My dilemma is this: as Christians, what are we to make of the present attitude of Israel vis a vis Palestinians, many of whom are Christians? I am puzzled by the blank check many Christians give to Israel. Is this biblical or ignorance of what is really happening in the Holy Land? Moorad
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From: John (Burgy) Burgeson [mailto:hoss_radbourne@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 1:01 PM
To: grayt@lamar.colostate.edu; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: cosmology & polygamy
Terry wrote: "What I was saying was that I don't have a problem
with what happened in the Old Testament. God was executing righteous
judgment against the Canaanites."
I appreciate your candidness about that, Terry, while at the same time I
have to say that I cannot fathom it. Not at all. I have seen one commentator
say that the god of the OT is a "dirty bully," and while I also have a
problem with that statement, it is also a fact that I simply cannot claim
that an edict to kill the children and rape the young girls (as a god
purportedly commanded Saul) can possibly be reconciled with the Father God
whom Jesus proclaimed.
Thought question. Tomorrow Billy Graham, the pope, and about every other
respected religious leader you want to include issues a press release that
they are proclaiming God's message and that the message is to nuke Iraq.
Some would "cheerfully" urge compliance with this, I know. After all, didn't
god once command just such an action?
I doubt very much if you would go along. But why not?
I suspect that were I able to time travel back to Saul's day, I'd advise him
NOT to follow god's command, even if it cost him the kingdom. I would tell
him that, IMHO, the message is not from the "real" God at all.
If this be heresy, then that's what it must be, I guess.
Cordially, to those who think differently,
Burgy
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