Bible Question:
How a Loving and just God commanded such things? 1Sa 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. We can maybe assume that amalek was very evil person, how about the infants? Eze 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. Why the must kill the infants? they unskilfull about righteousness. Heb 5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. God bless, |
Bible Answer: Hi Johnny, I am concerned and saddened somewhat by the situation that initiated your question here. I am hoping that your faith in a loving God is still intact. In looking at your references, I can see the connection between them, but more in way of contrast than comparison. 1 Samuel 15, Saul did not carry out God's commands. He spared the best of the sheep and oxen. He didn't spare the children as you would have, but he did listen to the voices of the people and spared some sheep and oxen (to be sacrificed, he said, to the Lord their God). But the question for the chapter is "Has the Lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the Lord?" 1 Sam 15:22b, "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams." The ways of the Lord in contrast to our ways is the subject of Ezekiel 18. You say, "The way of the Lord is not right." Yet the Lord God had already said that He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather wants to see him turn from his wicked ways. Ezekiel 18:29, "But the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not right.' Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?" I think that it is time to be a good teacher and not question the Lord and His holiness and His ways. Ezekiel was a teacher of the elders who sat before him. Ezekiel 20:2, "And the word of the Lord came to me saying, 3 "Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Do you come to inquire of Me? As I live," declares the Lord God, "I will not be inquired of by you."" Hebrews 5 talks of our being teachers. Before that it talks of Jesus being obedient to the things which were to be acted on and endured. Hebrews 5:8, NKJ, "though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek." Jesus did all the things that pleased the Father. This loving God sent His Son to die for our sins. His ways are the ways of love. From the heart, Ray |