God's Right To Kill ?

[modeller]

I was talking to a group of theists and I asked them how they could justify the killing of thousands of innocent new born babies in Sodom and Gommorrah.

Their answer was God's laws are never to be broken. Their parents had sinned and the punishment was meted out to them and their descendants.

God gives us life and therefore has the right to take it away as he wishes. His justice is not to be compared with our sense of justice.

They quoted how he commanded the man who picked up sticks on God's sabbath to be stoned to death. It was an appropriate sentence because the man was deliberately defying God and there is no greater crime.

What say you ?

[jomifl]

Are there no Muslim myths Keyplus? Perhaps mohammed lost the leaf bearing the words about original sin, can you prove he didn't?

[Peter Pedant]

are you talking about the Historical massacre of all the little babies at the beginning of the Holy Gospel,
or something else ?