Six times God killed people in the Bible
God killed way more people than Satan ever did. According to John Piper, God is still pretty hands-on at killing people today. But virtually all Christian denominations claim that God is morally perfect and without sin. Therefore, any action performed by God are by definition moral, and are not a sin. Meaning, it was theoretically moral for God to perform the following acts (and this list is not exhaustive): 1. God murders everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah, then turns a lady to salt (Genesis 18-19) Apparently everyone in the cities were evil, even the children and animals. After God destroyed the cities, he turned Lot's wife to salt for the sin of...curiosity? 2. God kills all Egyptian firstborn sons during Passover ( Exodus 11-12) The final plague against the Pharaoh is the elimination of the firstborn son of every living thing--including cattle. Presumably these firstborns didn't even have anything to do with the conflict between Pharaoh and Moses. The crazy part of
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