What justification or reason is there for God's murder or endorsement of murder in the Old Testament?

Question

I read somewhere that God murdered or had people murder for him over 2,000,000 people in the Old Testament. For what reason did he do this?

Answer 1

If you are a liberal, I am sure you can tie it in to George W. Bush and make it his fault.

Answer 2

He didnt do this. It sounds like the comment of someone who has an ax to grind and is extrapulating something that is not accurate. What God did was give human beings free will. He did this so that we could love each other and him. The best feeling in the world is to Love and be loved in return.
However what the free will also gives us is the oportunity to make bad, and even evil choices. When human beings murder each other or do other things that are not positive than that isour choice not God's.
Also when God does things like the flood or Sodam and Gamora he may be taking our lives but he is also correcting our behavior as a whole. He is not taking lives, and lets remeber that our existence does not end when our time on Earth is over, he is correcting aborent behavior in the hope that we will learn enough to get to Heaven.

Answer 3

God did not cause any of the murder in the Bible unlike men he just does not cover up what happened, he tells the truth.

Just because something is recorded in the scripture does not mean the Lord condons it or caused he just allowed it to be recorded. If a court reporter writes something down does that mean she agrees with it?

Answer 4

God doesn't need Justification. We can't question him or his choices. the reasons are many though. the core reason though is sin. the people he killed were wicked people and some was done for the protection of the Jews(God's chosen people) but the reasons get more in depth than that.

Answer 5

Well, in the beginning, just think, Heaven must have been a pretty lonely place. Just God and a few angels. God says he can handle the lonliness, but he's not really a lone wolf kinda guy. I mean, I see him at tons of block parties. So anyhow, he got pretty bored of just sitting up there by himself, playing solitaire, so he figured he'd bring a few... million people back to him.

Answer 6

God did not give the opportunity to embrace repentance.

The people of Israel were swallowed by the Earth for rebelling against God and Moses - Death swallowed Jesus, but Jesus rose on the 3rd day along with those who repented for rebelling or for sinning or for being against the children of Israel.

Answer 7

The old testament also says you are allowed to get a slave from a neighboring country, you are allowed to sell your daughter as a slave, if you work on Sunday you should be put to death, and if you have long hair (as a man) you should be put to death.

I wouldn't put too much validity in anything the Bible says to be honest, it was manipulated by man many times over.

Answer 8

It is right there in The WORD !

They had polluted the Land with their sins, there was a curse on the land. They were not murdered, they were killed.

Answer 9

We had not matured as a world enough to accept the Love, Peace and Forgiveness that his son, Jesus later brought.

Peace!

Answer 10

Ask about a specific incident and there is an answer. As the answer varies with each case, there is no one answer anyone can give.

Answer 11

well,thats odd,because I also read where
Jesus Christ was killed and hung on a
cross in The Bible.
Do you suppose someone messed with the
words in both testaments of the bible?