[jimmyray]

I often wonder about that. People find it scandalous that God would burn up a little girl, so to speak, but what about the question of mortality? Is it not equally, perhaps even more scandalous that God causes us (little girl or old woman [or man]) to die in the first place?

I've read Samuel Clemons rejected the Bible and Christianity because the question of the flood, and the destruction of so many (thousands, millions, billions?) "innocents".

[heartwood]

My son is going through a crisis of faith right now because of God’s orders in the Old Testament through His prophets to destroy the enemies of Israel, down to the last baby.

I went through the same crisis years ago - and never resolved it, except that I have come to trust God enough to wait for answers in heaven.