Isn't there a bettery way?
Perhaps a "time-out"?
2007-01-12 02:18:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hes fair. Its the law of cause and effect. Killing, torture, slavery have their seeds and does not occur without reasons.
2007-01-12 02:26:03 · answer #1 · answered by randyap 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. The idea has been introduced and then reinforced consistently from the beginning in the garden, there is a very heavy price to be paid for transgression of the law. There is no better way to begin to explain to someone what spiritual death is apart from showing them physical death. The natural first, then the spiritual. This does not mean that those who suffered such things were worse sinners, to the contrary Jesus explained that this was not the case. He also explained that ultimately that would be the end off all who don't repent. Those who ultimately go to hell will do so for the simple fact that they wouldn't come to Him.
2007-01-12 10:21:24 · answer #2 · answered by james p 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A great display of little imagination. God as depicted in the Bible would be an ideal tribal war-chief.
What about the NT? So what? Just because he got all warm and fuzzy doesn't erase the atrocities he committed on innocent people.
2007-01-12 10:24:45 · answer #3 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you really think about it. God Theory teaches slave keeping.
"I'll kill your kids and their kids and their kids" The threat on generations of Hebrews is really my point. To control a slave, is it not wise to frighten them on behalf of their children?
Torture was a common training method for slaves.
Control of the mind in any manor is indeed slavery.
For the time when the religion was created it was to control slaves and in today's world slavery is criminal.
There are better ways.
2007-01-12 10:31:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Really? I am quite curious as to who exactly it was that Jesus tortured or enslaved. Maybe his apostles did it? Must have been St. Francis of Assisi, or Mother Theresa maybe. Or was it the Agha Kahn, or the Rabbi Schneerson?
Funny - but the holiest people you can think of always seem to eschew such things.
2007-01-12 10:24:42 · answer #5 · answered by evolver 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Entertainment!
2007-01-12 10:22:05 · answer #6 · answered by Paul H 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is NOT God's justice it is the justice of the religions and they are all screwed up and how dare they enacted their own cpar and attribute it to God's will.
I would smite these weenies one and all!
2007-01-12 10:26:42 · answer #7 · answered by larrydoyle52 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, it's almost like the incidents you're referring to happened in ancient times or something....
2007-01-12 10:22:20 · answer #8 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is evermore just than humanity could ever concieve of being.
Our idea of justice is letting criminals file lawsuits on homeowners when they injure themselves. Our idea of justice is killing unborn babies in the name of "freedom."
2007-01-12 10:28:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Spare the eternal-torture-in-hell, spoil the child.
2007-01-12 10:21:35 · answer #10 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋