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Originally Posted by awareness
Well isn't that just like the God of the Old Testament? Who punishes a mass of the innocent for the guilt of a few?
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What an ugly interpretation of Hosea. According to the prophecy in Hosea the Jews will reject their king (not simply the few who condemned Him to death). What they don't know is that their coming destruction will only be averted by someone who can see the rocks and steer the ship away from them. When they reject Jesus as captain of their ship they doom themselves to crashing on the rocks and sinking their little country and losing everything.
That is what captains do, they steer ships. If you pick a self serving captain who is clueless about the dangers but is only good at lying then you have no one but yourself to blame when your ship ends up on the rocks.
Now if God had not warned them ahead of time that might be a cause of being upset, but He did warn them. If Jesus had not reminded them when they rejected Him of the perils one might still find fault, but Jesus did remind them.
If God did not honor their free will in either choosing or rejecting Jesus you might still find fault, but God did honor their free will.
Instead nothing but hypocrisy and the ugliness of someone not willing to be accountable for their own actions.