Can God be Guilty Of Murder and Genocide?

[truetofaith]

Who is man to convict the omnipotent, omnibenevolent God?

Amen!

 

[o_mlly]

Who is man to convict the omnipotent, omnibenevolent God?

Amen. Who is God that He would allow His creatures to judge their Creator? Great, indeed!

 

[Hunho]

If God comes down and takes your life from you, is he guilty of murder? If God wipes out a race of people is he guilty of genocide?

I really think you are asking these questions in the wrong context. You have to keep in mind two critical aspects of God’s actions, neither of which apply to actions by humans:

1. God is truth and therefore all He does is–must be– just.
2. The context of all of God’s actions is the totality of a being’s existence as seen from the point of view of eternity, i.e., outside of time as we experience it and including what for us is the future consequences of His actions.
   Given those two facts, do the terms “murder” and “genocide” apply at all?