Posted by blue on June 02, 1998 at 19:30:15:
In Reply to: The God of the Bible loves to kill posted by rpcman on June 02, 1998 at 13:31:10:
I have no right to kill anyone, as an individual. The state, however, has been granted the authority to administer justice, up to and including the use of death as a penalty for transgressions.
You are reading about judgment in the O.T., which is an attribute of a righteous God. Paul describes it in the following way:
"Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man soweth, that shall he reap." In the O.T. battles, it was time for their mocking of God to be over.