According to the Bible, your God indiscriminately kills children and babies. One aspect of Christianity that I find hard to understand or accept is why anyone would worship something that they know does such things. Why do Christians worship, revere, admire, respect or have any kind of “personal relationship” (whatever that means) with something that they know indiscriminately kills children and babies?
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. – David Hume 1711-1776
God does nothing "indiscriminately." I don't know where you would get such an idea. Certainly not from the Bible. There is "purpose" to everything God does, whether out of love or in judgment. Sometimes we do not understand everything God does, but that is because we have a very limited perspective on what is really going on. The Bible says "now we see through a glass darkly, but then, face to face; now I see in part, but then shall I know even as I am known." (1 Cor. 13:12) We don't see the whole picture, but God is not limited in His perspective.
I don't know why children die, but I certainly don't blame God for it. Many Christians, myself included, believe that when children under the age of accountability die, they are immediately ushered into Heaven. When you compare life in heaven to life here on earth, I'm certain that those who experience an untimely demise (to our understanding) have no regrets whatsoever. Perhaps God is saving them from a fate worse than death.
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God does nothing "indiscriminately." I don't know where you would get such an idea. Certainly not from the Bible. There is "purpose" to everything God does, whether out of love or in judgment.
Well, according to the Bible, your God does kill babies indiscriminately. By ‘indiscriminate’ I mean not marked by careful distinction; deficient in discrimination and discernment. In other words, it doesn’t care which babies it kills. And yes, it purposely kills babies. So your God purposely kills babies indiscriminately. The question is why would you and other Christians worship, revere, admire, respect or have any kind of personal relationship with something that you know does such things?
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. – David Hume 1711-1776
You fail to realize that God is God. He can do whatever He wants with His creation, He owns it. What right do you have to complain to God?
Why do we worship God? Because He had the right to kill us at birth, yet He saved us instead.
Why do we worship God? Because He had the right to kill us at birth, yet He saved us instead.
I don’t understand. How does being saved from stillbirth lead to your worshipping something that indiscriminately kills babies? The two seem unconnected. In fact, one would think that being saved from being killed at birth yourself would lead to your despising something that killed babies indiscriminately.
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. – David Hume 1711-1776
As Christians, we are instructed to die to self and focus on our treasures in heaven, the very place these children and babies peacefully reside.
The term “die to self” makes no sense. Could you rephrase that, please? When you say you are instructed to “focus on your treasures in heaven”, do you mean you think more about what you believe you will receive in the future than more immediate and Earthly things such as your friends and family?
However, your response doesn’t explain why you would worship something that indiscriminately kills babies. Could you explain that, please?
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. – David Hume 1711-1776
According to the Bible, your God indiscriminately kills children and babies. One aspect of Christianity that I find hard to understand or accept is why anyone would worship something that they know does such things. Why do Christians worship, revere, admire, respect or have any kind of “personal relationship” (whatever that means) with something that they know indiscriminately kills children and babies?
It would be like if I were to ask How can you be apart of a society that indiscriminately kills women, children and babies? You worship and tithe through obeying it's laws and paying taxes and possibly voting when the opportunity arises, and yet you don't to seem to have an issue. Why with God? Perhaps it has to do with the stage of development the baby is in, in it's mothers womb, or perhaps it's a matter of the women and children's color of skin and relative distance from a CNN camera crew that places you in a position of self righteous indifference.. Either way these deaths are apart of this and most "western" countries legacy. A legacy you don't seem to have issue being a part of.
As far as directly answering you question, God has not indiscriminately killed anyone after the Death, burial and resurrection of His Son.(Marking the actual beginning of Christianity) If you think you know otherwise please submit chapter and verse.
Besides "death" is not the end it is only a period of transition, From this life to the next. The only difference being is, in this life we can deny the existence of God. In the next we can not. The only one's who hold so very tightly to this life are the one's who are not prepared for the next one. This is why death for them is so final, so wrong, and this is also why "dying well" (dying peacefully After a long well spent life.) is so important. Because this is all there is, before there is Hell to pay. (Even if they can't admit it to themselves.) For the believer Death is a birth into eternity, and the sooner the better. For the "thinker" Death is death.. Ironically this isn't far from the truth.
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According to the Bible, your God indiscriminately kills children and babies. One aspect of Christianity that I find hard to understand or accept is why anyone would worship something that they know does such things. Why do Christians worship, revere, admire, respect or have any kind of “personal relationship” (whatever that means) with something that they know indiscriminately kills children and babies?
Everybody dies and everybody is born and yes, God is ultimately behind both. Those who die are raised again -- 'death not ends it'. Death is as an illusion which tests us, as does all the evil in the world.
One has to see beyond all the evil in the world, then their perception is cleansed.
Well, according to the Bible, your God does kill babies indiscriminately. By ‘indiscriminate’ I mean not marked by careful distinction; deficient in discrimination and discernment. In other words, it doesn’t care which babies it kills. And yes, it purposely kills babies. So your God purposely kills babies indiscriminately. The question is why would you and other Christians worship, revere, admire, respect or have any kind of personal relationship with something that you know does such things?
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Please point me to the passage in the Bible that says that God order the murder of random children for no particular reason. Please note that judging a wicked nation is actually a reason, regardless of whether you agree with it or not.
It has also been pointed out several times that innocent children will go to heaven, and so the temporary suffering they endured on earth is repaid in eternal joy.
Your response to these answers is typical of a skeptic. Rather than providing a counter-argument you simply state that the question wasn't answered to you satisfaction and then restate the question. Basically, you shake your head and go, "Nuh-uh!" Being a skeptic is easy. You just have to deny everything anyone tells you. I suspect that no answer will ever be good enough for you. You don't believe because you don't want to believe, and questions like this seem to you to be good ammunition to attack Christians.
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