Biblically speaking, is genocide tolerable or should it be stopped at all costs?

Answer 1

it depends on what testament you are in.

In the old testament, there are times when God had Israel kill their enemies, but when Israel was embracing idols and abandoning their God, God had other armies, including Babylon come in and slaughter most of the Israelites.

There are also times that the LORD mentions that He is enraged at the nations for how they act as well as how they treated Israel. So there were times that they got invaded by each other and slaughtered that way.

However in the new testament, It is preached by Jesus Christ that we are to love our neighbor, as His death and Resurrection ushered in anew age of grace for mankind.

It could be spoken that God could have cause the Holocaust to happen (AS MUCH AS HE DOD NOT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN), He did allow a way for the Jews to get back to Israel 20 years prior to WW2. But because so few wanted to go back to their homeland, He ultimately raised up an enemy to chase them back to their homeland to kick off the new clock towards Armageddon. and the future ushering in of the age of wrath, as mentioned in the book of Isiah, Ezekiel, Zachariah, and revelation.

so to answer your question, when has occurred in the past, even tough it is terrible to perform any kind of mass-human extermination. There usually is an ultimate purpose for it

Answer 2

Genocide speaks for itself. Genocide: Crime against humanity.
Absolutly. Biblically speaking and in every other way those aqused and proven to war lords and leaders of an act of genocide deserve to be chopped up into little peices while kept alive. But before that they should be forced to go to all the families that they have affected and see what kind of damage they have caused and then they should have to go those poor victims of the genocide and make them see what they've done. Then put them thru the most horrible series of tortures that would take two months to complete.

Also, I've noticed a trend in your question asking. The last question that you asked that I was involved in was about why god only loved one particular race and not everyone else. It seems that you don't ask questions because you don't know the answer but because you like to see the reaction and answers that you get. You forget that, that is not the purpose of this program. Its here for people with real questions that are looking for real answers. I figured this out by realizing that a person could'nt be this dum to answer such visibly retoricle questions.

Answer 3

There is no "Biblically speaking" on this issue, in a monolithic sense.

There are several places in the Old Testament--notably Joshua 8, where Joshua & the Hebrews kill every man, woman, child, and animal in the city of Jericho--where genocide is ordered or approved by God.

There is also a doctrine of radical nonviolence preached in Matthew 5, among other places.

The Christian religion has a deeply divided soul. On one hand, it is fundamentally a religion of nonviolence and unconditional love. On the other hand, it is a religion whose history is characterized by world conquest, genocide, and brutality. There are no easy answers to this apparent contradiction, except, of course, the possibility that the key to the Christian version of the universal message of world religions to seek the will of the Most Sacred cannot be found in a literal reading of the internally contradictory Bible.

Answer 4

Firstly, there are cases of genocide in the Bible, but this doesn't mean God approves of it. For example, King David killed all the male Edomites. King Saul persecuted the Gibbionites, but God was angry for him doing that and punished Israel. There are other cases such as the invasion of the Promised Land by Joshua.
Secondly, God gave a commandment: "Thou shall not kill". This was given to a community, meaning the community should not tolerate socialised killing. By this I mean Genocide, infanticide, etc.
Thirdly, Jesus said, "Love your neighbour as yourself".
So genocide isn't acceptable even though it did occur in the Bible and appears to have occured with God's blessing, which I don't believe is the case.

Answer 5

The old Testament recounts tales of genocide committed by the children of Israel when they entered Israel from Sinaii, but does not necessarily condone them. Unless they conquered the the land of Caana for themselves they would not have survived as a nation.
The bible does contain passages that a modern person may find shocking (see the link). As Graham Greene stated in his book Brighton Rock "No one understand the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God".
According to Christian tradition the New Testament shuns such actions, saying one should love they neighbour as thyself. However even in the lifetime of our generation Genocides have been committed with the seemingly tacit approval of some christian churches in Kosova and Bosnia.

Answer 6

Biblically speaking, the Bible never once condemns such a practice, yet on several occasions god supposedly commanded the Israelites to carry it out.

But the Old Testament is just a collection of psychotic ramblings from an ignorant and violent society.

Answer 7

In the OLD TESTAMENT, God alllowed the "destruction" of sinful races for the fact that they no longer accepted the Truth of God's will and with that they dishonored the COVENANT with God. The Great Flood, the Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gommorah, Jericho, all of these instances of God's Wrath, it was provoked by sin and pride.

Genocide is unacceptable in the NEW TESTAMENT because Christ preached God, His Father's (and our's) infinite Love. That's the distinction between the Old and New Testaments, wherein God's Omnipresent Power was most oftenly Vengeful while in the New Testeament, God's Omnipresent Power was of Love and Care which is most beautifully shown in HIS sending forth of His "only begotten son.." (For God so loved the world, He gave us HIS only SON, John 3:16).

Hope this helped.

Vivere in Pace! (Live in Peace!)

Answer 8

In the new testament genocide is not acceptable. In the old testament God instructed his people to wipe out men, women and children from a city.

Answer 9

Biblically speaking genocide is a way of cleansing the population from that which is unpure and evil.
However all humans are inherently unpure and evil therefore who is worthy of elimination?

Answer 10

It is according to what role genocide plays. If it is for the good it is okay. Which would include God. But for the bad it isn't. Humanistically I would say no. And the Bible was written by man. So in that case the man was who he was. I would definitely say hell no.