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Campus Question – Genocide
Genocide
Student – “How can you worship a God who had entire nations killed?”
Answer – “There are things I don’t understand fully. But here is a mantra I often use: 1) “I don’t know. 2) “I’m not God” 3) “Deal with it”
Student – “Deal with it? How?”
Answer: While there are many things I don’t know, I deal with this topic partially by focusing on what I do know. What do you know about those nations? (His response was, “Nothing”). Those nations practiced infant sacrifice. They would burn babies in worship to their false gods. Is sacrificing babies a good thing? ( Head shakes, “No”). If you saw a family abusing a child, would you want to stop it? (Head shakes, “Yes”). So when God destroyed nations, he was destroying them because they practiced child sacrifices (his head shook saying he understood)”.
Addendum – What this answer does is find common ground. It is not a complete answer, but then again, “I don’t know. I’m not God. Deal with it”
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