Moral analysis that distinguishes narration, command, approval, punishment, and attributed speech before applying a transparent ethical framework.
Moral analysis that distinguishes narration, command, approval, punishment, and attributed speech before applying a transparent ethical framework.
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Commands to kill entire peoples, including infants, raise a direct challenge to claims of perfect divine goodness. An ethical critique of 1 Samuel 15:3 and Deuteronomy 20:16–18.
God sends a plague that kills 70,000 people after David's census. Killing people for someone else's offense is an atrocity, even when the one responsible is called God.