Thread:Superdadsuper/@comment-27167010-20151108020914/@comment-5175866-20151108212657

I cannot disagree that Samson at times was barbaric. Samson did not always obey God, as he like all humans have sinned against God, but Samson's purpose was to free Israelites from the Phillistines so God's will was done despite all his sins. Samson was to be a Nazirite, and so he was not allowed to have his head shaved. Samson is first shown to have his strength when a lion approaches him to attack him and so he tears  it apart with his bare hands. This was in self-defense, but sinful as he was unclean for touching a dead body. At Samson's wedding celebration he gambles with men on a riddle, and after his wife tricks him into telling it, and so in anger he kills all the men whom he gambled with.

Because of this, Samson's father marries his daughter to another man and so Samson states that he has a right to get even. He then catches 300 foxes, ties their tails together, set their tails on fire and let them loose to burn up the fields. His sinful actions continued after the Phillistines burned his wife and father to punish him for destroying their crops, and Samson viciously attacked them. The list goes on with sinful actions that Samson commits, until finally he gets his last act of revenge on the Phillistines by knocking down a Phillistine temple, killing himself and large groups of Phillistines and their rulers. So while Samson did many sinful acts, he fulfilled his purpose in removing the Phillistine occupation over Israel. Samson himself said many times that he did the things he did for revenge, which is a sin, and did not do it to honor God. So yes I recongize that Samson did much evil, but also see that through his actions God's promise was fulfilled.

To answer your response on my message wall earlier, where does morality come from if we cannot prove or disprove God? Worldwide murder is illegal or considered a sin, adulterey and sexual sin is not appreciated, stealing money is also illegal. Even in countries that had been isolated for hundreds to thousands of years have many of the same morals. If we cannot explain God, then how can you explain morals?