Originally posted by rwingett
Death, in and of itself, is an amoral occurance. It happens to everyone eventually. Heart attacks and the like have no moral character to them in a naturalistic world. But if there is a god, then that might not necessarily be the case. Killing an individual is always wrong, except in cases of self-defense and other special circumstances. Genocide is always wrong no matter what the circumstances.
So if God is real death may not be amoral, but if God is not real it
is amoral?
Okay, so God simply isn't going to win no matter what here with you
I take it. 🙂
My point is with God as scripture teachs there is a time for all of us to
die, and after that the judgment.
Hebrews 9:27-28
And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
Since God both gives and takes away all things from us, and since all
things come from God even our breath, His taking it away is simply the
way it is as when He gives. That is not the case with man, when a man
takes it upon himself to murder there is nothing but injustice taking
place, be it Genocide or the murder of just one person. With God all
life comes from him and God sets that all will die at some time having
God decree a group of people die is no different than when one dies.
Now that is not the same thing as killing in God's name, I'm quite sure
that there has been more of that done than God saying do it.
Kelly