A moral God?
Dave Gaban errancy@infidels.org
Tue, 01 Jun 1999 02:15:46 -0700 (00928246546, 3753A4C2.5945@slip.net)
Matthew Bell wrote:
>
> > Matthew Bell
> > If you accept that killing in war by the defensive/offended party is
> > justified and lawful then you have to consider whether the acts
> > against Amalek were such, i.e. acts of war by the defensive party
> > (Amalek first attacked Israel), and therefore justified and lawful
> > killings.
> >
> > Revgaud
> > Acts of defense? Defense against what? Something Amalek did 400
> > before? Read verse two of 1Sam 15 Matt:
> >
> > 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to
> > Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from
> > Egypt.
> > 3 Now go and smite Amalek...
> >
> > That wasn't a defensve war, it was a retaliatory strike which included
> > infant and suckling who had committed no wrong against Israel. THIS is
> > your just god?
>
> Matthew Bell
> Yes, that is my just God, whose judgement is as strong as His love.
>
Dave G.
Matt, do you concede this was just a retaliation for something that
occurred 400 years prior?
Why is this different than the Serbs killing the ethnic Albanians
for past attrocities?