When reading the end of silence, I couldn't stop thinking about what the role of the Christian is when it comes to the suffering of others. We keep talking about how it was the priests that caused the peoples' suffering by not apostatizing. However, isn't it really the fault of those actually doing the persecuting? Yes, the priests are in a way the cause of the tormentors response, but they are not actually choosing to torture the Christians.
When Rod began to see his choice to save the people as the ultimate sacrifice, I started to wonder what he thought about the actual act of apostatizing. Did he see it as disobedience? Because I'm pretty sure there is a verse in 1st Samuel talking about how obedience is better than sacrifice. Still, I'm not saying what Rod did was wrong. That's something I don't think one would really know until they are in the experience. Yes, it's horrible to cause someone pain, but he wasn't choosing to cause someone pain directly. His obedience to God was causing others to cause pain. I really don't know. I would probably have done what he did, but I still can't help but wonder how far we as Christians should go to alleviate or prevent suffering.
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