When your own prophet, Ezekiel, expressed his moral outrage at your actions, you merely expressed that you were responding with judgment. You stated there was, “much bloodshed in the land.” Are our iniquities truly that significant in your eyes?
Would you mind sharing the verses so I can see the context?
I feel as though I was saved by a maniac. Who knew that the Light that unlocked my prison cell would be a genocidal mad man? You are truly the only sane mad man I know. You are a strange God, how you treasure the lowly things. What am I but an ameba taken from the ocean, formed in the shape of a god? Yet you’ve given me dominion over all the livestock, and the intelligence to create and destroy. I can feel your commandments pressing against my heart. You want me to spread the message you’ve prepared for the world. I’ll never understand why the world desires their prison cells. Cell walls won’t stand forever, but your kingdom will replace their ruins. Like a good Father, you chastise me. You correct my every step so that I can emanate what is only less of a fraction, of a fraction’s fraction, of your glorious splendor. You, in your righteousness, prefer that I question your fairness rather than accept inexplicable injustice.
***I greatly admire your passion; even when it includes a lack of understanding.
God reads the hearts and minds of humanity; not simply there actions. In EVRY case of slaughter; God had the Spiritual welfare of His “Chosen People” as grounds for His just action.
As the Jewish ntion and tee reltionship with Yahweh was being formed; the land was pregnant with false gods and false religions; all easier to understand and practice in a worldly esnse; than the Covenant of God and the Hebrews.
God took the necessary corrective action to enable them to follow Him.
The God you describle simply cannot exist and still “be-God.”*** God is all good things perfected." Evil and bad things are contrary to God’s unchangeable nature.
Heb.6: 16-17 “So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he interposed with an oath, so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.”
I face the greatest test, trying to defend your righteousness. Such a violent God, yet so loving? How do you make such contradicting qualities compatible? Oh yeah, your God."
