Subject: Why God killed boys for teasing Elisha |
Bible Note: Hi, MJH... Yes, we mightn't understand the full implications of the youths' mocking of Elijah. In fact, I'm sure that we don't. Elijah is about the only person still alive from that period of history, but he isn't accessible to question. Funny how we try to justify God by trying to ferret out some sort of extra fault in people He has chosen to judge. (Hidden under it all our sympathies toward the guilty exceed our sympathies for the righteous!) Every son of Adam only merits immediate and eternal death and damnation. That's all he merits. Absolutely nothing more! Furthermore, God's holiness and righteousness are not sullied by killing and damning -- rather His holiness and righteousness is perfectly upheld. Besides, as I pointed out, we are utterly remiss in judging God by His deeds -- something that, actually, only adds to our merit of death and damnation. Instead, everything that God does is perfectly right, holy, just, loving, etc. In fact, the very way we ask these questions shows our depravity. Bringing death to these young men brought a cessation to their sinning, and to the harm that they were bringing to those around them. God's mercy and love is clearly manifest in this act, isn't it? In Him, Doc |