why is god unfair to the pagan nations in the old testament?

Question

if he only revealed himself to israel in exodus 20:1-23 and not to the pagan nations , why did he punish these pagan nations for worshipping other gods?

if god wanted the pagans to worship him and obey him, he would reveal himself to them but he didn't. it's not their fault why they worship the wrong god

romans 10:14
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?

Answer 1

Interestingly the Jews consider the Christians to be idolators.....

Muslims consider the Trinity to be Polytheism.

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Answer 2

To hopefully help you see and answer your question. The reason that the Lord was "unfair" as you stated to pagan nations in the Old Testament, wasn't because He didn't like them or something as that. It was because when God gave the 10 commandments He stated that I am a jealous God and before me there will be none. That we as men and women of God should never place anything before the Lord and His kingdom. With that being said through out the bible it showed many people and nations that worshiped idol Gods or people and the Lord always had to show His greatness and that there would be no God above Him. Even in this day and age look at some of these great leaders in the church. They forget that it's not about them but it's about the greater purpose and that is God and His will for all of us. So when the get so great that they forget that you see what happens God brings them down and humbles them, and brings them back to the basics. Same applied back in those days. God has to humble us at times so that we see far beyond the tip of our noses and come to realize that there is something far greater that us and our issues and families. God is the greater thing. Read over the bible again. From Gen- Rev, and you'll find the answers that you are seeking. I hope that you find light through the Word of God and I hope that I through the LOrd was able to enlighten you a little bit.

Stay focus and encouraged
May God keep you and bless you and your family.

Answer 3

These were a people who hated God and the Israelites. They refused to worship the one true god. They werent ignorant of God they were told time after time. They didnt want to hear it. Moses kept going to them telling them I AM sent me I AM that I AM per Gods instructions. Thats why they recieved all those plagues, for not listening and holding his people captive. In all instances you find where God doesnt like a certain people is because they were a Godless people and would`nt change thier minds. God is a jealous God and wont tolerate it. How would you feel if you created the world and everything in it including the people and they turn around and worship a rock or a tree or molech who was`nt even real or some stupid something thats going to get all the credit.

Answer 4

Since Israel had the benefits that the pagan nations didn't (namely him and his guidance) then Israels punishment will be the greater. The pagans learned over a period of time and are better servants of God. But don't forget that all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God. God did furnish the Way the Truth and the Life so we are not forgotten.

Answer 5

i can't really think of instances in the bible where G-d acts against "pagan" nations for worshipping other gods. for the most part, whenever G-d commands a war against another nation in the bible, it is because that nation had fallen into some pretty cruel pastimes. often it was because the nation "burned their children in the fires of baal" or something similar. it was not because they worshipped baal, but because IN their worship of baal they were killing innocents. there are also places where the israelites are commanded to go to war against other nations because of their cruel treatment of the israelites, particularly during the exodus from egypt.

this is reflected in G-d's words to abraham in gen 15:13-16, where G-d tells abraham that his descendants will be enslaved and oppressed in a foreign land for four hundred years, and only after four hundred years will they be able to enter the promised land, "for the iniquity of the amorites is not yet complete." the amorites, of course, worshipped other gods. if G-d thought that worshipping other gods was sufficient excuse for warring against a nation, then why did he make the hebrews suffer in slavery for four hundred years waiting for the amorites to become so evil that G-d decided it was finally time for them to be cast out? why not just destroy them right then and save the hebrews four centuries of misery? but G-d didn't want them gone because they worshipped other gods, so he waited until their actions became so immoral that they deserved retribution.

Answer 6

Because he was originally a Tribal God -- the God of Israel, the God of Abraham and Isac and their descendants. He was not the God of All People, just the god of a specific group of people. The prohibitions of worshiping other gods were simply prohibitions against Foreign Gods. His kicking of the asses of other nations was to show the superiority of the Isaelites/early Hebrews.

Answer 7

EX 6:9 But they did not believe. IN 20:1-23 they did. Read of the EVIL the pagans practiced, yet consider, if you had a 'bad' child, would you not have the RIGHT to punish? As for me I believe they had it coming to them! Did he not punish Israel for sin? And later Judah? Will we not go unpunished should WE sin? God is, I believe, MORE than fair.

Answer 8

cookie: This is a loaded question. Firstly; God was dealing with the nation of Israel - the Jews because He was forming a model nation for Himself. The pagan nations around Israel were killing their babies & children in sacrifice to their gods, and involved in other dispicable practices. (Remember; God has the power to bring those pagan people to life again - he gave it to them, in the first place.)

Answer 9

The knowledge of God is written in the hearts of every human being.

Adam traitorously chose to follow satan instead of God, and so declared himself God's enemy ... and ever since ... there have been only two sides here on earth ... the good side (God's) ... and the evil side (Satan's).

God chose to begin with the most backward, most insignificant group of misfits on the planet, and he made them into a great nation, only to watch them repeatedly reject him and whore after false gods.

Then God sent his own son into the world, and they were complicit in his innocent death.

Only afterwards did the world become Christian ... all in God's good time.

The bottom line is ... without God's grace ... which did not exist in the world until Jesus came, atoned for sin, and obtained it for us ... the only thing God owed any man was wrath.

Answer 10

First, the "identifying on" had to do with Israel as a rustic, no longer as a faith. So the question might extra perfect study "fairly of Gentiles." interior the classic international, Judaism and Christianity weren't differentiated from Paganism from a non secular point of view - the two have been incredibly forms of Paganism first of all (besides the undeniable fact that Judaism tended to be extra antagonistic to Paganism than early Christianity). The Jews did no longer seek for converts, and that they only condemned Paganism for particular practices (like human sacrifice or orgiastic rites). What set Judea different than for different countries grow to be their criminal code. the advantages that they claimed because of the fact the chosen human beings have been in keeping with their utility of a particular civil code. The Romans maintained a similar opinion, and believed that they have got been extra advantageous to the "Barbarians" because of the fact of Roman regulation and Roman custom, no longer because of the fact of religious or ethnic variations. Any Gentile who grew to become a citizen of Judea in accordance to Jewish regulation grow to be in the present day Jewish, merely as any Barbarian who grew to become a Roman citizen grow to be in the present day Roman. In historic Judaism, "chosen" grow to be resembling "civilized," and implied an more desirable high quality of existence. All of that is obscurred interior the English Bible. human beings seldom comprehend that the names for God (alongside with Bel, El, Ba'al, Adonai, Elohiym, etc.) have been all a similar names that have been employed by the Pagans for a similar being(s).

Answer 11

How is it that you know so much more about 'What is Fair' than The Maker Himself? I would find it entertaining, if your thoughts weren't inspired by anything but willful self-deceit.

Perhaps you are allowing foolish assumptions to override Reason altogether.. Does it 'comfort' you in some pathetic way?