On a page, I frequent someone asked why people could worship a God who kills so many people. I answered…
An artist created 100 ceramic figurines. He placed the on a shelf to admire them, but someone came along and bumped the shelf and they all fell on the hard floor. Some were cracked; some were broken; some were shattered. Pulling the broom and trash can up the artist paused and decided that he might be able to restore some of them. He placed them back on the shelf, then studied them. Those he knew he could restore he lifted and placed on the shelf above. Those whose flaws prevented them from being restored he placed on the shelf below. As he studied them, one by one, he would pick one up and place it either above or below. Some quite broken he placed above because he saw that the breaks were repairable. Some hardly broken at all he placed below because he saw that while the breaks were few, they were still unrepairable.
When you claim God is a “mass murderer” for killing people in the flood you forget He not only made all of us He also decided when, where and how each of us die. He is, in effect, responsible for each and every death of everyone. But then He made us, so He has that right. Your argument basically says the broken ceramic piece has some sort of valid, moral opinion regarding when it is taken off the shelf and moved. (For if we have immortal souls, then death is not our end, but just a repositioning of that immortal soul.) Your objection is laughable were it not so pathetically sad. He made you; you became flawed, and as a result, He has every right to dispose of you in any way He chooses. He’s under no obligation to repair you, but He has chosen to entertain that option. True justice means we all die and go to hell. Mercy and grace have given us the chance to avoid that. Yet you seem to think you have the right to define “justice” so that it benefits you in complete disregard to anyone else, specifically God.
