God is our example. Genocide is good?

You mUST be kidding, right? Oh, please tell me there are NOT a lot of you out there...

God is our example. Genocide is good?

Christians who believe in the Flood, justify God’s use of genocide as a good way to adjust the mentality of a people.

How then can Christians criticize man using the same tool. They cannot unless they also criticize God.
If God is to be our example of moral and ethical behavior, then we must embrace genocide as a viable means to an end.

Happily I do not believe in the flood for the main reason of not thinking that genocide is a good method of solving problems.

God could have just as easily snapped His fingers to adjust mankind. In this way He could not be accused of killing babies and children who were completely innocent of any wrongdoing.

Why did God use genocide if it is a poor example for the methodology of social adjustment?
Why would He open Himself to harsh and perhaps justified criticism?

Regards
DL

God has the power of life and death in His hands; He can and will resurrect all those people that you mentioned. He is God, and all life comes from Him, and belongs to Him, so He has a right to take human life if He so chose. Mankind on the other hand does not....except when administering justice.

You agree then that genocide is good because God used it?

I do not think that God is stupid enough to ever place Himself in a position of having to use such a tool. It make Him look like a fool who could not find a better way to segregate 8 out of billions.

Regards
DL

I would think that the more like me who do not believe in genocide, the better it would be for all of us.

If you think genocide is a good idea then get a shrink or state your reasons.

Regards
DL

And yet Christ did say in Matthew 24:43, Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. Jesus confirms that a man has a right to defend what is his. Now trying to protect ones property sometimes might result in someone being hurt or killed, yet Christ did not tell the defender here he should turn the other cheek. And where Christ did tell us to turn the other cheek, that was not an example of how we should live. And if it was, then his statement here in Matthew 24 would be a counterdiction.

And yet Christ did say in Matthew 24:43, Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. Jesus confirms that a man has a right to defend what is his. Now trying to protect ones property sometimes might result in someone being hurt or killed, yet Christ did not tell the defender here he should turn the other cheek. And where Christ did tell us to turn the other cheek, that was not an example of how we should live. And if it was, then his statement here in Matthew 24 would be a counterdiction.

That's your words not mine.



God does as He pleased, and no one can prevent Him from doing His will.

Wait a minute...what forum are we in? Is this not the religion and philosophy forum? And there are some here who believe genocide or any other kind of -cide, is a "good thing"????? You've got to be kidding? Say it isn't so.
Better yet, who said that it was?

Oh, give it a rest...I should have known...you'd have something to say.
Christ is now inciting folks to kill one another? Seek help...pronto. I'm serious.

I love how people still think there was a flood that covered the entire earth

fun facts

To accomplish the Flood...

The average rainfall during the flood would be around 400 inches an hour. Moblie Alabama currently receives more rain then any other city in America, it averages 67 inches a year

By the time the rain started the atmosphere would have been so full of rain that the planet could not support human life

here's a fun one, THERE ISN'T ENOUGH WATER ON PLANET EARTH TO DO THAT

independent studies around the world have verified there is no evidence to indicated that a worldwide flood ever occurred

I could go on

Forget God, just take the government, for example. Governments break every law in their books on daily basis, yet prosecute their subjects for violations of the same laws. They execute, break and enter, kidnap, incarcerate, extort, torture, racket, stalk, defraud, etc. Might is right. So, you have many mights to complaint about before you get to God.

Forget God, just take the government, for example. Government breaks every law in it's books on daily basis, yet prosecutes it's subjects for violations of the same laws on daily basis. It executes, breaks and enters, kidnaps, holds against will, extorts, tortures, rackets, stalks, defrauds, falsifies, cooks it's books, etc. Might is right. So, you have many mights to complaint about before you get to God.