Posted by timo on July 10, 2005 at 09:46:49:
In Reply to: life and death...no, not an emergency posted by cav on July 08, 2005 at 20:31:58:
My question is when did 'life' become such a measure of goodness? It seems to be the ultimate yardstick by which we measure the goodness of anything. Does this stem from a fear of death? Even Jesus himself told his followers that they would face death and torture, and God in the old testamant repeatedly told the Isrealites to slaughter every member of a people they were warring against...now if you use the preservation of life as the ultimate measure here, God is just evil! He told them to slaughter non-combatants, and Jesus knew in advance people would kill his followers and did nothing about it.
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the problem is people measuring what is fair and good based on an idealistic humanitarian eutopian dream. The hard reality is we don't always get it, we can't comprehend, but God is in control and does love us. Life sucks sometimes and it's never fair. My mom used to tell me that all the time when I was a kid. And I was always asking her why, and she'd say because, and that was that.
I digress, anyway, when a human tries to measure what is just in terms of God's doing based on our own self serving ideas of what is fair, then we will always come to the conclusion that He is Evil, as you said. Playing a realy cruel joke. However, we have understand that we don't have to understand. breath deep. right, hold for a moment. good. release. ah, that feels nice.
Father forgive me for ever questioning your motivations...