I think the answer is, He'd better have some really good ID and the message should be retransmitted to make sure there wasn't a garble.
We can parse out the need for collateral damage, unintended (even if known to be probable) "effects" of an action. I think arguments can be made without recourse to special revelation that some, even most, aerial bombing is licit in warfare (in a just war, etc. etc.) AND I think we can do a protracted moral analysis (as thought it were necessary) that blowing up the WTC or one's (as Rush says" "Fruit of Kabooms" (Laughing hysterically) to show that that is wrong. Unjust war, unlikely to bring about desired result, targetting innocent non-combatants, blah blah.
Of course My glib take on ONE ASPECT of the OT is that it is God's pedagogy: "I will now clobber Egypt. DO I have your atTENtion? Hold your staff and watch this!" And then He says, "Now that I have your attention, you need to know that I love the widow, orphan, poor, soujourner within your gates," and so forth.
I think the answer is, He'd better have some really good ID and the message should be retransmitted to make sure there wasn't a garble.
Yeah, no argument from me at all.
Of course My glib take on ONE ASPECT of the OT is that it is God's pedagogy: "I will now clobber Egypt. DO I have your atTENtion? Hold your staff and watch this!" And then He says, "Now that I have your attention, you need to know that I love the widow, orphan, poor, soujourner within your gates," and so forth.
LOL! It's pretty funny when you put it that way. But I suppose part of what we are to take from that is just how serious God is when He says something. Nobody wanted God's wrath, etc. Do good or good-bye, Chicago style. I was just reading in Leviticus where "love your neighbor" is side by side with being put to death for having sex with all sorts of people and things. Holy - good. Sin - bad, beddy beddy bad.