Bill Maher, comedian and political commentator, claimed recently that
the Bible is filled with indefensible things, stating that “the God in
the Old Testament is a psychotic mass murderer” (“Real Time with Bill
Maher,” July 26, 2013). Those are the sentiments of a law breaker. An
unrepentant rapist or thief or even a red-light
runner doesn’t like the law and doesn’t think law enforcers are fair.
The God of the Bible (Jesus said that He and Jehovah God are one) is the
most compassionate Being in the universe. He is love and He is the
source of all love. But He is also a God of law and order. He is holy
and just. He is a Judge as well as a Savior. As the Creator, He owns
man and has the right to tell man how to live. He Himself came into this
world in the form of His Son and took our just punishment upon Himself.
Jesus, the Son of God, died for His enemies, and as He was suffering
unjustly on the cross He prayed, “Father, forgive them for they know not
what they do.” Are those the words of a “psychotic mass murderer”? In
the Old Testament, God waited 400 years before destroying the Canaanites
(Genesis 15:13-16). Those nations could have repented like Nineveh did
and God, in His grace, would have forgiven them (Jonah 3:5-10). When the
destruction came it was an act of justice. Just like the rapist or
child murderer who suffers the vengeance of man’s law, the Canaanites
destroyed themselves by their brazen rebellion to God’s moral laws,
which are written in man’s very conscience (Romans 2:14-15). They
brought God’s judgment upon themselves by their idolatry, fornication,
bestiality, incest, and other high crimes against a holy God (Leviticus
18:1-3, 19-25). They even burned their children to death (Deuteronomy
12:31). It is not morally wrong for a holy, law-giving God to punish
those who willfully, flagrantly, and unrepentantly break His laws. When
Maher and his liberal friends support the killing of unborn children in
the womb, that is fine, but when God punishes lawbreakers, He is a
monster in their eyes. What hypocrisy! I’m glad to say that God doesn’t
answer to Bill Maher or any other man.
Rev. David Cloud
PRAISE GOD HE ANSWERS TO NO ONE, NOT EVEN THE ACLU, PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY, OR ANY ATHEIST!! THEY'RE THE ONES WHO ANSWER TO HIM!!!
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