No, we aren’t asking for my approval, Freddy.
I’m asking you. Does God, who created us, have any ‘rights’ over us? Do those rights include the right, along with the right to give us life, to require the right of our death? Does God, in fact, not require of us both our lives and our deaths, either through His direct will or through His permissive will?
If God has a right to give us life and, as a direct result of that life, the consequence that at some point in time we WILL ALL DIE, then ‘how’ we die becomes a moot question.
Those who die comfortably in bed in their 90s after a rich full life are not somehow ‘better’ than those who die in their 40s from a painful disease after a difficult life. . .or those who die in their youth from accident, disease, famine, or war.
It seems to me that you are condemning God’s actions here as being immoral in His “choice’ of, in a situation of warfare (spiritual warfare as well as ‘temporal’), of having the ‘innocent’ be slaughtered along with the guilty; indeed, it appears that you have cast the Israelites as the guilty ones and the Canaanites one and all as innocent victims. . .victims of GOD, no less.
You are not seeing ‘the rest of the story’ and in fact you are firmly bound in a totally ‘natural’ world in which God is a creation of humanity (only obviously ‘bigger, stronger, faster’ and more powerful) yet not as ‘moral’ as modern man. Or, you appear to think that the God men created back when they weren’t as woke today wasn’t as ‘moral’ as man is today, which would explain those pesky Bible passages where God does these ‘terrible’ things to human beings. . .as if God were not ‘above’ humans but was then at best ‘equal to’ humanity (who created him) and, in modern times, LESS than humanity who are so very much more moral.
So is that the case? I mean, if you don’t believe that God is the creator of humanity then it’s no wonder you find him so much ‘less’ than the glorious humanity we have evolved to today.
But if you DO think He’s the creator, then it would be like an amoeba suddenly mouthing off at the King of the Universe complaining that its one cell was the height of perfection and how, in making other creatures ‘different’ the King had gone off his rocker and was obviously nowhere near as perfect as that very stable genius amoeba.
