the book of job, and an unjust god

Sidelined writes:If law does not apply to god then how can he become angry at those who see this as unjust?In the christian world what is the compensation for the loss of,say,ones complete family in a war?Do we not find is questionable that speculation such as this is made by people in relativly peaceful countries who do not have to experience the degradation and fear on a daily basis.
Imagine your position on this if armed strangers were to come in and force you to witness the death of each of your closest family by placing a .45 to their temple and pulling the trigger while your were seeing the horror in their eyes.Imagine it was your son or daughter?And then tell me the ends justify the means.Tell me that god was just.

Berberry writes:Remember, the passage I cited states explicitly that God ordered the slaughter of the Amalekites.

Berberry writes:If one wants to make the case that God is unjust, one has only to read 1 Samuel 15. God orders Israel to attack and utterly destroy an entire race of people, going out of his way to order that children and even suckling infants be killed. It's passages like this that make me wonder just why it is that we're supposed to be afraid of Satan. If this is really God then he's a lot like Hitler.

17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled; )
28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

Dan Carroll writes:Even the suckling infants?

Berberry writes:I guess God has a long memory, huh?

14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.

Berberry writes:You haven't been paying attention, have you?

I guess God has a long memory, huh?

Berberry writes:Kinda funny isn't it; here we are, remembering Amalek.

Dan Carroll writes:Except that he didn't miracle away their lives. He specifically ordred men to kill them. Attacking armies of man don't traditionally offer painless deaths. (Nor do flood waters, while we're on the subject.

Berberry writes:No, it means he contradicts himself. How can you erase the remembrance of something by memorializing it?

Berberry writes:No, we can assume. God said he would wipe out their memory under heaven. What he might have meant is immaterial, except that we might ask: why can't God say what he means?

Dan Carroll writes:Here's a clue: impale yourself on a sword.It's not a subtle feeling; you should be able to get the gist of it.

Berberry writes:I dunno, maybe because when we try to interpret God we fail? But what does this say about biblical innerancy?

Dan Carroll writes:My hypothesis: getting killed by soldiers hurts.Yours: no it doesn't.