Why did God order innocent people to be killed?

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There were babies that had never sinned before that got killed. Why? I am wanting to understand this. It really bothers me. Can someone please shed some light on this for me?

Answer 1

Have you ever noticed that babies grow up to become adults?
If their parents are wicked, hell-bent sinners and they raise their children the same way, is it a greater mercy to let them live and end up in hell or put an end to the matter?
I think you have only scratched the surface in your seeking to understand the true nature of things.
God once destroyed the entire race of mankind except for 8 people that He preserved through the flood. The reason?

"The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them."

"Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth."

Genesis 6:5-7;11-13


Please read the whole record before you come to any conclusions. If you believe any of this do you then believe that God became a man in the person of Jesus Christ and died on a cross for the sins of mankind so that all who repent of their sins and put their faith in Him can receive the free gift of eternal life?
Please stop listening to the enemies of God. They are inspired by Satan, the same one who deceived mankind from the beginning. All who are persuaded by him will share in his fate.
God cares more for the souls of men than you or I.

Answer 2

A tough question to answer in this forum

I'll strongly recommend for you to read :

"Safe in the Arms of God", Truth from Heaven About the Death of a Child, by John MacArthur

This book was written after MacArthur had a question asked by Larry King as a follow up on 9/11....."What about a two year old baby, crushed at the bottom of World Trade Center?"

Reply: "Instant Heaven"

Unfortunately, MacArthur didn't get en opportunity to give an explanation.....but here it is, in a book for those who seek serious answers, based on our Holy Scripture.

Do a little background check on John MacArthur by visiting the website: www.gty.org

In Christian Love

Answer 3

Your question is part of a larger issue that even Job struggled with, i.e. why does God allow suffering?

From Job's experience he never received a direct answer. He was, however, rebuked by God and humbled. He acknowledged that God's ways may not all be revealed to man, and man has no right to know anything except by the grace of God. Job was humbled, and repented. Remember, Job was the greatest man in the East. He was a man who feared God and turned away from evil.

We may never know why God allows suffering, or cancer to take children, etc. Why did Job's children have to perish via the fire from heaven in the fields as God allowed Satan to wield? Regardless, Job NEVER cursed God. In fact, he remained faithful, saying that the calamity of God is a terror to me. He rebuked his own wife rhetorically asking if we accept the blessings of God, how then can we not accept the adversities?

The most important thing, regardless of the reason, is that we prove our faith is unconditional. Our faith, our thankfulness, our reverence, and our fear of God should never depend upon what He does or does not do for us. He is always worthy of our praise.

My own opinion is this. Consider God, who is perfect and holy. He loves us so much that He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to live a sinless life and die a sin-bearing death. There was absolutely nothing fair about that. Yet Love abounded. Love is not fair. Love sometimes means you are the willing victim. This loving God knows that we shall live forever. Bodily death is but a blip on the divine radar screen. And His most loved children are in a cursed world full of sin and suffering. Yet He is often patient and longsuffering. In mercy He perhaps wishes to remove us from our desperate situation in sin. To do so means death, so we can see God. When the little one's are taken by God, I can only imagine that He could not wait. They were too important for the missions and fellowship He has for them in heaven. After all, as Deut. 32:39 states, we are all His, and no one can escape His hand.

Answer 4

Well you first have to go with the assumption that God exists,a bold assumption if ever there were one. However what really happened all those times in the Bible where "God" ordered the death of innocents was this: Those books of the Bible were written years,sometimes decades after the events that inspired the Biblical versions,and any supposed call by God to kill any particular people,was actually the will of the killers themselves,using "Gods Will" as an excuse for their barbarism.

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Answer 5

For his good pleasure! It is written throughout the Bible... In fact, he laughs at human suffering! Why do you think that he created a sulfuric burning Hell to torment for ever and ever the vast majority of the human race that he loves so much?

Job 9:23 (NIV) When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.

Job 17:6 (NIV) "God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.

God endorses every word that Job says..

Job 42:7 (NIV) After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.

Job 42:11 (KJV) Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over ALL THE EVIL that the LORD had brought upon him:

Answer 6

innocent? is anyone innocent? i believe God ordered the Israellites to clear out the land because the Gentiles were living in idolatry against God and didn't want the Israellites to be polluted by them.

Answer 7

God never orders killing innocent people.
……killing one innocent person is as evil as killing the whole humanity and saving one life is like saving the whole humanity. ( Qur’an, chapter 5 verse 32).

“…Take not life, which Allah hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus does He command you, that ye may learn wisdom.” (Al-An`am: 151) “Nor take life, which Allah has made sacred, except for just cause. And if anyone is slain wrongfully, We have given his heir authority (to demand Qisas or to forgive): but let him not exceed bounds in the matter of taking life; for he is helped (by the law)” (Al-Isra’: 33)

Answer 8

God does not "order" people killed. He allows certain things to happen. We, as humans, cannot begin to realize the big picture that God sees, especially in things that pain us. But our faith in the loving and sovereign Lord tells us that all will bring glory to Him, and the enemy will be defeated. We cannot tell from any "happening" how many people may have come to the Lord during a tragedy, or how many marriages were saved, or any number of other things.

Have faith in God. He has control of all things.

Answer 9

do you think that god wants these killings to occur? or course he does not want innocent people dying. the main reason why these senseless murder occur b/c god cannot intervene. if god intervene we would have no free will, we would be robots being controlled by someone else.

Answer 10

Unfortunately, there is no simple answer to this. On one end of the spectrum, you have atheists closing their minds and saying, "It's all a fairy tale, who cares?" You care; that's why you asked. Then you have people who are angry with God (or more accurately with religion) who say, "Because God hates us," or "God doesn't care." But if God doesn't care, why would he bother with the whole justice thing to begin with. And if he hated us or were evil, why would he keep referring to us as his children and likening our relationship with him to that of a husband and wife or a mother and child? On the other end of the spectrum, we have people saying, "Don't question the Bible. Don't question God. You are not worthy."

But over and over again, God has received questioning quite well. Almost every prophet of the Old Testament asked, "How long, Lord?" How long will evil prevail? How long will your people have to suffer? Like the prophets, we have every right to question our Father in Heaven, and if we seek Him diligently in prayer, He will reveal himself to us to the extent that our minds can comprehend.

Here, finally, is my take on God killing innocents (or ordering the killing of innocents. God is Justice. Justice, the meting out of what we deserve, good and bad, is not just something God wants to see happen, but is an integral part of His pathos. But God is also Mercy. This sounds like a contradiction in terms to the religiously ignorant. (We all seek justice, but we all want mercy; do we contradict ourselves?) God's Mercy is also not just a passion of His, but a part of who He is. Mercy is necessary to balance Justice. As the Psalmist wrote, "[the Lord's] anger only lasts a short while, but His mercy endures forever." I hate to, but at this point I must sound like the non-questioning group. God's ways, Isaiah tell us, are much higher than ours; we cannot know His thoughts. Our brains just can't comprehend eternity. We cannot understand how the pain and suffering of this world could possibly lead to a better world. The closest thing I can liken it to is when I have taken my babies to get immunized. They cannot understand why or how their Daddy, who is supposed to love and care for them, is holding them down for this stranger to hurt them. They feel tired and ill for ages (or so it seems to an infant). They cannot see how the pain will lead to a longer, healthier life. We have trouble seeing how our pains and frustrations in this world prepare us for the next and are meant to draw us nearer to the One who waits for us there with open arms. The babies who were removed from earth were removed by a loving Creator. They were better off dying sinless than growing up in a torturous, agonizingly brutal and cruel culture to become hurt, scarred people who would only hurt their own children in the same savage cycle. That's just my take on it. I hope it helps. You can e-mail me if you'd like more clarification.