Take My Hand in the Meantime

Let's walk into the sunshine

After a day of intense essay writing, I am left feeling mentally and physically exhausted.
I lay here--thinking about what I wrote and how the topic I chose for my research essay is enough for a masters paper.

Topic: The Religious Implications of the Holocaust
Thesis: Faith can not only survive but strengthen in times of adversity.

The topic was inspiring and challenging. As I sat down and wrote today referencing over five books, I realized to tear down an argument of an opposing critic I must go against my own morals. I was backed into a corner...What do I do? Richard Rubensteind states in his critcal essay that God really died at Auschwitz. Furthermore that nothing Israel could have done could deserve such violence. Now--I agree with him there, but he uses that as a reason to turn from faith, redefining an omnipotent God to be a God of nature who doesn't interfere in our lives. If God doesn't intervene--Rubenstein feels its easier to place the Holocaust in history. But, here is my dillema, to tear down his argument, I must use the Old Testament to prove that the Israelites sinned, and more than that, that the bible states very clearly that we will be punished for the sins of our forefathers. But wait...I'm backed up into a moral corner. Did I just say that because God made a covenant with Israel, and because Israel broke that covenent by worshipping the Baals, that the Jews took the punishment of their forefathers? I couldn't have...I can't...I simply cannot argue that in any way was what happened deserved on any level.

So now, I must take the standpoint that we brought this on ourselves... we did this. God gave us freewill and with that freewill came the corruption of man. Because we were given freewill, mankind sinned--and sinned, and inevitably sinned. We did this to ourselves--God did not bring the Holocaust upon us. Hitler was not god's angel of redemption, rather he was a man who chose to live a life without God, and by making that choice he went down a path that led to his own and many others destruction.

Is it that we are still under God's judgement from the original sin of Adam and Eve? Or are we merely experiencing the consequences of others actions?

Hence my moral dillema