Maybe none of us know what we are talking about.
This is going to be a long, long post.
At the same time, bad behavior should be discouraged, right? And stealing your neighbors land should be made, 'more difficult'..? So as to not make a habit out of it.
I agree with this. Bad behavior that is inconsistent with Biblical morality and the Western rule of law should be punished. At least, within American borders. But I generally tend to think that Ukraine subscribes to Western rule of law, at least as much as it tries to defend its own sovereignty from an invader.
The invasion of Ukraine, however, is an affront to Western rule of law, not Biblical principles. Western rule of law is is a flawed human system of morality and there are problems with it. For example, Western rule of law would not allow Iraq to divide itself into three nations based on its three ethnic/religious groups: all of those groups should submit to the Iraqi government. That is a problem with rule of law: it does not give sovereignty to minorities or self-determination to those subjugated by a much larger group. However, Ukraine is a sovereign nation despite being a minority in comparison to Russia, so under Western rule of law, we are defending Ukraine.
Really? So you're saying the Hand of God, so to speak, is responsible for the Holocaust? Wow!
...And it's because God didn't love the Jews.
This is what I'm gathering from your post's content. Correct me if I'm wrong.
God's sovereign will is responsible for the Holocaust, the same way as any other calamity. However, I don't think "because God didn't love the Jews" is a 100% correct and complete reason. There are multiple purposes behind any event that God allows to occur. The ministry of Corrie Ten Boom came out of the Holocaust too; that's another reason. A book called
Man's Search For Meaning would never have been written without the Holocaust. And on and on.
God does, in some respect, love the Jewish people, at least enough to rescue them from the Babylonian exile (see Isaiah 39-48) through Cyrus. But Romans 9 describes the current state of affairs, where there are "vessels of wrath prepared for destruction" in the Jewish people as well as every other nation on earth. God's focus of loving attention in this age is not on the Jewish people, but on his bride, the church.
The problem is that you don't.
You can't tell a good deed from an evil one? What nonsense is this?
I am not personally responsible for Putin's invasion of Ukraine and the United States is not responsible for Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Individually and as a nation, I am not responsible for that evil man's behavior.
You are confusing "deciding what right and wrong is" and "determining which deeds are right or wrong based on a system of morality". I can go back to the Bible, or the Western Rule of Law, or my own conscience, or whatever moral authority you manage to dig up, and determine which deeds are good and evil, based on whatever system that is. I am fully capable of doing that, and that is not an abuse if both of us agree to that system of morality. It would not be an abuse to hold a fellow Christian to following the Scriptures, but it would be an abuse for me to expect you to follow the Scriptures and punish you for not doing so, because you are an atheist and do not agree. It would not be an abuse to expect a fellow American to follow Rule of Law, but it may be an abuse to expect a Saudi Arabian, an Omanian, or a Sudanese to do so, because they do not believe in rule of law.
Likewise, if I independently decide that wearing green on Tuesday is morally wrong and go around punishing everyone who wears green on Tuesday, I am an abusive monster. If I make up my own moral rules and expect everyone else around to follow them in order to escape punishment, I am an abuser.
careful, to even suggest one can tell the difference between good and evil is "abusive".
It's not. People escape from abusers by rejecting said abusers' independently derived morality systems and deferring to Biblical morality to prove said abusers wrong. They throw out one corrupt morality system and exchange it for a better one.
Simply determining what right and wrong is, based on an established morality system, is not an abuse.
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