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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] This is a theological problem that people much wiser than myself have been struggling with for ages. How do you reconcile Jesus' "Suffer the little children to come unto me" to the OT's "Only if they don't call anyone names"? To my way of thinking, God of the Old Testament was essentially a child. His toy humans misbehave, so he slaughters them all. A city or two doesn't do what he wants, he has them burned to a crisp. A group of people is living where he wants the Israelites to be, so he orders them all killed. In the Old Testament, human life is exceedingly cheap. To make a crude analogy, this is the same as catching your child writing on the wall and chopping their arm off for it. Even if I had spent the whole day telling my child "Don't write on the wall or you'll be in trouble" I don't think I'd resort to maiming or killing him or her. What does this all mean? Again, people have been arguing that point for a long long time. The idea that God can do anything God wants is common, as Omega indicates. But this always reminds me of a quote from Richard Nixon during Watergate. "When the President does it, that means it isn't illegal." I reject that concept. Yes, I'm a godless heathen. But I think that there are absolute rights and wrongs in this universe, and they apply to every thinking being in it. Even God. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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