Does God still kill people?

[Maranatha]

LOL! If you wanna hold onto that belief then don’t read the passage in Genesis I quoted! Actually, don’t read Genesis at all, because God kills a good number of people in that book

Did you read the article. It says in part,

God therefore allowed calamities to fall upon those who were unwilling to cooperate with his grace and become vessels of light and truth. This happened with the Canaanites. It happened with the Jewish people in all their trials (including most notably the Babylonian Exile). And it has happened to Christians as well. The reason that the Christian community is fragmented and has suffered many setbacks is that many of us have not been willing to cooperate with God’s grace and have turned our back on God’s truth.

Andc yet, through the drama of the last almost forty centuries (taking us back to the time of Abraham), God has progressively advanced his program to the point that now fully half of mankind (ounting Jews, Christians, and Muslims) worships the Creator of the World and the God of Abraham, even if they do not all understand him perfectly. By the standards of the Old Testament, when the world was swallowed in pagan darkness, we are living in an age in which the ancient prophecy has been fulfilled and “the knowledge of the Lord covers the earth like the waters covers the seas.”

 

[TheOpenTheist]

Did you read the article. It says in part,

The bible says explicitly, that when God kills someone or a group of people it is because He willed it to occur. Not because He failed to stop some calamity from occuring.

Read the book of Jonah. Especially Jonah 4:2. Also Jeremiah 18:7-10. God ACTIVELY WILLS to kill them or to do harm to them.

Isaiah 46:9-11 is a good example also. It shows God acting to bring about His will. Not passively watching and allowing things to happen.

 

[mdcpensive1]

I believe the word “kill” is the wrong word to use. It has negative conotations. Since our lives are a gift from God and also the souls He gave us, He has the right to call us home to Him for our judgement. He is in control and knows what is going on. Our mental capacity cannot fathom the depths of the knowledge of God and what He intends. Anyway, this is not our home. We are made to be happy with Him for eternity.

mdcpensive1

 

[Maranatha]

The bible says explicitly, that when God kills someone or a group of people it is because He willed it to occur. Not because He failed to stop some calamity from occuring.

Read the book of Jonah. Especially Jonah 4:2. Also Jeremiah 18:7-10. God ACTIVELY WILLS to kill them or to do harm to them.

Isaiah 46:9-11 is a good example also. It shows God acting to bring about His will. Not passively watching and allowing things to happen.

I think you are mistaking his active will and his passive will.

 

[jburgherr]

Lets see…

Our Father, who art in heaven…

Our best example of what fatherhood should be is God. What good father would want the death of their own child. Even if the child was evil to the bone. A good father would love the child, hate the evil things they do, but still hope that they will repent!

“Does God still kill people?” Hmmm…This question sounds like it came from the one who said: “If you eat from the tree of knowledge, you will not surely die!”

The murderer and father of lies from the begining!

 

[Koru]

“Does God still kill people?”

wow, what a crooked question, may i reply with an equally absurd question?

“Have you told your family and friends you’re a homosexual yet?”

 

[japhy]

WHOA! That’s not true! MAtthew 7 teaches HOW TO JUDGE CORRECTLY. The apostle Paul criticizes the Corinthians for not judging among those in the Body of Christ in 1 Cor 6:1-5. Judging is good and Jesus taught to judge rightly.

Yes, Matt 7 deals with removing the hypocrisy from our judging (much like Rom 2:1-3), and John 7:24 reminds us not to judge by appearance. But at the same time, we are not to execute God’s judgment upon others; we can point things out (specks in eyes) so long as our eyes are free of logs.

And Paul’s advice in 1 Cor 6 (cf. 1 Cor 2:15) must be interpreted alongside Jesus’s parable in Matt 13 about the weeds growing among the wheat. Remember that Paul is speaking about resolving problems within the Church, not judging people outside the Church to be worthy of immediate smiting by the LORD. But Paul also says “Why judge your brother?” and “Let us no longer judge one another” in Romans 14.

 

[Teflon93]

Well, there is the matter of all the people killed in The Flood, and Pharaoh’s drowned army, Sodom and Gomorrah, etc.

It should be noted that God has a covenantal relationship with Man. If we either do not enter into the covenant or fail to keep it, the Bible is rife with examples where He slays us. As Job discovered, God reserves the right to do so on the basis of His being Creator.

We are also instructed not to put Him to the test, however, and the pastor you mentioned seems to have forgotten this, as he has forgotten the commandment to love his neighbor as himself.

We forget these things at our own peril.

Let’s not forget to pray for him.