Christians, if god appeared before you today and said this to you, would you obey?

Question

Deuteronomy 12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
13 Certain men, the children of Be'li-al, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
14 then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
15 thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

And don't give me any of that 'god would never tell us this' nonsense. He's done it before.

This is a simple YES or NO question. Try giving one of these answers before you start writing 15 pages in response.

So that's at least 7 people willing slaughter infidels.

Answer 1

Let us go serve Frank

Answer 2

No, I would not. It wouldn't be God. On the basis of 1 John 4:1-3, I would know this to be an inspired expression - not of God - but of someone else. Particularly is this so since God does not contradict himself and the Mosaic law covenant - in which this command at Deuteronomy is found - is no longer in force according to God.

Answer 3

Yes I would, but that in which you quoted was the old law covenant, in which Jesus fulfilled!
We have a new commandment that we must fulfill!

Covenant;
Hebrews 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second; 8 for he does find fault with the people when he says: “‘Look! There are days coming,’ says Jehovah, ‘and I will conclude with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant; 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their forefathers in [the] day of my taking hold of their hand to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant, so that I stopped caring for them,’ says Jehovah.”

10 “‘For this is the covenant that I shall covenant with the house of Israel after those days,’ says Jehovah. ‘I will put my laws in their mind, and in their hearts I shall write them. And I will become their God, and they themselves will become my people.

11 “‘And they will by no means teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying: “Know Jehovah!” For they will all know me, from [the] least one to [the] greatest one of them. 12 For I shall be merciful to their unrighteous deeds, and I shall by no means call their sins to mind anymore.’”

13 In his saying “a new [covenant]” he has made the former one obsolete. Now that which is made obsolete and growing old is near to vanishing away.

Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the Law, so that everyone exercising faith may have righteousness.

Hebrews 7:12 For since the priesthood is being changed, there comes to be of necessity a change also of the law.

Matthew 5:17 “Do not think I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I came, not to destroy, but to fulfill;

Romans 7:6 But now we have been discharged from the Law, because we have died to that by which we were being held fast, that we might be slaves in a new sense by the spirit, and not in the old sense by the written code.

Ephesians 2:15 By means of his flesh he abolished the enmity, the Law of commandments consisting in decrees, that he might create the two peoples in union with himself into one new man and make peace;

Colossians 2:14 and blotted out the handwritten document against us, which consisted of decrees and which was in opposition to us; and He has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the torture stake.

Commandment;
John 13:34 I am giving YOU a new commandment, that YOU love one another; just as I have loved YOU, that YOU also love one another. 35 By this all will know that YOU are my disciples, if YOU have love among yourselves.”

We as christians must also do this;
Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded YOU. And, look! I am with YOU all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”

If you don't want more than a yes or no, don't ask questions that cant be answers truthfully with a yes or no! This is a trick question!

Answer 4

No, I would not, becuase he would not ask it of me.

You are taking that scripture out of context. It is part of the Old Testament which is based off of the old covenant that the Lord made with His people. When He saw people who were living blasphemous lives, He might decide to ask some of His followers to work out His justice in their lives.

The new covenant was made through sending His Son to die on the cross for our sins. Since this point in time, God has used Jesus to work in the hearts of men and women to try to show them what is right.

Answer 5

No, I believe in God not the fictitious Bible.

God didn't write the Bible, some was written by drunken disciples and the other half was written several hundred years after Christ died (then it's all been changed up by Catholics since then)

All the Christians saying "yes" scare me, if I sketch something in the Bible will you obey that like sheep too?

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

First I would need to see (2) forms of valid I.D and then I would decide.Although in a smiting case I would not be the best person to ask, pacifists are never much help...

Answer 8

Cannot be answered as a simple yes or no! You are asking a question in the New Testament context (Grace) from the Old Testament context (Law)...

Answer 9

How about not taking God's word out of context. I find it hard to believe that all you nonbelievers can expect to understand a spiritually inspired bible when you have not been born again spiritually. The natural man can not discerne the spiritual.

Answer 10

if u read on the Bible is talking about "don't worship the other Gods in their own way", also God is talking about " worship Me the Lord and and seek your place with Me." Read the Bible more carefuly, finish reading the rest of Deuteronomy 12:4-7.

Answer 11

Yes.

I am a Hindu, educated in a convent school and college.

I respect the Bible and would definately follow whatever God says
whether he appears before me or in his earthly absence.