In The Bible, there is always:
The protagonist ( Associated with the person whom God is Helping )
The antagonist ( someone who is always associated with a person satan uses )
Other persons ( surrounding the circumstance )
The book of esther:
The book of esther, is rather morally confounding to me.
First it starts out based on "
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. "
samuel is a prophet who told the king to slay a queen apparently of this nation, who the king did not, and she had a child that apparently burned with wrath against the jews for killing his entire culture.
The verse close to the end of Esther Reads:
9:23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them; 9:24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; 9:25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows "
My question is how is this story interpreted as anything else other than complete and absolute immorality?
Haman the agagite:
1.) I can't understand, without any association, either in the context of good or bad, how someone whose people were completely eradicated would not seek vengeance.
Because God told the jews to eradicate these people, and the fact they did not, it morally compounds the issue, when a child is born exceptionally angry because of what happened to his people, where their sin can not be associated with him.
2.) I can not understand nor comprehend how this person would effectively be evil.
The fact the entire story culminates with his death, as if it were something good makes me question how on earth a person who entered into this world with such circumstances and the fact this persons past shaped their life, is somehow tied into the life of a person God used to destroy him and the rest of his people as he originally intended, using Esther, to effectively sabotage his plan to keep the jews alive.
How can someone morally explain this here? When dealing with living people, the sory emphasizes that God intended to kill a child from birth and made plans to do because he was angry with the people God sent to eradicate his culture.
How on earth is this Holy?
