SeventyOne
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Maybe. Just because something is labeled as a degree doesn't mean it's worth much. Look at all the degrees handed out in areas like evolutionary biology, and similar fields. They think they have a degree in a science, but it's really a mythology. Not worth the paper they are printed on.
Your argument is just another version of the argument, "If God is good, why do all these other bad things happen to people?"
There's a double standard when it comes to the actions between man and God. Please allow me to demonstrate. Let's take my sharing of 2 Samuel 24:11-15. Here it is again...
And when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, “Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the Lord, Three things I offer you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’” So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.” Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”
So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.
So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.
I'm going to start with an assumption, God is just. Feel free to debate that if you wish, of course. Now let's just look at this passage.
Scenario 1: God tell David not to do something, but David does it anyway. God punished the act by killing 70,000 men who were not involved in the act itself. Do we call God just? Yes. Of course He is, because we know life is His to prolong or to take away as He sees fit.
Scenario 2: King Bob tells David to do something, but David does it anyway. Bob punishes the act by killing 70,000 men who were not involved in the act itself. Do we call Bob just? No, we do not. We call Him a genocidal maniac and hope there's an especially hot spot in hell awaiting his arrival.
Scenario 2: King Bob tells David to do something, but David does it anyway. Bob punishes the act by killing 70,000 men who were not involved in the act itself. Do we call Bob just? No, we do not. We call Him a genocidal maniac and hope there's an especially hot spot in hell awaiting his arrival.
This is why your question, and your presumption to equate acts of God to the acts of man, is a faulty premise. Such as, "It wouldn't be right for me to make people sick, therefore it isn't right for God to do the same." That's one heck of an assumption, dragging the Creator down to the level of creation in order to pass judgment on His actions, as if you had that kind of authority.
Then you follow up with an equally faulty question of "Well then why pray to be healed? If it is Gods will for you to be sick, why would you pray for something against His will?" I never made the claim it's against His will to heal. My claim is that He can both make sick and make well, both are within His will. But I do understand why you asked, as it's just another assumption that has to be made when this faulty premise is carried out to a conclusion.
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