Look what happened to the boys who mocked Elisha. She bears made dinner out of those boys.
Look what happened to Herrod who accepted the praises of the people who said, "It is the voice of God, not of a man," Angel standing nearby struck him and he fell down being eat up with worms.
Yes, I saw the USA Today article after it was told me. I found someone who kept some back copies of it. We went back through the stack that was a couple of weeks old. I asked the person, (a neighbor) if I could keep the paper which he granted me permission to keep. Unfortunately, I did not keep it.
The story of the deaths (not murder, mind you) of the prisoners was told by the man of God himself, and also verified to me in private by one of the prisoners that was "saved" and later released.
But, what is the point? You can either accept this as possible, or just reject it out of hand. There is no need to worry your mind over it. It you have trouble with this incident, you would have a great deal of trouble with many other incidents of modern times.
It seems that a lot of folks are not bothered about whether a story like this one is actually true or not. (And yes, my belief is that this particular story is not true in all of its details. Most likely, it has been embellished a lot, and grew with the retellings. Not accusing you of anything, but the "man of God" has most likely done the embellishments. That's usually how it goes.)
As to whether this was murder, are you not implying that God indeed killed that mocker? Where did the lightning come from? The man of God himself? If so, it was a murder committed by that man of God. If it was from God, then God was the murderer. Was it a natural event (genuine lightning)? You went to some trouble to rule that out! ("However, there was not a cloud in the sky at the time.") So clearly, you think someone (whether God or that man) decided to end the mocker's life, obviously because of the mocking that he did. You don't call that murder?
I could go into the reasons I have my doubts about this story, if you like. But you probably shouldn't worry your mind over them!
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It seems that a lot of folks are not bothered about whether a story like this one is actually true or not. (And yes, my belief is that this particular story is not true in all of its details. Most likely, it has been embellished a lot, and grew with the retellings. Not accusing you of anything, but the "man of God" has most likely done the embellishments. That's usually how it goes.)
As to whether this was murder, are you not implying that God indeed killed that mocker? Where did the lightning come from? The man of God himself? If so, it was a murder committed by that man of God. If it was from God, then God was the murderer. Was it a natural event (genuine lightning)? You went to some trouble to rule that out! ("However, there was not a cloud in the sky at the time.") So clearly, you think someone (whether God or that man) decided to end the mocker's life, obviously because of the mocking that he did. You don't call that murder?
I could go into the reasons I have my doubts about this story, if you like. But you probably shouldn't worry your mind over them!
Timmy...
It seems that you are having a major problem.
Murder??? God does not murder! Neither would a natural bolt of lightening be MURDER. Good grief. Don't you know what murder is? God is not a murderer. The devil is a murderer.
The definition of MURDER for all who does not understand it is, the UNLAWFUL taking of human life.
If someone mocked me and I killed him, would that be murder? Of course! But God can do this, just because He's God, is that it? Is there anything that's not "lawful" for him to do?
The devil? Whom has the devil murdered? God, according to the Bible, has killed (whether you want to call it murder or not, that's up to you) millions of people. All the firstborn of Egypt, e.g. Uzzah, for steadying the ark, e.g. And He ordered his armies to slaughter entire cities, including children and babies.
You don't have a problem with any of that? And I have a serious problem?
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If someone mocked me and I killed him, would that be murder? Of course! But God can do this, just because He's God, is that it? Is there anything that's not "lawful" for him to do?
The devil? Whom has the devil murdered? God, according to the Bible, has killed (whether you want to call it murder or not, that's up to you) millions of people. All the firstborn of Egypt, e.g. Uzzah, for steadying the ark, e.g. And He ordered his armies to slaughter entire cities, including children and babies.
You don't have a problem with any of that? And I have a serious problem?
God can do anything He wants too. He is the boss.
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If this really happened it would have been in every news paper and on every TV station in the country.
You have more confidence in the media that I do.
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Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
Ditto, the thing is the media doesn't side with JESUS., they delight in spreading news of a BAD nature, you know crimes, disasters, taxes, serial murderers, OR celebrity gossip, etc.etc.
I rarely ever watch t.v. news., nor read much about 'the world' news its mostly depressing.
No any GOOD NEWS having to do with our savior, is OURS to spread., and so we should.
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