Guantanamo

an eye for an eye?

Re: Guantanamo
Welcome to the forum, Word. I'm sure you will find many here worthy of your input.

Re: Guantanamo
WordofGod, are you suggesting that all of the prisoners at Guantanamo be released? Why? What about prisoners in other places?

Why do you suppose that God would want the blind healed now, after failing to do so for the last 2,000 years?



God is the original "do as I say, not as I do" deity, isn't he? He hid his face from his people, then when they turned to other gods he cursed them and took revenge instead of winning them back with his goodness and kindness:

8 "Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations. 9 Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again. 10 Therefore in your midst fathers will eat their children, and children will eat their fathers. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds. 11 Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I myself will withdraw my favor; I will not look on you with pity or spare you. 12 A third of your people will die of the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue with drawn sword.
13 "Then my anger will cease and my wrath against them will subside, and I will be avenged. And when I have spent my wrath upon them, they will know that I the LORD have spoken in my zeal.
14 "I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by. 15 You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke. I the LORD have spoken. 16 When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food. 17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the LORD have spoken." (Ezekiel 5)

It amazes me that people accept this sort of appalling behavior as God's right. No loving deity would starve innocent children to death or have them slaughtered, no matter what their parents had done. But the God of the Bible does so time after time after time, Egyptian children, Caananite children, Israelite children, David's son, and even his own son. It makes no sense for God to require that someone be tortured and killed before he could forgive anyone else for having the flaws he designed into them.

Interesting posts. Keep chopping. I need the firewood.