What did they do to deserve to die?
2006-09-11 03:09:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think that you are referring to 1 chronicles 21 where david wrongly ordered a census of israel and as a result 70,000 israelites were struck down by Jehovah.
On first reading it could seem that thousands of innocent people died just because David sinned, is this correct?
Well, we have to remember that we do not have all of the facts, and so we cannot presume that that was the case. can any human today say for sure that those 70,000 were not guilty of some serious sin not mentioned in the historical record? It was well known that what david was doing was not approved of by god, Joab in verse 3 knew and warned david not to take the census. Were those who died in some way also deliberately disobeying god's commands? or was it something else altogether?
The truth is we do not know, because that is not explained. What we do know is that Jehovah's standards of justice are perfect, and he always acts in a righteous way in harmony with those standards - even at great cost to himself, also he never destroys the righteous with the wicked - Genesis 18:25
Just pause and reflect on how Jehovah has dealt with humans in the past. Did he simply wait until Cain had murdered Abel and then banish him? No, God warned Cain beforehand about the wrong attitude he was developing. (Gen. 4:2-16) Jehovah provided the innocent a way of escape before he destroyed the wicked in Sodom. (Gen. 19:12-25) And in dealing with Israel, God continually sent his servants the prophets to warn the people against their bad ways before he brought punishment.—Jer. 7:25, 26.
These, and many other examples that could be mentioned, show what fine qualities Jehovah has. With good cause the Israelites could describe him as “a God of acts of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness.” (Neh. 9:17) In all his dealing Jehovah matches what Moses and Elihu said about him: “All his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness, with whom there is no injustice.” “God himself does not act wickedly, and the Almighty himself does not pervert judgment.”—Deut. 32:4; Job 34:12.
So even though we do not have, at this late date, all of the details concerning David’s sin in taking a census, or the resulting pestilence, we have good reason to acknowledge that the course God took must have been altogether righteous and just, as have been his other activities involving imperfect humans.
2006-09-12 02:34:02 · answer #1 · answered by Frax 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was the representative head. Like Adam transferred original sin to all his descendants.
2006-09-11 03:26:25 · answer #2 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sin has a ripple effect,you never live and die to yourself, your effecting someone in your life right .... now
2006-09-11 03:15:41 · answer #3 · answered by holyghost130 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tho I do not believe that G-d has a one on one relationship with people---maybe at times there was a need for it, and we cannot question why G-d does what He does. There is a reason.
2006-09-11 03:13:07 · answer #4 · answered by Shossi 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because that's the way the fairy tale got written in the first place.
2006-09-11 03:14:41 · answer #5 · answered by stevewbcanada 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was King, his sin is the nations sin!
2006-09-11 10:08:04 · answer #6 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never question the will of a psycho God if you know what's good for you.
2006-09-11 03:15:04 · answer #7 · answered by bonzo the tap dancing chimp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sometimes it would be more hurtful if they themselves saw the errors of their ways...God bless!Beside those died are probably the lucky ones.They will be with God sooner.Amen!
2006-09-11 03:17:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋