God does not transgress his own laws, he abides by them perfectly.
Which is circular only because he grants himself the power. We cannot commit genocide, but he can. We cannot commit murder unless he says it is okay.
undestand your contention about the execution of people including their children/babies. What I have come to appreciate as a parent, is that the decisions I make will affect my children. If i make a bad decision, my children my suffer as a consequence of my own actions.
Which goes against God's own teaching. The one who sins will die, saith the bible. Yet it also says that sins will come upon up to the 3rd and 4th generation. Is it righteous that my infant son or daughter be pulverized on rocks because of something my great-granfather did during one of his youthful indiscretions?
people make themselves enemies of God, then they are making that decision for the children in their care. When a Leader of a nation goes to war with another nation, that leader puts the whole nation at risk of harm.
No one can help where they were born, to whom they were born, and often who is in power, like Sadam. If God punishes people for that then he's not much of God worth serving now is he?
Would you blame the UN for the harm caused by food shortages and medical supply shortages...is it the UN's fault that many children died as a result of Saddams decisions?
you can't compare the UN to God, the creator of all life, the designer of how the world works, etc. Since God is omniscient and omnipotent, he has the ability to stop it all and yet doesn't. Sure, he gave us freewill, but he also gave us the ability and the desire to sin in the first place which makes him culpable for how his progeny turns out, and then he punishes for the things he has created.
When nations chose to war with him (by attaking his people) he was forced to act upon them...he was forced to bring evil upon the attakers in order to bring justice to his own people. Its a sad consequence that many children of those enemies died
It is more than just sad, it is completely unnecessary and entirely avoidable. If God were less discreet, don't you think more people would believe in him and abide by his laws?
the death of anyone is not something God enjoys or takes any delight in
[i]"The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open." -- Hosea 13:16
Yes, I see what you mean. It's obviously all their fault.
It is amazing what justifications people will make for God, yet when Muslims use the same justifications for their atrocities, Christians recoil at the horror. What precisely is the difference? One's a false god and the other is the "true" living God?
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams
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