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Does it hurt Gods feelings when He is mocked and cause Him to lash out in anger? Sounds like something an emotionally immature person would do rather than God. Especially if you are talking about the God who tells us to turn the other cheek and who tells us to love our enemies so we can be like Him. Getting yourself in a murders rage because children called you "baldy" is absurd for a human let alone a God.
The bible says God will not be mocked, and God did kill people for mocking him so your feelings point is irrelevant.
The bible says God will not be mocked, and God did kill people for mocking him so your feelings point is irrelevant.
At last a Christian with a Christian attitude. At least you are not trying to defend this as others have tried to do. Well, not just defend but condone.
Why do you feel that you need a faith? could you be a good person without it?
That is definitely one way of looking at it but what if the murder of children is directed by God?
"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told." (Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)
How can this be reconciled with a loving God?
There is a big difference between judging someone and finding them guilty and executing him than murdering someone outright. You have a big problem with explaining your idea of a loving God and dismissing Noah's ark. I see no way you can view God as not murdering almost everyone alive at that time unless you say God judged those people and sentenced them to death.If God killed people for blasphemy, there would be no atheists today. So clearly this is false.
God's way is LOVE, not murder. That would be the devil, not God.
There is a big difference between judging someone and finding them guilty and executing him. You have a big problem with explaining your idea of a loving God and dismissing Noah's ark. I see no way you can view God as not murdering almost everyone alive at that time unless you say God judged those people and sentenced them to death.
The Bible disagrees with you on this
God can do as he wishes with his creation. I will outright say God has killed children a few times. He has (as far as I can see) commanded the destruction of an entire people (race?) which include tossing live babies into the rocks
The greatest destruction of children was Noah's ark
So, you believe that God was right to kill 42 children with bears because they ridiculed a bald man?
If they did they would have to be increadibly evil to use it on children simply for making fun of their hair.
Psst.... don't answer posts other than the OP (against the rules), some here either don't know this or are baiting others into breaking the rules by making comments about Christians posts here.That's not what happened. The man was Elisha. Look at the story in relation to his ministry.
That is definitely one way of looking at it but what if the murder of children is directed by God?
"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told." (Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)
How can this be reconciled with a loving God?
My personal opinion is it's not right to kill anyone. But unfortunately this is where I struggle with faith.
People die. It's part of life.
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