God believes in the death penalty and we can all atest to that. We all have it. But just as today God is justified in our death penalty He was justified in the Old Testament. Actually our death penalty is an Old Testament death penalty. The New Testament killing isn’t going to be pretty either, but just as much as God is Just God is Merciful.
Well, when the death penalty applies to children…
God also sent His only son who was completely sinless to die for our sins. You can look that up too.
This is not salve on the wound here. Jesus did not give up his life as an infant!
No. It’s called Original Sin and yes even babies are born with it including the affects of it, death. It’s very consistent across all humanity all children of Adam have the affects of Original sin. But, just as we recieved death through Adam we recieve life through Christ.
And the babies that God killed didn’t give up their lives, He killed them. But then of course, God loves us. He just didn’t love those babies. Or He loved them so much that He killed them. How does that work?
That’s my concern. Killing of babies.
But Jesus was more innocent than any baby past, present, or future. He deserved death even less than an infant.
We have every right to say its intrinsicly evil to abort a baby in the womb.
God killing babies is 100% good? Very sick thinking. You are welcome to that god…
Yes, by divine law. We do not own the lives of babies in the womb, and we have no right to take them.
Yes, because God owns those babies’ lives, has complete and absolute lordship and ownership over them, has the full and complete right to give and take them. Because God is infinite good, everything he does is by definition good, and he answers to no one.
We do not know, as this is not part of divine revelation. However, we can speculate that because these babies died before the age of reason, they may very well have been counted among the righteous of the Old Testament who waited for Jesus in Sheol until the time he opened heaven to them after he rose.
Especially since those babies were not Jews.
Yes. And no, that is not sick thinking. It is merely an affirmation of what God is. I do not believe God is good based on what he does. I believe he is good based on what he is. That everything he does is good follows from his very definition as God.
Fine. But your god killed babies. Just think on that a while. He killed little babies. That isn’t a god I would follow. I would want a god of love. A god of love doesn’t kill babies, ever!
Again, it’s not for you or me to define what a “God of love” does or does not do. After all, it is because of his great love and condescension that he sent his completely innocent Son to die a most horrible death for me and you.
I didn’t do anything to need that.
Such a god isn’t one I would choose to follow. If that’s what you call love you are welcome to it. It’s not what I call love. Most people that I know are much better than this god you speak of.
This is the same god that dooms us to hell if we don’t worship him? That’s love?
Apparently you are neither sorry nor a careful reader.
To top it off, you don’t know where they are – and are judging God without evidence. They might NOT be in another place than heaven.
Okay. He never ordered a massive geoncide that included pregnant women. I guess I am not sorry, and I can’t read the plain words in the OT.
