A muslim here wondering: Is Christianity a terrorist religion? is the Bible a book of terror?

Question

(two can play your game!)

what does this mean in the bible?
"When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you may nations...then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy." Deuteronomy 7:1-2, NIV. 1
"...do not leave alive anything that breaths. Completely destroy them...as the Lord your God has commanded you..." Deuteronomy 20:16, NIV.

Religious intolerance in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament)

*Instruction to murder persons of other faiths: Any person who performs religious rituals to other than Jehovah was to be executed.

Exodus 22:20 "He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed."


*A call to God to destroy persons of other faiths:

Psalms 79:6: "Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name."

I dont think the Bible is, this highlights the childless nature of those who cut paste from the qur'an

tube dude...the whole point is that they quote out of context without thinking, like I have done above, I know the answer to my question is no

Answer 1

may peace be upon you
do not play their game

Answer 2

DEUTERONOMY
CHAPTER 7
Israel to destroy seven nations of Canaan—Marriages with them are forbidden lest apostasy result—Israel has a mission as a holy and chosen people—The Lord shows mercy unto those who love him and keep his commandments—He promises to remove sickness from Israel if they hearken.
1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven anations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly adestroy them; thou shalt bmake no ccovenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
DEUTERONOMY
CHAPTER 20

16 But of the acities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth
Get the correct and complete verse before judgeing.

The Bible is not evil, nor is the religious book of Islam...it is just how you precieve it. And God does not wish for all this fighting and killing amoung people, but people do have the freedom to choose.

Answer 3

The underlying problem that presents the West and the Islamic world as two monolithic irreconcilable civilisations is conjured up again and again - but as you astutely realise - it is not to do with the words in books, `books of terror`, but in the way those words are interpreted by men with the usual fallibilities of men.

Take this example. According to Abu al A la al Mawdudi, the foremost idealogue of modern islamism, `there can be no reconciliation between islam and democracy, not even in minor issues, because they contradict each other in all particulars` - and anyone who says otherwise is apostate.

Mawdudi is insisting on Gods rule as the correct alternative to democracy, even though it can be found nowhere in the Koran or the hadith, the only two authoritative texts.

On the other hand, the Iranian scholar Hamid Enayat has shown that by diligent exegesis from respected Islamic sources it is `neither... inordinately difficult nor illegitimate to derive a list of democratic rights and liberties.`

So in fact Islam may be reconcilable with democracy.

Ultimately, the unavoidable obstacle remains: there can be no political rights or liberties without religious pluralism and toleration.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1782, referring to the intolerance of Christians:

`Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men: men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity... Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned: yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.`

Answer 4

As a Christian - thank you for taking the time to read the Bible. Yes there are examples of the Lord directing his people the Jews to take over certain lands and wipe out the inhabitants in order to do so. Even punishment for those who did not follow this commandment. However, I have not found anything in my studies of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that condones this sort of thing. (This is not a slam in my Jewish brothers and sisters). I think this gives us all something to ponder, but we really need to stop pointing fingers and start extending hands of friendship.

Answer 5

Just the mere fact that both books, koran and the bible, are so easily used as tools to push the hatred of extremists on both sides tells me quite clearly that God has nothing to do with either religion at all.

Muslims and Christians have been hating and killing each other for 2000 years...they are not fighting over God, they are fighting over who gets the right, through might, to create God in the image which they most want God to fit into.

Both sides are fighting over whose BOOK will be used to control the thoughts and actions of their fellow humans...this has NOTHING to do with the will of god at all, it is 100% a matter of the will of MEN wanting to control other men.

Do you really think if there was a God he would let you people continue serving Evil by hating and killing each other for thousands of years? Pull your head out of the sand and open your eyes...you just might see the truth for once in your life.

Answer 6

In what way do you think God of the Holy Bible was acting toward these nations as such as Sodom and Gomorrah? I believe that the Holy Bible speaks two languages that are often misunderstood and this is that God is a very jealous God and he loves his chosen people the Jews very much and then when they sinned he was to punish them as shown in the Old Testament, until Noah builds the Ark and God sends the rainbow as a sign of his covenant not to harm any of his chosen people again, in which he did not until they sinned again against him by worshipping false Gods. And then in the New Testament, God proves that he is a very forgiving and loving God by sending his son in human form and then sacrificing his son as a lamb of God .

Answer 7

Hello Pagan, is you dont believe in the old testament then why do Muslims have Davvid and Moses in the Koran, sorry Fool, you should havve questioned the new testtamennt, You did set this questions for Christians, ttry questioning the Testament with Christ lol

Answer 8

the scriptures apply to destroying not people of faith in God, but people who were inherently evil, and worshipped in a satanic fashion. The ancient canaanites were vicious blood thirsty terrorists, commited every sin imaginable, and sacrificed their children to pagan gods. The canaanites were God's enemies, not sincere people of faith. If Israel did not kill their enemies, their enemies would have killed them instead. Unfortunately, Israel did not completely wipe them out, and they are still with us as irritants. They have changed their name to Palestinians. When Jesus comes back, they will all be wiped out forever as enemies of Israel. Jehovah is the only one, true God, and is the God of Israel as well.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

I wouldn't say the bible is a terrioist hand guide or anything, but Chirstians have done some messed up things in the past, and still are. But the catholic religion, like all religions, is based on love and forgiveness.

You can't take what's in the bible literally.

Answer 11

I believe her point is that one can cut and paste out of the holy book of ANY religion and paint a violent, intolerant picture when, in reality, none of these religions are inherently violent (Islam included)