If God is so loving and caring and just, then why did he send Moses into Arab villages to rape and kill?

Question

In book of Genisis God gives Moses and his followers permission to destroy the Arab villages and take them for their own. God also says you can rape the women and take them for their's, kill the babies and men and whatever else they felt like doing.

This doesnt sound like this all loving God you Christians brag about.

Answer 1

I agree with aleysha, that is not right, the people who were destroyed were judged by god because they were so evil, archaeologists who have uncovered evidence of the sort of things that these people were doing have said that they were surprised that god didn't destroy them sooner, they were so depraved. Also there were ones who were saved such as rahab and others.

Answer 2

Could you please provide scripture references where God tells Moses and the Isralites to go in and rape the women? Like the serpent in the garden, you've taken some of the words of God and twisted them to your own.

Taking captives and taking the survivors after a battle was a common practice throughout all history, not just Biblical battles. When you conquered and enemy, you would keep their gold and valuables. Any women or children would be taken into your fold to become citizens of your community. The reason the Isralites went to war in the first place was because they were claiming the promised land.
You can make God out to be a bad guy all you want, but one day, you will see the truth.

Answer 3

Are you sure that you're talking about Moses, and not some OTHER Hebrew leaders, who came after him? What you're saying is has a grain of truth to it; but the writings about Moses and those who followed after him were in the book of Exodus, not Genesis, to my knowledge. (--As in "Exodus from Egypt"--which was the book that documented everything around Moses' time) King Saul, in fact, was deposed for not following God's command to destroy a particular tribe utterly (including all of that tribe's women, children, and even their animals), and he was replaced by David.

As for what I assume is your point--which is that Chrstians are (supposedly) either liars, hypocrites, or both:
All that I can say is that some are, and some aren't. There are two aspects to their God, as depicted in their Bible, and some of those aspects are very judgmental and punishing, while the Bible, in other places, talks about "turning the other cheek" and about "the meek inheriting the Earth." Another tactic that some Christian ministers use is that they'll tell their followers that Jesus' dying for their sins means that they no longer have to follow any of the rules in the O.T. (so, for example, they can now eat pork), but--WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT FOR THEM--those ministers will cite all of the harsh laws in the O.T. that they AGREE with and say, "See? It says so, right here in the Bible!"

In my experience, most Christians try to do the right thing and are very tolerant people. It's the ones who are NOT who get all of the publicity; and, unfortunately, they have a lot of influence on the populace--not to mention the government.

Answer 4

That is the worst misquote I have ever seen. You have never read the bible. Mosses never entered the promise land and lived in desert for 40 years. Joshua lead the Isrealites into the promise land and never did he say it was ok to rape anyone.
To have sex with someone you were not married to carried a death sentence. Those people throw there babies into a fire alive to apease these false gods. Pounding the drumbs so they couldn't hear their screams as they burned up.
Some were given as temple prostitutes from birth male and female theses were those wonderful arabs, You speak of.
There horrible fertility rites included useing children for sex by any male that wanted to use them. that is why God wanted them destroyed. Read Joshua of the accounts: Even the one person who was favorable was a prostitute Rahab and they allowed her and her family to live. They were told to destroy everything don't take anything out of there. Because those people were so wicked. No account says they raped anyone. ever! Find it and show it. The Arabs use rape as a war weapon the israelites never did.

Answer 5

Ok, Moses isn't IN Genesis, he's in Exodus ( trivial point ) and I can only find 2 incidences in the bible where the word 'rape' is used and neither is used in this reference you are mentioning.
As far as the pillaging and all that you were talking about, yes there is a time in Isreal's history when during war this would happen. I have read this account and NO, it is not the Isrealites or "God's People" that would do this thing of killing the babies and raping the women; this was a practice done by other armies. Killing the babies was so that they could not be secretly raised by the women taken as hostages and quietly taught to hate their captors and grow up as rebels. The men were killed outright so as not to form rebellions and the women were taken as brides or concubines by the captors to break their spirits and make them not willing to even want to try to escape and return to their homes.
God IS a loving god and would never have allowed his chosen people to take brides or to have relations even, with women who were not of his chosen race. In fact, there were times when he was SO displeased with His OWN people for disobeying such a strict and important law of his, that yes, he did have some of his own put to death for such actions. But such actions as rape and killing of babies were not taken against enemy captives, not in any of the texts I have read and I did a lot of research to find the answer to your question.
But you may ask why would a loving God kill his own people for disobeying? To make the point that such gross disobedience is not allowed and is totally inadmissable in his true worship. Worship of a God of Truth and Righteousness must be kept clean and pure. Corrupting it with defilement with women that worship false gods and idols and who practice beliefs that are filthy and disgusting to God is something detestable to him and cannot be allowed.
I believe I would feel the same way if I were the supreme creator of the universe and I had made everything, and my chosen people turned their backs on me and worshipped something ELSE that I had made instead of ME that made it. Its kind of like your child, Bowing down and giving reverence and worship to a Wooden bookshelf that you had made and thanking it for the toy you had made for him, instead of hust thanking YOU for it!! How insulting is that????

Answer 6

definite.I too had the doubt for an exceptionally long term.God is merciful.even if if we believe in him or no longer,we are finally his toddlers.And the actuality that God will deliver non believers to the damnation of hell for all eternity is incorrect.a number of human beings alongside with Christians say that Jesus believed and taught his followers approximately reincarnation ie. God giving non believers a 2nd threat to spirituality and additionally some archaeologists are on the verge of proving this.they say Bible had specific info approximately reincarnation.on the instant,specific archaeologists say that records and teachings of reincarnation have been destroyed by using a Templar Byzantine emperor Justinian.no person is conscious why he did this,according to threat to create a terror between non-believers to settle for Christianity.yet truly the actuality that a non believer would be despatched to hell constantly is definitely incorrect because of the fact God is a merciful father, no longer a barbaric butcher.

Answer 7

In Genesis??? Im no bible-basher, but the world was just getting created then, there wasnt any Arabs, as such, Mohammed hadnt came along yet.Youd need to give a direct quote from the bible to back this up. In saying that, I do think that a lot of what is in the Bible is very pro-Christian, very biased, and ffs the treatment of women is an effing joke!!

Answer 8

Guy, ap,
fGoF atLJC.

Law Law God on high, in plural & divided heavens where it's law worketh wrath either side of such left/right law/law, isn't loving but fearing(tormenting), isn't all comforting but rather dis-comforting, isn't just but an unjust judge who can be hounded by dogs for some crumbs off his table, but along with it comes the death sting of being a law imputed sinner.

As for "Moses Moses", he's a doublemindead as the law law God he serves, not knowing only "above a servant" is "free"-dom.

TgooLJCwya. Amen.

Answer 9

This is not a made up story. Read this in your Bibles and then try to say that it's made up. "If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her." Deuteronomy 22:28-29

Answer 10

Does god do things because he's benevolent? If yes, then what he wills is because he's right. but...

If he's benevolent, how could he allow 6 million of his chosen people to be incinerated by Hitler, or why did he allow Truman to vaporize 200,000 Japanese men, women and children or Stalin to kill 30m Christians? If he was also omnipotent AND benevolent, then these events could not have happened.

If you counter that man's "free will" caused those events to happen, so don't blame God, then can it be said God is not omnipotent AND benevolent, because he allowed man's free will to reign?

And further, the mere existence of evil in the world makes the existence of a benign god impossible: if god were omnipotent, he could eliminate evil and if he were benign, he would want to do so...another way of saying this:

If god is able to prevent evil but is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not benevolent.

If god is willing to prevent evil but is not able to prevent evil, then he is not omnipotent.

Evil is either in occordance with god's intention or contrary to it. Thus, either god cannot prevent evil or he does not want to prevent evil.