MB: Certainly God has ordained the deaths of many folks. Doubtless He continues. What does that have to do with their Afterlife?
FK: Ok good. I’m glad you recognize that, even to this extent. I don’t say this fact has any connection to their afterlife. I say God ordains the physical deaths of all people, saved and lost alike.
There are many who don’t recognize it. There is a consistent theme trying to infer that because God has ordained a person or a people to be physically killed, then that somehow reflects on their eternal reward or punishment.
OK, I see what you're saying now, and I wasn't thinking of that before. Are you saying that, for example, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah can't be true because God killed them for their sins? My position would be that the story IS true for the reasons given in the Bible. They were killed for their sins. Of course, it is also true that God does not kill always for the direct commission of sin. David survived his adultery and murder and lived on. Moses committed what I humanly think of as a "small" sin and lived on, yet Uzzah was killed instantly just for trying to keep the ark from falling. I don't think there's any formula to it. God's will is God's will.