This is your original statementThis is tantamount of accusing God of evil that good may come.
My response is simply we can not hold God to mans standards..God can not do Evil..but He can and does do Justice!
Look, I didn't write the Bible. I supposed that what was written there were God's standards. Don't you think God would meet His own standards?
Hank
Several years ago I was a card-carrying Evangelistic Fundamentalist in the largest Church in the US. I led large groups of Church leaders in prayer; I was considered by many to be a lay pastor; I led a group of about 45 servants to the Lord to show others the Way; I was caught up in the wonderful feeling that I was completely correct in all that I thought because the Bible told me so.
Or was it because people that I trusted told me so.
I was already questioning the tenets that I adherred to when I started a Bible Study concerning a sentence by sentence breakdown of Gallatians.
I read every line to mean something different than anyone else in our group.
I really started to listen to what I was being told as 'Gospel'.
I now realize that I was a member of a cult that was harmng my personal relationship with God, the Creator.
I lost all my new friends....good
I gradually regained my old friends that I had driven away with my judgement of them and their values.
I am now desparately trying to regain my soul...yes, that's right, my soul.
Beware those filled with hate while draped in the robes of righteousness.
Now, I will call things as I see them. And I see hate and Religeous self-righteousness pulling this country down. I am too upset to be more erudite on this subject.
It still hurts too much.