Kill the Babies!!!

Morality Standards

A picture is painted of a potter fashioning clay to his liking. And this animated picture brings life to the clay, with the clay protesting the Potters's design. This surprised Potter asks

"Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?" Jeremiah 18:5 NIV

It seems completely reasonable and moral that the Potter is allowed to shape the clay to his design and liking. Conversely it is unreasonable and immoral for the clay to protest the Potter's design.

 "You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!" Isaiah 29:16 NIV

And yet, we continue in our unreasonability and turn things upside down. Why does mere clay (or humankind), protest the Potter (or God) on morality. There is no rational position we can take, that justifies our objections. And it is funny that our objections always start with 

"If there were a God, He would not have ordered....

Destruction of all living things in the land of Cannan (Kill the Babies!!!)

Kill the Babies with what God commanded. However when we start our statment with "if", we are already making assumptions. Assumptions are a poor foundation to make a case for the existence of God. What are we look at, in this context?

The people of Cannan were practicing evil for around 400 years. The blood of the victims of evil cried out for vengence. God waited to see if there was anyone who would take charge and deliver a system of justice. However time ran out, and the children born after this wait period, perished for their forefathers sins.

The Jews and Christians today, are challenged today on how this instruction fits the overall nature of God and subsequently His existence. The assumption is that a good moral God should not kill babies. Our imagination of God is a poor way to explain the inexistence of God. Instead, find out who God is....

I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations (Exodus 20:5)

Our sin will affect our children (babies) who may not have anything to do with our actions/sin. They are in danger of being whipped out. But a good God made provisions for sin to be paid for through Jesus Christ. And further more, in His goodness, He has allowed for us to choose or reject his goodness.  

Hence this passage is...

  • NOT an explaination of existence of God. 
  • NOT an explaination of goodness of God. 
  • NOT for Christians or Jews to commit genocide. 
Instead, this passage is for our own evaluation... to evaluate whether we will save or kill our babies (our future geneartions).... to evaluate whether we will be good or evil. Our actions of today will determine the fate of our children.  

You are gods.... (Psalm 82:6)

We may have reasons to object to God's morality/rules if we were truly the Potter (God). We could then shape and create our own world (clay) and implement our moral rules. In fact God will even give up being God, if we had the strength to do so.

Then even I would praise you, for your own strength would save you. Job 40:14 NLT

However, we cannot create our own world. We are still clay, living in God's world. We are not in a position to define morality, much less protest God's morality. We have no way out other than to live by His morality/rules. If we don't we will  

... will die like mere mortals (Psalm 82:7) and to dust you will return (Genesis 3:19) ... to our original clay state ... in the silence of death along with our innocent babies!!!

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