Posted on 06/28/2008 3:05:19 PM PDT by jwalburg
It's also funny that "anti-chr*stian liberals" spend so much time trying to legislate the "sermon on the mount."
Brutality has never made any sense to me. I'm not sure what you are getting at. Does the brutality of the Old Testament compare with Hiroshima or Nagasaki?
And I am a Patriot. I believe in the office of a soldier. I respect many aspects of being a soldier. Namely.
“I have a problem with the slaughtering of children though!”
So, rather than requiring Israel to implement a vast social/child services institution, the Lord delivered innocent children from both their immoral parents and took kids to Heaven.
And the obvious fact is, like a rock thrown into a pond, that when we sin, it affects, to various degrees, others who were not guilty of our sins. That itself can be part of our chastisement.
“But, since you think God judges nations, which ones has he judged in the last 2,000 years?”
Good question, and i believe plenty have. Recently this would include Japan, whose war crimes such as the RAPE OF NANJING did not go unnoticed. Germany is another. America itself is and will be judged by God whom it is at war against. Yes, bad things can happen to good people, but just as Jesus warned that God would judge Israel for their impenitence, so God today does judge nations, in accordance with the light and grace given them.
(1 Th 2:16) “Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.”
(Jer 18:7-8) “At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; {8} If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.”
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