2006-09-18 07:09:52 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hey wouldn't you want to take out people who were evil?
2006-09-18 07:16:13 · answer #1 · answered by Charles Darwin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cant ask a question like this without reading Genesis Chapters 1-5 and making sure that everyone understood what was going on at that point. God destroyed the earth because of Satan being banished from Heaven and the Fallen Angels who had come to earth and created the race of the Nephilim, who created havoc and destruction. God was upset by the way people were so easily swayed to evil and so he caused the flood which destroyed all of those who did not believe in Him. But when He started over, He gave people the gift of "free will" and now it is up to all of us-individually-to choose Him or die with Satan. The war is already won, we just have to pick a side to fight on.
When people take scriptures out of context, that is, not reading others scriptures and chapters around it to get the FULL meaning, then misinterpretation takes place.
2006-09-18 14:18:56 · answer #2 · answered by â¤??? ?å???? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is a policeman a murderer when he forced to shoot someone in the course of his duties?
Is a solider a murderer when he has kill in the defense of his country or others?
Is the doctor who injects a convicted mass murdered sentenced to death a murderer for carying out the sentence?
There are times and cricumstances in which "killing" is justified. Both the situation that you raised for the Old Testament are situation in which it was justified.
Go back and re-read the first 6 verses of Genesis 6, which explains why the flood happened. It says that "the sons of God" (who are indentified in 2 Peter and Jude as demons or fallen angels) had breed with human women. The results was a race of "giants" (as the KJV translates it) that were destroying the world. God had to remove that genetic material from the human race in order to avoid the evils coming from it - which would have included birth defects, retardation, disease, and more. So he took the only both genetically and morally pure family on the earth, and saved them. In so doing he saved the entire rest of the human race which has descended from them.
In Exodus, the Eqyptian King was already slughtering the Jewish children. After 9 times of being warned by God over a one year period, each with a (non-lethal) plague, to let the people go free so they he could not continue to murder, torture and enslave them, God finally had to let the consequences of the Kings own actions bring about the punishment. One member of each Egyptian family died, to save the lives of every member of the Jewish families, about three million people according to the census in the book of Numbers.
Is there a time when "killing" is justified? Yes. Is that "murder"? No.
2006-09-18 14:33:48 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interestingly, this is a question that is discussed briefly in Plato's "Republic":
A man finds a ring which makes him invisible, and he uses it to overthrow a kingdom and become the new monarch. Is it wrong for him to do so?
One of the conclusions drawn in that source is that once he obtained such a level of power that no human could stop him, that man was no longer bound by the social contract. It would be like assuming mice and cockroaches had to obey human laws and putting them on trial for murder and theft. You don't try a bug - you just squash it.
This would seem to apply to dieties of all stripes as well. Rules against murder are for humans. They cannot apply to dieties in the same way. Think about it... even if we decided that God was guilty of mass murder, what could we possibly do about it? Absolutely nothing. And that is the value of our moral judgements on any divinity - absolutely nothing.
Which is not to say that dieties have no rules - but rather that only dieties can properly make and enforce them. What we think about the matter is largely irrelevant. Any diety can just squish anyone who annoys them, so the best policy is obviously not to annoy any diety that happens to be around, at least if you want to be non-squished. ( :
2006-09-18 14:28:13 · answer #4 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes he is. Many Christians will say it's because everyone in the world was sinning. However it is impossible for not one woman on the world to be pregnant. Therefore it's safe to say that God killed a pregnant woman and her innocent child.
I see an answer above that states it's "Righteous Murder". That is a complete oxymoron and it disgusts me.
2006-09-18 14:19:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God seemed very, very pissed off. I like how he seemed more vengeful to his chosen people, than to those who still didn't believe in him. After the chosen people left Egypt, all you heard was how he punished the bad in the group, you think he would take out some more Egyptians for not believing in the first place. Maybe that was all left out or something. It just seemed very odd to punish your chosen people so.
2006-09-18 14:13:14 · answer #6 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YHVH is the Hebrew war god. Although supposedly Judaism has always been monotheistic, Judaism was actually polytheistic. I don't remember the 3rd one, but the other 2 major gods were Yahweh (YHVH) and Baal.
A war god does not love peace.
2006-09-18 14:13:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
First of all, God flooded the earth to cleanse it of sin and the unclean animals. God is not a murderer, nor a contradictor, because He gave us commandments not to murder. It's not in His nature to murder.
2006-09-18 17:22:47 · answer #8 · answered by Sofa P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. God hates humans. A long history of this.
2006-09-18 14:15:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the bible what does the word water mean? the word
baptism. so what did he do to them? If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
2006-09-18 14:26:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋