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This sounds like a problem with one's definition of "God" and not whether or not it's right for said "God" to "kill" people. Generally, the religious define God as master over life and death, and it's his job to decide when "it's your time to die."
I think that is a restrictive definition of God, but I see your point.
I didn't mean that description to be exclusive, but that aspect is generally one that religious people ascribe to their concept of the Divine... whether they are exclusively monotheistic or not!
I think it depends on what arrangement you made with god - if life is supposed to be for our benefit, and god cut it short before completion/before it did it's job, then god's betrayed that deal, even though it may very well be necessary as part of doing something else with an overall good intention - if so, it should be understandable.
What could the victims have been doing though that was so bad that they needed killing though? - how can genocide be the lesser of evils? Might the bible have been modified by the israelites/dodgy translator to give them an excuse?
If life is for god's benefit only (i.e. if the living provide sanctuary but are kept away from heaven in the process) - then god's killing is for your benefit+his loss - although again it might be a necessary part of doing something else.
This is a fairly thoughtful response, but there are other possibilities. Go to the original post and see what he had to say.
I see also now - it depends a little on whether said person wants to die/live at any given moment of time regardless of what was arranged before life - i suppose that needs to be respected - but weighed up against everything else because it might force a change in his plan a little for one of us to die at a different time. In our realm, i don't think our choices can be fully controlled (hence sin), so there has to be some degree of leeway in the plan anyway
Both of the above responses hit at some likely positions that some people might take. The BLOG I took the post from offers some plausible answers, and there are (at this time) 38 responses to it you might find interesting.
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