Did you notice, when Moses arrived with the Commandments, 1st thing he did was order a mass killing ?

Question

So. Thou shalt not kill was the 1st commandment broken.
Does that make Moses a Mass Murderer ?

Answer 1

If anybody ordered mass murder, then he is a murderer. doesnt matter how you want to call him - mass murderer. murderer is a murderer. thats all. doesnt matter if he claims it was the will of god. he remains a murderer.
commandments are not for human welfare. but a tool to manipulate man into submission. if someone refuses, kill him. this is the history of prophetic religions from jerusalem.
these commandments are the cause of unrest in the whole area. in one form or the other, all the three religions have the same kind of commandments. moses gave 10, christianity & islam might have added or subrtacted a few here and there. but in essence they are still using this to make life a suffering rather than joy.
pity those believers and followers.

Answer 2

Mosus (peace be upon him) was the messenger of Allah the Almighty. He can not be a mass murderer. This is your own interpretation.
The event was;
When Mosus (peace be upon him) went to the mountain of 'Toor' the nation started worshipping a calf, mad by 'Saamri' , amagician.
When he came back, was shocked looking people worshiping something other than Allah the Almighty even in the presence of Allah's messanger.
That is why Allah ordered them to fight and kill each other and that was just due to their disobediency. Mosus had nothing to do with that. That was an order from our creator Allah the Almighty and Mosus (peace be upon him) passed that order to the nation.
So they fought and killed each other just to wash their major sin out. That was just in their favor only.

Answer 3

Actually it is thou shalt not murder. These Jews and other people that were slaves in Egypt were set free by God and set free from the pagan environment that they had to live for so long and when God saw that they were already worshipping a golden calf just as they did in Egypt, He became angry. They went right back to there idoletress ways.
We assume that murder and killing are the same and in our minds it is, but there is a deeper meaning. That commandment's true wording is murder and hate towards another is spiritual murder. It is alot easier to not actually kill someone than it is to not hate someone. So the only way to actually not break any commandment is by living by the 2 commandments Jesus mentions in the NT. Love your neighbor as yourself and Love the Lord with all you heart, mind and body. If we know Jesus personally, then we can follow those two with practice and maturity and obedience. God called for many to be killed but not because He is a God who hates people (He does hate sin) but because He can see the beginning from the end and forsaw that any of the hundreds of people that He commanded His servants to kill, were not going to ever obey and were actually going to spread more evil. The children who lived in these horrible environments that were killed were autimatically sent home to be with the Lord. So God was doing them a favor and set them free from the pagan, child sacrificing, devil enfluenced, societies that they lived in.

Answer 4

Read it again Moses did not order a mass killing.
Get it right! God ordered it.

Answer 5

Hi John B. The passage your refering to is in Exodus 32, and it happened when Moses came down with the Commandments from God and saw that the people had made a golden calf. They had created their own God.

This passage symbolizies the wrath of God. Yes, Mose led the sons of Levi to kill the unbelivers, (they killed about 3000 men that day Exodus 32:25-29) God is using this historical event to show us what happens to people when they follow false gospels and worship false gods (There is only one God and that is the God of Abraham) they will face death, which spiritualy is eternal damnation.In Exodus 32:1 we read:

"Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

Today much of the world is worshiping false Gods and following false gospels. In Exodus 32:7-10 We read of Gods wrath before Moses killed the unbelivers:

And the LORD said to Moses, “Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’” 9 And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! 10 Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.”

The great nation God is speaking of here is the nation of believers that is symbolized in Moses. In this passage God gives us a stern warning what will happen to those who follow false gospels and who worship false gods.

Answer 6

It also says "an eye for an eye", but Moses supposedly didn't kill them, wasn't this the will of God??

Answer 7

And God, who created all life on earth, decided one day to flush the toilet in heaven twice. Luckily, he told Noah to put two of each animal on a boat....

Answer 8

Mass murder, condoned by God, is a common thread throughout the Bible -

Answer 9

Yes . Old Testament can not be explained logically. Just believe it or not.

Answer 10

and hitler and the KKK, and "GOD" and Muslims who fight in the name of "allah" and the Crusades and the plagues. I could go on and on about what religion has done to civilizations and societies, but I don't think it would fit in this lifetime.