God is not like a man; He has higher thoughts and higher priorities. And He wants His character to be made known, and He wants His children to become like Him.
How should I be more like God? Tell my children I am going to punish them all there lives for something an ancestor did? Tell them part of their being will last forever and be tortured by me because they don't think as I want them to? Should I send my children to kill most of the neighbors so they'll have land to build their houses and build a place to worship me? Have my children use the surviving neighbors, all virgin children, as whores or sell them into prostitution?
Maybe that was the problem Andrea Yates of Texas had. She was trying to be god-like, and pulled a Noah on her children. People were really freaked over this, yet think it's plausable that a loving god would do worse.
No, none of you have answers for the hard questions, except to say God's thoughts are higher than ours. That's an easy out and explains nothing.
How serious it is, and how powerful God is.
I was raised with fire and brimstone preaching Sunday morning, Sunday night plus prayer meeting on Wed. I know how serious this all is. If I thought any of it was plausable, I'd be on my knees in a second. As for God's power, he either does not exist or is impotent. I hear proofs such as God's healing or God blessed us with money to buy food. If he wanted belief, the big man would make a few amputated legs and arms grow back. Lizards can do it, why can't God? If he wanted belief He would strike dead anyone who touched his graven monument, as the book said he did with the ark.
Eyeball
We are not punished for something ancestors did. True it was through ancestors that sin entered the world, but we are punished for our own sins. He has given us all the proof we need, why should he have to do anything more?
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