sometimes whole cities? isn’t this ethnic cleansing?
2007-01-22 10:25:41 · 6 answers · asked by tandypants 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think that when God destroyed all living life on earth with a flood that he killed way more people than he ever ordered put to death later.
The Christians will say that God is perfect and never changes, almost in the same breath that they will say that the covenant has changed and God doesn't act like that anymore.
I guess they didn't hear about that enormous tsunami a couple years ago...
And if you say that isn't God's fault, then what kind of jerk is he to let it happen anyway, knowing the mass destruction it caused?
2007-01-22 10:31:27 · answer #1 · answered by Michael 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When people live in peace, they begin to ask questions like this because they have no idea what the real world is like and the unbelievably horrible things that happen every day.
So let me ask you this: if we were to discover where Hezbollah was training 500 suicide bombers for deployment, and we went in and wiped out every last one of them, would that be ethnic cleansing?
How many innocent lives would we save as a result, how many entire cities or towns would we save from the worst kind of oppression imaginable by men like this?
Now, can you tell me whether or not we know how to judge correctly the Bible stories you're questioning, especially since we have in our possession references outside the Bible of how criminal some ethnic groups were living in Canaan, some of whom practice human sacrifice and would cut the throats of their own children for sacrifice!
Where is your context for such a judgment?
2007-01-22 18:33:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All I know is that he knows what he is doing and we are all here for a specific purpose. I think it was already known that those people were going to die the ways they did but they fulfilled a purpose. I know it seems very horrible to us but it is all apart of God's enormous plan. We are here to learn valuable and eternal lessons so we can grow and become more like God. Those horrible deaths fulfilled this purpose for those people as gruesome as it seems. Those people are very much alive somewhere and their spirits can never die.
2007-01-22 19:29:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those stories are all from the Old Testiment which is basically the Jewish Bible. Gods relationship with man changed with Jesus Christ.
2007-01-22 18:29:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because times were different back then, mankind was barbaric and God dealt with them at the point of development they were.
2007-01-22 18:29:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because he has a thirst for blood.
2007-01-22 18:28:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋