Today I read 2 Samuel 21 where a famine came to the land because Saul betrayed the trust of the Gibeonites. The thing that really is so strange is the fact that God allowed the Gibeonites to kill seven innocent people because of their father and grandfather's mistake. The Gibeonites did not want gold, they demanded seven of the progeny of Saul so they could kill them to make restitution.
This is really crazy to me. The second article of faith states that we believe men are responsible for their own sins and not for Adam's transgression. To me this states that we are not responsible for the sins of our parents, and yet in this very chapter, God is allowing seven men to be killed because of something their near ancestor did. Now, there could be more to this story than we know. Perhaps these seven people were horrible and murders or would have done something in the future. Whatever the reason, knowing God as we do from the scriptures, we can assume He would not just allow seven innocent people to be killed without a reason. Someday we will know what the reason is but for the time being, I trust in Heavenly Father. Until tomorrow.
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