A moral God?
Reverend G. R. Gaudreau errancy@infidels.org
Mon, 31 May 1999 12:40:15 -0400 (00928186815, 000901beab84$43900fa0$bd8c6395@grgaud)
Matthew Bell
Your point 1. is only valid if you establish that the babies were put
to death for the sins of their fathers and not for their own sinful
condition in Adam.
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RevGaud
1Sam 15:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I REMEMBER THAT WHICH AMALEK
DID TO ISRAEL, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up
from Egypt.
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. (Emphasis mine)
The reason for their slaughter is clearly stated and it isn't original
sin, it was revenge for what Amalek did to Israel some 400 years
before.
Reverend G. R. Gaudreau
grgaud@bigfoot.com
http://campus.fortunecity.com/defiant/666/