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(Mat 27:46, Mark 15:34). God kills after Satan’s influence on events and others is
rendered inoperative and is prepared to kill eternally (Rev 20:10, 14-15). God kills
(Deut 32:39) everything that is killed (Gen 2:17, Rev 20:14-15) as well as being
the author of life (John 1:3). He is the ultimate killer killing death (Gen 2:17, 6:3,
Rev 20:14). God empowers all rulers including the Hitlers of this world (Dan 4:17,
Rom 13:1). God takes comfort from the punishments he meets out (Ezek 5:13).
God sometimes allows Himself to do Satan’s will (Job 2:3-6). God can be cruel
(Job 30:21, Isaiah 13:9). God sometimes hardens hearts (Ex 4:21), that is whatever
evil is done God does not shirk his ultimate responsibility for it (Judg 2:15, 1
Chron 5:26) but rather claims it as He is responsible and accountable for every
thought, word and deed that ever happens (Ex 4:21, Jer 19:3, 15, John 1:3, Rev
22:13). God accepts the responsibility for deception (Jer 4:10, 20:7).

God wars in Heaven (Rev 12:7) and on Earth (Gen 6:3, Ex 15:3, 17:16, Num
21:14) and kills (Ex 13:15, Num 16:35, Deut 32:39) even to the extent of genocide
(Gen 6:3, Ex 13:15, 23:27, Num 21:34-5, 31:15-17, Josh 10:40, 1 Sam 15:3) and
the mass killing of infants (Psalm 137:9). God approves of slavery and the
flogging of slaves under the Law (Ex 21:2, 20-21, Lev 19:20) which is the
secondary will of God, provided that the slave survives the flogging (Ex 21:20-
21). God is jealous and can be in a fury (Ex 20:5, Ezek 16:42) indeed He is furious
(Nah 1:2, Mal 3:6) as well as joyful and in peace (Gal 5:22). A betrothed slave
could be flogged under the Law for fornication (Lev 19:20). Under the Law God
commands ethnic cleansing (Ex 23:27-30, 33, Deut 20:16, Josh 23:5). Torture of
defeated people was allowed under the Law (2 Sam 12:31, 1 Chron 20:3) as was
extreme punishment such as burning alive (Lev 21:9). Severe chastisement of
children is commanded by the Law (Prov 13:24, 23:13-14). God prompts evil,
according to His purpose of the Prime Principle (2 Sam 24:1, 16). God brings evil
upon people on occasion (Jer 6:19). He commands that men, women and little
children be killed without pity (Ezek 9:5-6). All these evils of the Law are,
whenever committed, God’s secondary will not his primary will (Psalm 5:4) but
His will nevertheless and willed with the same intensity (Psalm 78:49, Jer 6:19,
Rom 12:2). As for God's primary will to come under the Law is evil and sin (Gen
2:17, Rom 3:20, 4:15, 7:7), except the commandment of salvation which is escape
from the Law (John 3:7), as to be under the Law in the first place is sin (Gen 2:17,
Rom 3:20). Once under the Law obedience to the Law is not evil but God's
secondary will and therefore necessary and righteous (Rom 7:7, 12, 8:4). These
barbarities of the Law are thus sins against the primary will of God (Gen 2:17,
Rom 3:20) but righteous obedience to his secondary will (Rom 7:7, 12, 8:4). The
same applies, of course, to the more congenial parts of the Law. The Law is not sin