These scriptures are quoted often by anti-God people...atheists, if you will. And it only proves their lack of acquaintance with Him. These arguments simply exemplify the lengths people will go to justify their sins and to point an accusing finger any direction than toward themselves.

But instead of going into the arguments of "why" God did/ordered these things, I'd like to ask a simple question.

"Why do you believe a woman has "rights to her body" but don't believe the Creator of the Universe has rights to His creation/creatures?

Say you created a sculpture and decided later it didn't meet your standard of sculptures, would you have a right to destroy it? What if someone criticized you for destroying your "creation"? Would they have the right to say that you were wrong for destroying your own creation?

A woman doesn't have a right to kill her unborn anymore than she has the right to take the life of her 2-year old or even her own life because it is NOT her creation. She AND her unborn child are creations of God. Her life and her child is a gift from God. If she doesn't want the gift, she has the right to give it away, but she does not have the right to kill it. Man's law says she does, but man's law is WRONG. That's what's wrong with the world, by the way. We discarded God's laws and replaced them with our own. We've dethroned Him and set ourselves on the throne..in effect, made ourselves our own God. Do we have the power to save our lives?

When you have the wild thought that God could be wrong or made a mistake, just remember, HE is the Creator and you are His creation. Think "Potter" and "clay".

*The daughter of Jephthah - It is really astonishing, that the general stream of commentators, should take it for granted, that Jephthah murdered his daughter! But, says Mr. Henry, "We do not find any law, usage or custom, in all the Old Testament, which doth in the least intimate, that a single life was any branch or article of religion." And do we find any law, usage or custom there, which doth in the least intimate, that cutting the throat of an only child, was any branch or article of religion? If only a dog had met Jephthah, would he have offered up that for a burnt - offering? No: because God had expressly forbidden this. And had he not expressly forbidden murder? But Mr. Poole thinks the story of Agamemnon's offering up Iphigenia took its rise from this. Probably it did. But then let it be observed, Iphigenia was not murdered. Tradition said, that Diana sent an hind in her stead, and took the maid to live in the woods with her. Source

I think its safe to say that interpretations of the Bible should be left to those who are learned AND acquainted with its Author, not fools who say in their heart, "There is no God".

NOW...why are we discussing the "evils of God" when the thread is about a truly evil man who kills babies every day in the womb and out? I believe the thread's topic is about people who are breaking man's law, namely George Tiller. I have to wonder about your inability to see the evil in George Tiller, but (think you) clearly perceive God's evil. "George isn't evil because he operates in 'man's law' ".

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." This includes the unborn AND disabled.

Oh Dear said: "Jesus never even called the woman caught in adultery a sinner. He only said, 'I don't condemn ya...go and sin no more.' "

So, do you believe it's okay to commit adultery, now? Or just that He forgave her with an admonition not to do it, again?

If Jesus hadn't "judged" her, why would He say He didn't condemn her? Even to say that, He had to judge her. Otherwise, there would be nothing to say, would there?

Do I believe its okay to commit adultery? With the revelation of salvation, man can begin to live out not his own life, but the life of Christ. Life lived with the fullness of God.
But that life doesn't get lived so very much at all wondering where anyone stands with Him, even wondering where I stand with him.

Look at Him...holiness is not a personal achievement. What you or I or anyone else okays is of no value when you look at Him.

When I look at Jesus, I see a man that said he did not come to judge the world but to save it. I see a man that had the greatest love in that he laid down his life for his friends.

I hear a message spoken regarding the Law: Love God with all you are, all you got and love everyone else as much as you love yourself.

Can anyone commit adultery and be resonating that message?

There is something better than looking at what not to do, and that is to be looking at the one who has done all things impeccably.

OD

WOW, great post brother.

Hunker down, you two...

OD

P.S. I am gonna take a wild guess that Observer is female like me...I would not post my gender either, but with my picture showing I have long hair, I would be so offended if someone thought I was some hippie guy!

harrumph

and what's wrong wrong with long hair hippie guys?

Absolutely nothing Tristan...except I am woman and want to be thought of as one. And I am afraid if I did not have my gender revealed but had my picture up, someone might mistake me for a boy.


OD

That could very well be, but if I was a bettin man, I'd put my money on male. Brother, Sister, either way, it was a great post.

The problem with the bible is people take it as fact or the true word of God. No one can know this with any amount of certainly (remember, that is why faith is required and not something else with more weight in the real world).

The same people that don't trust modern day news are often the same people that are willing to base their whole spiritual and moral lives around something that was written by man a very long time ago (when the world was a very different place).

Thanks for the compliment, Preacherman. It's appreciated. Check out your private messages.