Splendid! Capital!
Submitted by F.O.D. on July 13 1999 at 15:07:25
In reply to While I appreciate the sentiment Submitted by Triple Q on July 10 1999 at 20:09:41
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You may be right about failing to be callous if it's someone real close to me. The only who've died in my life have been old people, my grandfather and others, so it was sort of expected, even a relief on some ways. Except for two schoolmates, who died in the same year when I was 11. I was upset enough about that. The immediate example I was thinking of was with my YF right now. I'm angry with him, because I was wanting to have him visit me over the summer, but has not being doing much to prepare (getting travel documents organised and so on). And then just last week I learnt he had completely left town and gone somewhere. Rather than getting to it and doing what needs to be done (as I see it). Actually it was his mother who had carted him off to mourn the death of the father of a friend of hers (he had been very sick for a long time). All I could see was my YF not doing the right thing by me, rather than sympathising with the people whose father had died. And he still hasn't got it done, either, so he'll just have to not come, nothing more to be done about it. OK, theology. I find it contradictory that you do support captial punishment, but oppose God making use of it. The thing about the Canaanites, they were accepting the fair consequences for their treason against God. That's all "sin" and "wickedness" is - treason. For which the penalty is "off with his head". Why do you call it murder? Is it murder when a firing squad puts a criminal to death? How is captial punishment undertaken? Lethal injection, electric chair, fire from heaven, slaying by the hands of the Israelites. It's all the same to the one being put to death. Is it unfair that only the Canaanites got done in, while other nations got off scott free? But other nations too meet their judgement. Babylon is no more. Egypt has passed away. Rome has fallen. And today we still await the final judgement of all people. Is it unfair that the whole nation got wiped out, without regard to the innocence of individuals? But that is a fallacy. When Jericho was taken, the prostitute Rahab shown her faithfulness, and was saved from the destruction. The individuals answer for their own actions, and have their own choice to make of whether or not to follow God. Is it unfair that Israel left Canaan, to live 400 years in Egypt, bringing no light of God to that people? But again, people answer for their own actions. And it was not as if God were not known to them. Jethro, Moses' father-in-law from the desert of Sinai, was a priest of God. The nation of Edom was Israel's brother, Moab and Ammon were Abraham's relatives. When Hitler rose to power, did all godly people have the right to take up arms against him. Triple Q, that is exactly what they did! F.O.D. 
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