Concluding thoughts on God's conception of good and evil vs. man's
My last post discussed seemingly contradictory facets of God's character. Ultimately the truth of some of this can be found with Christ; who atones for sinful man and is the ultimate and final intercessor. Nonetheless He gave Moses at least a unique position to intercede in a similar role. There are other examples such as Gideon in Judges where he asked the sun and moon to stand still which is stated to be unique. Some things we consider unique to Christ often overlook many similar miracles that He worked through Elijah including seeing someone rise from the dead (after administering a sort of CPR); multiplying food as for others as well as himself during famine and many other things. Christ uniquely was able to heal a blind man accoring to the Gospel in John 9; perhaps that is why the whole chapter is on that subject and the persecution of the man was so fierce since the Pharisees hated God to work outside their own perception of proper boundaries.
Back to the subject of destruction of different nations; the logic can be found in regard to their sins reaching a certain point with child sacrifice; idol worship; etc. but still seeing children being killed isn't easy to stomach. We have the same feeling as Jeremiah the "weeping prophet" when thinking of a book like Lamentations; as well as much of the book of Jeremiah seeing the horror of God's judgment where mothers would eat their own children. In this matter we once again can look to the concept of killing vs murder. If someone was to go out and kill a bunch of innocent children of course it would be murder. That is different than a police officer shooting a guilty armed offender or an army fighting and killing an opposing force that presented a clear and present danger. Of course each army would justify their own actions. That leads us to Joshua 5:13-15 where the angel is on Gods side
Concluding thoughts on God's conception of good and evil vs. man's
My last post discussed seemingly contradictory facets of God's character. Ultimately the truth of some of this can be found with Christ; who atones for sinful man and is the ultimate and final intercessor. Nonetheless He gave Moses at least a unique position to intercede in a similar role. There are other examples such as Gideon in Judges where he asked the sun and moon to stand still which is stated to be unique. Some things we consider unique to Christ often overlook many similar miracles that He worked through Elijah including seeing someone rise from the dead (after administering a sort of CPR); multiplying food as for others as well as himself during famine and many other things. Christ uniquely was able to heal a blind man accoring to the Gospel in John 9; perhaps that is why the whole chapter is on that subject and the persecution of the man was so fierce since the Pharisees hated God to work outside their own perception of proper boundaries.
Back to the subject of destruction of different nations; the logic can be found in regard to their sins reaching a certain point with child sacrifice; idol worship; etc. but still seeing children being killed isn't easy to stomach. We have the same feeling as Jeremiah the "weeping prophet" when thinking of a book like Lamentations; as well as much of the book of Jeremiah seeing the horror of God's judgment where mothers would eat their own children. In this matter we once again can look to the concept of killing vs murder. If someone was to go out and kill a bunch of innocent children of course it would be murder. That is different than a police officer shooting a guilty armed offender or an army fighting and killing an opposing force that presented a clear and present danger. Of course each army would justify their own actions. That leads us to Joshua 5:13-15 where the angel is on Gods side
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