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Originally Posted by Raptor
I just ran into an evil answer, when answering questions on Quora. It lists all of these incidents in the Old Testament where people died like the flood, this and that battle, Egypt plaques and firstborn dead, etc. etc. I know the answer is evil, accusing God about all kinds of things. But I was at a loss of words concerning how even to begin to answer.
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I think people have to take in the whole account of the Old Testament, starting with Genesis. For the first time, I'm going completely through the OT, from beginning to end. Before I would just read OT books or passages, but this time I'm doing right from the beginning.
I have to say that in this way, I'm starting to just now get a better idea of what God had in view back then. We can tell others that things happened because of humans' unrighteousness or because of whatever gross sin or error, but it's not easy to understand without the fuller picture. I've always been more of a NT guy, but I've had different ones tell me I ought to read the OT in its entirety. Now I'm getting just a little glimpse as to why it's good to do that.
And people we try to explain it to might not have a regenerated spirit in which to even grasp the fundamental reasons why God reacted in things back then. In any case, we can tell them how it was, and this may provide an opportunity to tell them about the awesome news of the New Covenant!