How Do You Answer People Concerning "Moral Abominations" in the OT?

[Ekklesia]

heb13-13, when folks react to God's commandments with moral outrage (such as His commandment for Israel to punish the Amalekites by killing them), or his allowance of Job's suffering, people are fundamentally committing a type of idolatry. They are putting their (own) sense of morality above that of God's.

If we had perfect understanding, that we saw the end from the beginning, like God, perhaps we'd be in some position to judge Him. If you've ever been in a position to look too closely at a painting such that you could ONLY see its pixels, but not the image itself, that is like our own sense of morality. It is so defective compared to God's as to be of no comparison. (If we did share God's morality completely, we'd love what He loves, and we'd hate what He hates as completely as He (for example we'd not be able to tolerate sin).

The dilemma is this, how do you tell someone who refuses to see the big picture, someone staring at the pixels, that all they see are the pixels? You have to get them to first see that there is a big picture, before you can show them that simply staring at the pixel's is no way to judge the composition.

This is the same with addressing people's sense of moral outrage against God (using [Isa 55:8-9][James 1:2-5][Phil 4:4-7]). Once they accept that there is a God, and that He is not like us, you can begin to work on whether or not God exhibits His attributes perfectly.