How many has God killed?

[EricB]

Dear Mr Gary Devaney,

These killings you write about do indeed appear to be horrible acts of cruelty. I agree with you that an almighty merciful God is not capable of killing 42 children for teasing someone about their bald head. It seems crazy just thinking about that happening.

There's only one possible explanation I can think of about how such stories are in the Bible. As Sajih has taught us, the Bible has been tampered with and polluted with throughout the centuries.

It could be that someone added that story to the Bible in order to use it to scare children so that they will not tease others. I admit, they went too far with the story of 42 children getting killed by bears, but it does sound like one of those stories you tell kids at camp, when everyone is sitting around the campfire at night, telling scary stories.

I know personaly that this story would have scared the crap out of me if I heard it as a child, and I would never have teased anyone after hearing that story.

Alas, I am very confused about the Bible. Sajih seems to have found a mechanism to tell truth from fiction when it comes to the Bible, I will have to trust what he believes about this matter.

You seem like you want to believe in God, and you even state that you do believe, but you also seem to have an agenda about proving the entire Bible as false, and even entire religions as false. Why is that, may I ask?

Eric