The Holocaust proves that God is dead. How far do you agree with this statement?
Melissa Wicks 9S 12/08/2007
‘The holocaust proves that God forgot his covenant with his chosen people’
How far do you agree with this statement?
I think that God hasn’t forgotten his covenant with his chosen people because God is always there, Omnipresence, and one event in the whole course of history should not change this fact. God is still who he is, he just can’t help all the time, as his chosen people would then not know how to deal with traumatic situations if they had always been saved from them.
Many different people have different views on God, and his various promises with his people. Some Jews, believe that God is now dead. If there was a God, he would have prevented the Holocaust. Since God did not prevent it, then God has for some reason turned away from the world, and left us for forever more. This is probably the most logical thought towards agreeing with the statement and so therefore has the most Jews believing it over other views concerning the agreement of the statement. This theory is known as theothanatology or the God is dead movement. The majority of people that believe the covenant is dead are those that never believed in God in the first place, and as they never did, and probably never will, it won’t affect them at all.