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To: Forest Keeper; kosta50; Kolokotronis; jo kus; HarleyD; wmfights; blue-duncan

“Of course you are forced to cut things out. You can’t possibly reconcile much of the OT as written through the “lens” of the NT. How do you reconcile the following stories, each of which has God specifically killing or ordering execution? “

Are we now equating God’s ordaining physical death with ordaining them to hell? That is a logical as well as Biblical fallacy. We have never said that God does not use people’s sufferings or death according to His will and plan. We just don’t equate physical suffering and death with eternal damnation.

9,078 posted on 10/15/2007 7:24:10 AM PDT by MarkBsnr (V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.)

To: MarkBsnr; kosta50; Kolokotronis; jo kus; HarleyD; wmfights; blue-duncan; Dr. Eckleburg

FK: “Of course you are forced to cut things out. You can’t possibly reconcile much of the OT as written through the “lens” of the NT. How do you reconcile the following stories, each of which has God specifically killing or ordering execution? “

Are we now equating God’s ordaining physical death with ordaining them to hell? That is a logical as well as Biblical fallacy.

No, of course not. God ordains the physical death of all people, whether they are going to Heaven or hell. He ordains where they are going as a separate action. :)

We have never said that God does not use people’s sufferings or death according to His will and plan. We just don’t equate physical suffering and death with eternal damnation.

Does this mean that you accept the historical truth of that long list I posted about the OT? Did God really do all those things?

9,130 posted on 10/15/2007 7:26:19 PM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)

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