they disagree with God's words were never actually a Christian in the first place. They debate that somehow their own idea of holiness outclasses God's, which is purely illogical.
Though, I see how this would be confusing to the reader, it is not what it seems to be at first glance. In every other recent translation of the Bible, the word "evil" is replaced with "calamity" which refers to hardship. Hardship is not evil, and, if anything, actually is a punishment used by God. This "evil" is also considered punishment in Isaiah 47:10-11.
Why did God create a world that He knew would be evil? Well, for instance, we have already established that God does not create evil, but punishment. The Bible states that God gaved us, unlike everything else of this earth, freedom to make choices.
So humans ultimately made the evil of this world. Though God knew of all the people going to Hell, it is actually fine. Through God's standards, which I have proved is far greater and stranger to our own, has it that all evil people will go to Hell.
I give some serious credit to Pastor John Piper for today's look on things. He did a very good job with his message, and I fully support listening to it.
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