If God is good why do we fear him?

[I'mHigh]

Bruh, he asked a theological question about Christianity. I gave him an answer based on the only source available for complete Christian doctrine. If he asks about Christian theology it would make sense to refer to that source. For the verse you asked about, in scripture God did this for the purpose of Israel prospering as a nation. Having slaves was having more propert which made you richer. He did not want them taking slaves from their own brethren. As I stated before, this is what the BIBLE says and what I believe but it is not undisputed historical fact nor should it be seen in that way if you do not CHOOSE to become a Christian.

So what you're saying is your God said it was okay to have slaves. Oh, ok.

 

[valet]

If the Devil is bad, then why does he punish people who sin?

Someone explain please?

Would you say the same thing about Black mamas. Black mamas put fear in thier kids and punish them? Are they bad because of that?

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

Would you say the same thing about Black mamas. Black mamas put fear in thier kids and punish them? Are they bad because of that?

 

[The Real]

Would you say the same thing about Black mamas. Black mamas put fear in thier kids and punish them? Are they bad because of that?

 

[Black Hans]

fear = respect. That's Olde English, TS

 

[cheek100]

FOH

 

[A Friend of The People]

Should we expect human minds to understand the reasoning of God?

 

[livindajetlife]

Would you say the same thing about Black mamas. Black mamas put fear in thier kids and punish them? Are they bad because of that?

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

 

[ThaBoyBam]

fear = respect. That's Olde English, TS

Had to wait till the last page for someone to say this

 

[Uncle Trill]

"I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children." (Leviticus 26:22)

"Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourself every girl who has never slept with a man." (Numbers 31:17-18)

"The Lord commands: "... slay old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women" (Ezechial 9:4-6)

"When the Lord delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the males .... As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves." (Deuteronomy 20:13-14)

"You will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you." (Deuteronomy 28:53)

"The Lord said to Joshua [...] 'you are to hamstring their horses.' " (Exceedingly cruel.) (Joshua 11:6)

"... Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword and; also the women and little ones.... every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall utterly destroy." (Judges 21:10-12)

"This is what the Lord says: Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass .... And Saul ... utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword." (1 Samuel 15:3,7-8)

"The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their women with child ripped open." (Hosea 13:16)

"A curse on him who is lax in doing the LORD's work!
A curse on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed!" (Jeremiah 48:10)

If "God did not create evil" then what of the following?

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Exodus 32:14
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

Joshua 23:15
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things.

Judges 9:23
Then God sent an evil spirit

1 Samuel 16:14
But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

2 Samuel 12:11
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house

1 Kings 9:9
...therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.

1 Kings 14:10
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam

2 Kings 6:33 ...Behold, this evil is of the LORD;

2 Kings 21:12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

2 Kings 22:16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place

2 Chronicles 34:24 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof...

Nehemiah 13:18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city?

Jeremiah 4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people

Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them

Jeremiah 25:29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil

Jeremiah 35:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them:

Jeremiah 44:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah

Jeremiah 45:5 ...behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD:

Jeremiah 49:37 ...I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:

Micah 1:12 .... evil came down from the LORD

Micah 2:3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil
“Exodus 22:29-30 "You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The first-born of your sons you shall give to me. You shall do likewise with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.”

Ezekiel 20:25-26 Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not have life; and I defiled them through their very gifts in making them offer by fire all their first-born, that I might horrify them; I did it that they might know that I am the LORD.”

 

[Marvel]

Deuteronomy 32

39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

Spoken like a true BOSS. He is undefeated

 

[100 others]

The nikka sits back wit his sandals up, watching kids in african countries starve, in large number, mind you.

I cant pray to a nikka that allows that.

What have those kids done to deserve such fate?

 

[acri1]

The nikka sits back wit his sandals up, watching kids in african countries starve, in large number, mind you.

I cant pray to a nikka that allows that.

What have those kids done to deserve such fate?

Spoiler

But seriously...shyt is depressing.

 

[BigE's Taper Fade]

The nikka sits back wit his sandals up, watching kids in african countries starve, in large number, mind you.

I cant pray to a nikka that allows that.

What have those kids done to deserve such fate?

BUT YOU PAY TAXES TO A GOVERNMENT THAT ACTIVELY PROMOTES IT