I was talking to one of my profs today about God's righteous judgment and want to see if my thoughts on it are first Biblical and maintained by people here. We were talking about the problem texts were God says that He wants the Israelites to destroy the foreign nations and kill even the children. He took these as God's judgment upon the horrible nations. I asked if this applied to the holocaust; if we could view it as an act of God's judgment upon the unfaithful Jews. He didn't think so, and said that he didn't think all death needed to be viewed as as an act of judgment. But he couldn't tell me why, and vice versa I couldn't tell him why i thought it should have been; other than the fact that they had dethroned God from His throne, and we all, deserve this death. He didn't find that a viable option as he doesn't think a little four year old girl who gets raped by her uncle 'has that coming to her'. I said we should expect bad things to happen to us, as we don't deserve to have anything good to happen, and he wasn't too set on this idea.
But my main question is, does physical death= God's just judgment on mankind, if so, does it always? If not, why not? Why is it unfair of us to say God could ordain something like the holocaust and still be a good God? Isn't it all about His glory, not us? Is it wrong to say that the Jews like the Canaanites were coming under God's righteous judgment for surpressing the truth?
"This is a plain indication of God's righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering. For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who are afflict you, and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from Heaven with His mighty angels in flamming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus. Theses will pay the penatly of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who believe- for out testimony to you was believed." 2 Thess 1:5-10
But my main question is, does physical death= God's just judgment on mankind, if so, does it always? If not, why not? Why is it unfair of us to say God could ordain something like the holocaust and still be a good God? Isn't it all about His glory, not us? Is it wrong to say that the Jews like the Canaanites were coming under God's righteous judgment for surpressing the truth?
"This is a plain indication of God's righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering. For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who are afflict you, and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from Heaven with His mighty angels in flamming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus. Theses will pay the penatly of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who believe- for out testimony to you was believed." 2 Thess 1:5-10