re: Help me determine some Objective Truth

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Like any parent, he punishes rebellious children.

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What about punishing innocent babies for the sins of their parents? Like in 2 Samuel 12. God allows Bathsheba’s and David’s baby to be born, but then makes the baby sick, torturing the poor child for 7 days, and then kills the baby, specifically as punishment for David stealing Uriah’s wife and sending him to be purposely killed.

Really think about what you wrote.

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Like any parent, he punishes rebellious children

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No, God doesn’t punish children like a parent would. He unjustly punishes children for the sins of their fathers. He commands rebellious children to be stoned to death. God’s punishment is unlike the punishment dealt by any parent I know.

Deuteronomy 21:

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18“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, 20and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

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