What kind of God would advocate "dashing babies on rocks"?

Question

Psalms 137:9 Here god commands that infants should be “dashed upon the rocks”.

Answer 1

You have made this point in your previous question....

Answer 2

Happy [shall he be] that taketh and dasheth thy little ones
against the stones.
] That takes the infants from their mothers' breasts, or out of their arms, and dashes out their brains against a "rock", as the word F11 signifies; which, though it may seem a piece of cruelty, was but a just retaliation; the Babylonians having done the same to the Jewish children, and is foretold elsewhere should be done to theirs, (Isaiah 13:16) . Nor is this desired from a spirit of revenge, but for the glory of divine justice, and that such a generation of cruel creatures might be rooted out of the earth; see (Revelation 2:2,3) . Some allegorically understand this of crushing and mortifying the first motions of sin in the heart; but such a sense seems to have no place here.

This was during a time of war...saying that vegeance was not the right answer...and the people were feeling just...by the killings of children...and seeing themselves,just, in God's eyes...kind of saying an eye for an eye is not the answer

Answer 3

Once again, Brooke, read the entire Psalm, and try to see it from the point of view of the prisoners who were lamenting here. Nowhere does it say that dashing babies on rocks was God's idea.....

Also, I think Caveman above me makes a darn good point about abortion. For all those who use this verse to condemn God ought to think long and hard about their own hypocrisy before pointing their accusing fingers at Christians, who are trying to tell them that aborting (murdering) their innocent children while they are still in the womb is sinful...SHAME on you!!

Answer 4

I AM SO SICK OF PEOPLE TWISTING THIS TEXT TO DEPICT GOD AS A BABY KILLER I COULD PUKE.

If you knew how to read with an open mind and make sense of it you would know this was the author telling Babylon

"You will deserve it when someone gives back to you that which you did to the Israelites."

This is a lament for all the violence that occurred and which might occur in the future.

It is NOT a command from God to kill babies. GOT THAT??

I find it odd that people who use this text as a negative verse against God will go elsewhere and post messages advocating the right to have abortions. What difference is there between bashing babies brains against rocks or crushing their brains in the womb?

BRAINS ARE BRAINS no matter where they are.

SHEESH go back to school and learn to read.

Answer 5

a very sick one.
the same one who advocates things like
"i will corrupt your seed and spreading dung upon your faces"(malachi 2:3)
or
"suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."(1st Timothy 2:12)
or
"and thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the lord thy god hath given thee."(deuterononmy 28:53)

and the list goes on and on but basically the god of the bible is a pretty messed up one.

Answer 6

Isaiah 13:15-18 recommends the same thing.

Where is the compassion?

Answer 7

Sounds like the same kind of religious rhetoric that caused the Salem witch trials

Answer 8

Good question. The answer is a vicious and angry god not worthy of worship.

Answer 9

he speaking of the childrean of babalon...Right??do u not know this is satans seat?the childrean of that devil.u r unlearned in the Holy scriptures

Answer 10

That would be bible-god Brooke. Hell of a role model isn't he?

Answer 11

God didn't write those statements; man worte them.