If your commanding General told you to kill all the Iraqi villagers, including children, would you do it?

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Now substitute the word "GOD" for the words "COMMANDING GENERAL."




"Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ***." (I Samuel 15:2-3)

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Answer 1

That is one hard ethical question.......I don't think I would be able to do it. Whatever would happen to me because of my disobedience is another thing. But I would not be able to kill children.

Answer 2

Deuteronomy 25:17 "Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt,(18)"how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God.(19)Therefore it shall be, when the Lord your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under Heaven. You shall not forget."

Answer 3

Hmm maybe i will not follow the command that the General give.
I will try to negotiate with the General and see whether it help. As poor children and helpless women are innocent. If he General still persistent in order me to kill i will maybe hide the children and helpless women somewhere and report to the General that i Killed them inorder to save their lives. In war they say no mercy
Only through mouth with empty talk. Until the real war occur then they know that how was war like. No body likes war as they only want to lives in peace. Stay out of war as we are the same kinds
Human Kinds All the humans had love in them, even for a really bad person also had love in them just that they have not find the other side of themsleves........ They will i believes one day.

Answer 4

Are you trying to equate the Creator of the Universe with a military leader? Maybe, and I'm saying just maybe, God knows what is best. Try reading the whole account. There was something in those days called Nephelim, giant, evil beings, which were hybrids between fallen angels and earth women. God said to kill everything to destroy a corrupted gene pool.

Answer 5

This is response to the people of Amalek having done the same to the Israelites as they fled from Egypt; only the Amalekites apparently didn't bother to fight with the warriors, but concentrated on the children, women, old and feeble.

Answer 6

In WW1, WW2, and Korea, if our military took fire from a city, they fired on that city, often leaving craters where it used to be. The current rules of engagement allow ruthless hoods to launch attacks from residential areas because they think will not be caught. In the old way, residents would not allow attacks to be launched from their areas because they knew everything would be destroyed if they did. The enemies in those wars soon learned that if they launched attacks from towns their friends, neighbors and relatives would suffer for it.

Answer 7

If I have dedicated myself to the servitude of an army be it earthly or heavenly, I must as a keeper of my word must do what ever my master or Lord tells me.

Numbers 30:2
When a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said.

Answer 8

Now see...that is my predicament. I LOVE to CAUSE pain, but not recieve only if I don't get in trouble. Only problem is my RELIGION says it will come back threefold. Now I wonder...if I kill 100 people...will I be killed 300 times? Or just the once? ; D

Answer 9

Why would the commanding general be giving me--a battlefield grunt--any order at all? I think it would be some nutso second louie....

Answer 10

No. I listen to no one but God. And God says to love one another and thou shall not kill.