What kind of God approves of murder, rape, and slavery?

Question

As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you

Deuteronomy 20:10-14

Answer 1

Why can't Satan have a hand in all this?

Besides, this is the bugaboo about free will.

Answer 2

it is true God told His people to do that. Do you look to accuse God or desperetly find a reason to justify whatever you might have done. Why does your heart condemn you is there a battle raging inside you? Your God loves you and wants you to be wiith Him. He created you. He took pleasure in making you. He smiled upon you as you were born. and then like the rest of us you walked away. maybe on your own or maybe because of someone else whatever the reason He wants you back. Dont be mad at your God. He is just and honest He is also merciful and longsuggering. come home. The time is at hand and The master Jesus the Christ stands at the gates be watchful

Answer 3

God is a loving God. We all know that. But, the Old Testament says that he is a vengeful God. As the other answerer pointed out, man is given free will. Sadly, we often make terribly wrong Choices. In the Old Testament, God often gave his chosen people free reign over their enemies. That does not mean he approves of the things you named. In fact, the Bible is very clear about those things.

Answer 4

If you haven't noticed, rape is against God's laws. Furthermore, God required that slaveholders loyal to the Lord were to treat their slaves well and to release them after 7 years of servitude unless they chose to stay. As for murder, how is that murder? It's war, to eliminate the wicked from the land and to make room for a people holy to the Lord. If you have ever expressed patriotism, you must by your definition be a murderer, or you encourage murder!

Answer 5

well it is all lie that Christan says GOD doesn't give them permission to kill then tell me why they killed Muslims in crusade why they have military if they dint need to self defence why they need army if they are not permitted to war well if some robbers break into your house what should u do if they threatens ur life what law says abt it? well i have verses that talks opposite to what is said above .1 Samuel 15:2-4
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 ***.
Numbers 31:17-18 "Now kill all the boys [innocent kids]. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man."
Numbers 31:35-40 "[From the captives of war] 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.......of which the tribute for the LORD was 32 [among them were virgin girls]."
The following was taken from http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/guido_deimel/judaism.html regarding Numbers 31:17-18 in the Bible:
yes it is permitted to self defence if someone tries to take your freedom threat to your religion steal your homes u can fight them there is not a single verse in KORAN that talks about the killings of women chilrens but we need to educate people to understand KORAN, About slavery & rape they are prohibted
"On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our apostles with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land. (The Noble Quran, 5:32)"

Answer 6

God doesn't approve of murder, rape or slavery!!??
I think you need to read the Old Testament about how things were handled during a battle or a war!

Answer 7

Aren't we arrogant to think we can question God?

Anyway, that is the God of the old testement, before he entered a new covenant available to all humans. Keep reading the Bible, you'll understand if you read with an open mind.

Answer 8

What kind of god? - the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

It's amazing that the posters above can rationalize this passage nonetheless with idiotic comments about free will and 'how dare you question my imaginary friend'. If they actually read the stupid passage, they will see that this is supposedly a direct command from god himself.

Answer 9

most of the till now gods are to blame for this, from those of Abrahamic faith, to the chinese language and the South people. Gods are moulded with appreciate to the beliefs of guy at that distinct cases. Our ancestors had to live to inform the tale for the time of harsher and a lot less enlightened cases, for this reason, barbaric moves were deemed necessary or familiar. besides the indisputable fact that, as made grew to develop into more desirable civilised, so did their Gods, correspondingly. for this reason, the hot testomony replaced into created at the same time as it replaced into deemed that the former testomony replaced into portraying their God in a bloodthirsty gentle. They used Jesus as separate figure, to justify the replace of heart in God

Answer 10

Rape was not mentioned, the Lord wanted to destroy the bad influence of these people, that was also the old testament and now the new testament is where we live.

Answer 11

Well, the bible wasn't actually written by God, remember.

That, and it's the Old Testament; and a lot of the Old Testament's makes very little sense.