Question for Christians?

God has no need for our kind of justice. God justice say that all have sinned and deserve death. That he spares some of us for salvation is unbelievable great grace. Paul answer your question in Romans 9

20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

God is sovereign ruler and does with us as it pleases Him. Still each of us is responsible.

MIMI

Do some research on Amalek.

Deuteronomy 25:17-19

"Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God.

Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.

God is a righteous judge, and judges righteously.

The Crusades were justified by the call "win back the Holy Land" but were actually done for political and economic reasons. Muslims use a "jihad" saying it is sanctioned by God to likewise carry out their own agendas that in fact have absolutely nothing to do with religion. The passage you indicate falls into that same category... a people justifying the evil that they are doing by saying "God told me to do it". The fact that people who supposedly are trying to follow God do evil deeds does not mean that God is evil. The Bible is not a history book.

Something to consider...The Amalekites appeared to fight the Hebrews after Moses first struck the Rock, as God commanded, to bring water to the thirsty people following God. Water is life to the flesh in the wilderness. Every time God helped the people who agreed to follow His rules in exchange for His blessings and guidance, people who did not agree to His rules came against God's people. And to take water in the wilderness from a people is to leave those people to die, all of them, the children, and the animals. So, the Amalekites weren't all about sharing. It was a fight for life and they focused on the material world outside of God's rules which means kill or be killed. That's the world view they lived by and understood and would have done unto others in a heartbeat. God gave water in the wilderness where the people were thirsty and instead of asking to follow such a God of Providing (Jehovahjireh), other people only understood killing the owners of the water. Even then, God was more concerned with their understanding and attaining eternal life beyond this flesh life. God won the flesh war that they valued and respected the victors. Then, on the other side of the gulf in paradise, Jesus went and taught them about salvation. God willing, many listened to Him, were adopted into the Family of Christ (no more Amalekites) and found eternal life, so much better than the best rewards of flesh life. 2 Peter 3:9 KJV

1 Peter 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17 For it is better, if the will of God be so , that ye suffer for well doing , than for evil doing . 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient , when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing , wherein few, that is , eight souls were saved by water. 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Exodus 17:1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink . 2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said , Give us water that we may drink . And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said , Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? 4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying , What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. 5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go . 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink . And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying , Is the LORD among us, or not? 8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out , fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. 10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed : and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed . 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi: 16 For he said , Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.