Beneficial to long term humanity? Is God a socialist? Willing to sacrifice the lives of the few, to the needs of the many? And what of the individuals in question? Doesn't killing them deprive them of any opportunity to repent? That hardly seems like the action of a loving God.
And what about the suggestion on the part of most Christians, that overt acceptance of Jesus Christ is a requirement for entering the kingdom of heaven? Does this mean that someone unlucky enough to have been born a Yak-herder in the backwaters of Tibet, never having heard of Jesus, will be slow-roasted on a lake of fire for all eternity, because he never had the opportunity to even hear of Jesus, much less accept him?
What kind of cosmic practical joke would that be?
There sure are a lot of things that don't make any sense about this stuff.
You are an intelligent person, but you often post as someone who would rather not have knowledge. There is a way to pose a question that shows you desire knowledge, and a way to pose the question that shows you want to put someone off guard.
There sure are a lot of things that don't make any sense about this stuff.
I submit that this is an example of the latter.
Every Christian struggles with G-d's decision to destroy people as He did a few times in the Old Testament. There is an answer, but it is not short or easy.
Do you really want to know what the answer is?
Shalom.