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Originally Posted by TRFrance
Apples to oranges comparisons [like comparing your alcoholic father's actions to God's actions] are invalid comparisons to begin with, and will always fall short. Anyway...
So essentially you're saying essentially if "God" does something terrible he's not God.
Well, how do you define "terrible"? And who gets to define what's "terrible"? You and I... or God?
Are God's actions limited to what you, or any man, consider to be "just" ?
When God commanded the Israelites in the Old Testament to kill the Caananites, even the innocent babies... do you consider that terrible? Do you now claim that that was "clearly not God" (because you don't see how a loving God would kill sweet little babies) even though God's word plainly tells us He did order those killings? Many unbelievers, atheists, agnostics, etc have made reference to such scriptures as being evidence that either 1... God is not good or 2... God must be a myth because a loving God would never do such a thing.
Their refusal to accept God's word at face value has caused them to reject faith, and reject God's word... to their own destruction. To me,that's sad. But even sadder still is when I see former Christians who have also followed down that same destructive path.
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There is no comparison between temporal destruction and endless torture, this is a fallen world, sometimes evil cultures have required physical destruction for the purpose of God.
Pharaoh stood in the way of God's purpose in the physical world, and he was taken out, this in no way defined his final disposition. Sodom was taken out, Jerusalem was taken out, Saddam was taken out, Hitler was taken out...out of the physical world that is.
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