why do christians serve a God with the morals of Hitler?

Question

It always amazes me how many times this God orders the killing of innocent people even after the Ten Commandments said “Thou shall not kill”. For example, God kills 70,000 innocent people because David ordered a census of the people (1 Chronicles 21). God also orders the destruction of 60 cities so that the Israelites can live there. He orders the killing of all the men, women, and children of each city, and the looting of all of value (Deuteronomy 3). He orders another attack and the killing of “all the living creatures of the city: men and women, young, and old, as well as oxen sheep, and asses” (Joshua 6).

In Judges 21, He orders the murder of all the people of Jabesh-gilead, except for the virgin girls who were taken to be forcibly raped and married. When they wanted more virgins, God told them to hide alongside the road and when they saw a girl they liked, kidnap her and forcibly rape her and make her your wife! Just about every other page in the Old Testament has God killing somebody! In 2 Kings 10:18-27, God orders the murder of all the worshipers of a different god in their very own church! In total God kills 371,186 people directly and orders another 1,862,265 people murdered.



The God of the Bible also allows slavery, including selling your own daughter as a sex slave (Exodus 21:1-11), child abuse (Judges 11:29-40 and Isaiah 13:16), and bashing babies against rocks (Hosea 13:16 & Psalms 137:9).

Answer 1

HAHAHAHAHA. amazing how all of your "killings and violence" is Old Testament verses. ? Hello?

A christian is a New testament teachings. Use killings and violence according to Christian New Testament.

That's the problem, hello? Islam lives old testament.

Christians live New testament.

I'll explain this again. You can't quote scripture of killings and violence from the New testament.

.Have a great week.

Answer 2

We don't. The commandment can be more accurately translated as do not murder, and almost all of the acts that you described are acts of war. On top of that, the other killings were not unjustified. The reason Jesus came to die for us is so that we would not have to die for our sins. The acts you described are punishments for sin. And in Exodus 21, they are not "sex slaves". They are talking about a situation where a man who was a slave that was set free loved his family or the family he served so much that he wanted to remain a servant of that household. As for the child abuse, most likely that girl just lived her life out in seclusion, and as it says, knowing no man. And the accounts in Hosea and Isaiah is simply judgment that will fall upon a certain nation. Remember, most of these things are punishments, but for some of the other things, just because the Bible records these events does not necessarily mean that it condones them. Hope this helps, God bless!

Answer 3

I'd imagine it's either because they haven't read and understood their book, or because they think that might makes right (certainly a Hitlerian belief).
Even the stories that get told all the time, like the Garden of Eden or the Tower of Babel are filled with god's small minded malice. Has anyone noticed that the snake is the good guy in the garden? He's the one who wants man to grow and tells them the truth about the tree. God doesn't like competition so he lies about the tree. (Gen 2:017: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.) The snake tells the truth about the tree (3:004: And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die 3:005: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.), so god has to kick their butt out of the garden before they eat from the tree of eternal life and can rival the gods.
In the tower story god is mad because everyone is working together and he's afraid that they might grow too much. (Gen 011:006: And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.) God in these stories is trying to keep man down.
Then there's the time god threw a divine tantrum and killed everyone in the whole world except for the folks in the ark.
I don't believe that there is a god, but if the christian god existed, it would be up to every decent human being to fight against his evil in the world. Supporting that evil is truly disgusting. It has made me conclude that Christianity is a boot-licker's religion. It also makes me think that, just as advertised in the Eden story, they really don't know right from wrong.

Answer 4

I would just ask you what gives you the idea that you are qualified or have the right to judge God and the innosence of those people, I think you are very misleadand do not know God so how can you JUDGEsomeone you do not know?as for those people you mention to be innocent you do not know them either!I'm sorry you feel that way but you are desperately misguided!

Answer 5

People will believe what they want. Some people will also refuse to believe anything that isn't already implanted in their heads from people of power. That's all I see from the church that preaches scriptures. They believe their translation of the bible is more important then others'. The church wouldn't want for the people to translate the bible on their own because then the church would have no power.

Answer 6

You have an unbelievably naive, superficial understanding of the scriptures. That is because you are reading a poor translation of the text, orginally in Hebrew, translated to Greek, and from there to other languages, eventually to English.

The other problem is that you do not have the benefit of the Jewish commentators, who for centuries have pored over, studied, and written explanations of what the texts mean.

Answer 7

Please remember that the bible was written by MAN, not god! And, again, it was and is interpreted by man... Personally, I've studied the bible.. for years.. it's a good book, as far as I'm concerned, but is in line with Aesop's fables and shouldn't be taken seriously as a life-plan.. life's lessons, perhaps..
And, I do not believe that, if there is only one god, he/she/it would condone the majority of what is written in the bible, the koran, the many other books attributed to this god.
Always, question those who say they speak for god!.. and those who say their writings are at god's hand...

Answer 8

What version of the bible did you read? because there are many many versions of the bible out there. Did the devil tell you to do say that? Its funny how people will say someone is innocent...when they really arent. Who is innocent anymore? None of us are worth of the word innocent. We're filthy...dirty....sinners. All of us! The only thing that makes us more INNOCENT than some...is we believe God loves us NO MATTER WHAT....he did so many things to help us be ALIVE today...He let his only son die and suffer for US....Thats how I know God loves me. cause he took me, and so many others into his heart and mind before he took someone who was his own son....Oh, by the way...How do you exactly know FOR SURE God did all that? Were you there? Did you see it? Did you talk to God.....wow, tell him I said HI. And i want to know where's my freakin pony! hahaha.

Answer 9

I actually have a response for gilgamesh. The fact that you use "small minded" when referring to God just blows my mind. This God, had enough mind to create you. I like your different perspective of Adam & Eve, especially about God lying and the snake providing truth to Adam and Eve. God was not blowing smoke to them in efforts of control when he said if you eat of this furit you will perish. Did they not perish? And another thing. If God "doesn't like competition" why would he give man free will?

Answer 10

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! God really gets a bad rap with you people. I'm not going to argue your points because I know there is no changing your minds and I'm scripturally inept. But come on Morales of Hitler? Is that necessary?