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1 | How is this justified? | Ps 115:3 | Total Blonde | 170589 | ||
God is supposed to be an all loving God then why did he order so many people killed in the Old Testament? He seemed to get angry very easily. Jesus told us to turn the other cheek with people but God sent the Isrealites out on "Holy Wars" to slaughter whole cities, how do you justify that? Especially to a friend who is questioning your faith? Please help, I really need someones opinion on this. | ||||||
2 | How is this justified? | Ps 115:3 | BradK | 170590 | ||
Hi total blonde, This is a fairly common question, and I think one of the challenges is that we tend to look at it from our perpective rather than God's. (Rom. 9:20) This issue deals predominantly wiht the Sovereingty of God. The late A.W. Pink wrote this: "THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD The sovereignty of God may be defined as the exercise of His supremacy. Being infinitely elevated above the highest creature, He is the Most High, Lord of heaven and earth. Subject to none, influenced by none, absolutely independent; God does as He pleases, only as He pleases always as He pleases. None can thwart Him, none can hinder Him. So His own Word expressly declares: "My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure" (Isa. 46:10); "He doeth according to His will in the army of heaven, and the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay His hand" (Dan. 4:35). Divine sovereignty means that God is God in fact, as well as in name, that He is on the Throne of the universe, directing all things, working all things "after the counsel of His own will" (Eph. 1:11). Rightly did the late Mr. Spurgeon say in his sermon on Matthew 20:15: There is no attribute more comforting to His children than that of God’s Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe trials, they believe that Sovereignty has ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all. There is nothing for which the children ought more earnestly to contend than the doctrine of their Master over all creation—the Kingship of God over all the works of His own hands—the Throne of God and His right to sit upon that Throne. On the other hand, there is no doctrine more hated by worldings, no truth of which they have made such a football, as the great, stupendous, but yet most certain doctrine of the Sovereignty of the infinite Jehovah. Men will allow God to be everywhere except on His throne. They will allow Him to be in His workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow His bounties. They will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of heaven, or rule the waves of the ever-moving ocean; but when God ascends His throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth, and we proclaim an enthroned God, and His right to do as He wills with His own, to dispose of His creatures as He thinks well, without consulting them in the matter; then it is that we are hissed and execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on His throne is not the God they love. But it is God upon the throne that we love to preach. It is God upon His throne whom we trust." I hope this helps, BradK |
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3 | How is this justified? | Ps 115:3 | Total Blonde | 170601 | ||
Thanks to the two people who answered my question. It helped:) | ||||||