Well I posted some comments I had about the situation in the middle east inspired by a quote I read from Friedrich Nietzsche which goes like this, "he who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." That post attracted some comments written by "Anonymous". Although I know who "Anonymous" is, she wants to remain "Anonymous." This was the exchange we had.
Anonymous wrote, "This post of yours came just in sync :) My friend posed me this question at the beginning of this week: " If God writes in 1 of His laws to not commit murder, why did He justify wars against Israel's enemies?"Maybe you might want to help me to answer this question of his? "
I replied, "Oh. Tough one. Well I am not going to comment on why God justify wars against anybody. Maybe He did, maybe He did not but he is God is has His reasons. But the wars of Israel are not the only ones where the name of God is involved in. Christians in the crusades used it to justify their war. The terrorists today are using it. Perhaps we are misusing the name of God. If that is the case, then Israel is obviously not the only culprits. So perhaps we should not judge what God is doing. We can't even understand the half of His divine purpose. Just have faith that it will work out for good ultimately. By the way, who are you?"
To which Anonymous replied, "I agree with you that God has His ways but I think my friend was talking more about the territory given to Israel and the land He promised to their forefathers to conquer. What about that? Why did God ask them to claim the land and pronounce war in that sense?oh btw forgot to add my identity so I'll leave it as anonymous :p You should know..... "
I think it is a good exchange, which is why I brought it forward to this post. I like to reply to the above comment by saying that
I don't know.
God and God only can give you an answer to that question because He is the only one with the divine perspective. There are a lot of injustices in the world, some of which I dare say are allowed to happen by God Himself, read my post on Job. I don't pretend to have an answer to all the injustices of this world whether done by ancient Israel or by those who are living now. But I do have faith that everything will be made right in the end. God is a good and great God not because the Bible says He is, but because He has PROVEN Himself to me that He is good and great. So live your life in His will and leave the universe running to Him.
By the way, anybody else got any other comments, I will be happy to hear them.
PS. There is no need to be so mysterious Anonymous. Please sign in next time. Ha! Ha! Ha!
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Wah..thanks for ENLIGHTENING me but I know that too! :p That wasn't the answer I was looking for though. Oh well..nvm, just wanted to see what you had to say.
By the way, how come you're so free to actually blog on a weekday?
What exhange did we have? Are you sure you know who I am? I'm your secret admirer.....
Answer? I was not providing one. and I was talking about the exchange of comments. And I am flattered, if I have a secret admirer it sure would not be you... hahaha
You're sure you know who I am?
Hmm...well not wanting to get answers from you. Just wanted to hear something else other than that. So boring....sigh
Well there isn't anything else
Here's what my friend got from "someone", the answer to his question:
"Christ says that murder is killing unnecessarily but war is when people attack to eliminate evil"
Now that is a controversial statement there are lots of way of smiting evil. War is not necessary to do it, so its still very open ended, why God does this and not that. It never justifies anything. One thing I learnt in history is to NEVER justify war.
Well well, guess who that "someone" is? I laughed when I received my friend's SMS and not to say when he told "who" said this. I dunno what to say....
who are you talking about???
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