the bible and all of the older and younger people in the church society will tell us all that god is a loving god and one that just wants us to be with him forever but there are some things that i have heard and even noticed that kind of contradict this thing.. how can he be "loving" if he plagues an entire society and nearly kills off a nation just to save one people. i think that if he really wanted to he could have just poofed them out of there.. killing off livestock, destroying their water supply, and all the other stuff is not what i can considered loving. you could have made a different decision with probably the same result but without as many casualties. and i have another problem of what he did in Egypt that one time. the whole death of the first born son. why the first born.. the most precious thing to someone is a child and why would you take that away from someone. you should have just killed off the pharaoh and been done with it. don't sacrifice the peaceful children of the city. with the children you have the opportunity to change the world, rather with the lost adults you are already gone.
Patty i think told us this story one day in Sunday school and it kind of pissed me off? she said something about people transporting the ark or something and that these people were carrying it but with something else so that they wouldn't directly touch it but i heard that it was about to fall on one side and this guy or girl tried to touch it to correct its position and secure its position. but god saw this and he struck him down in an instant. no second chances didn't even reason with this he just automatically kid this man because he tried to save the boat that was about to fall.
how is this god a loving god if he shows so much wrath towards that don't know him. if he really loved them he would have found a way a better way, this is a confusing area to think about.
God is also a just god. He is loving and just. To us that doesn't always make sense, but it is true. As for Pharaoh, God gave him many chances and he continually turned his back on God. If his people supported him, they were also turning their backs on God. God specifically used those plagues to show the Egyptians that their deities weren't in power. As a result, some of them joined the Israelites. By doing so, they would have also been spared. So it was a matter of who they supported, God or Pharaoh.
ReplyDeleteThe other one - They were moving it the wrong way, so if it would have been moved the right way by the right people, then it never would have happened. That still doesn't totally make sense to me, but I see that once again the guy in charge wasn't asking God about it and the people suffered.
Justice and love don't often make sense.