If life is so worthless that can be arbitrarily used by God to set an example, or to make room to a group of people he sets as chosen ones, what is the point of living, anyhow?
And why is killing babies ok for God and not for us? Because if it is such a good thing for the baby to be killed while he hasn't had time to have sinned, it should always be done. Still, God forbid it.
How can we trust a judge that sets himself so high over humans that doesn't have to obey his own laws? How can he love us when he sets himself at a higher level than us? Love between equals matters. Love from a person to their pets isn't so relevant.
With a being like that in Heaven, it really doesn't look like Heaven anymore.
There is a famous Rabbi named
Ra
Mba
M (an acronym for Rabbi Moses ben Maimon). He once said that God does not have human-like feelings, but his actions make us think that he has these human-like feelings.
I believe this is completely true, and I will give my own opinions on it later. Anyway, by this meant that God is not compassionate, God is not cruel, God is not loving, God is not spiteful. God just does things that seem like it.
But in reality, God has none of these attributes.
This means that we cannot say that God loves anyone, just that God does
not not-love someone.
Thus, in my opinion, God does not "feel" (that's not the right word, but it's the best I could come up with) anything when "ordering" the deaths of babies, or the invasion of nations. He just does it, and those actions have no feelings behind them. They just are.
Now in reference to your post, jotabe, I said this whole thing because I say that God does not love
anybody. He just does actions that sometimes are good for one person/people, and/or bad for another person/people.
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Now for my opinion, I will take it a bit farther. and say that God has none of those feelings. Rambam said that he does not have any human-like feelings, but he has God-like feelings, just we are so simple that would could not understand them.
I say that God has
no feelings. I believe that God is the force of nature. God, or I will now call him Nature, has "random" actions, that are just that, random. Nothing is meant to harm anybody, but at the same time, nothing is meant to help anybody.
They just happen.
Anyway, there's my two ce - no, it's more like... my $513.67.
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