"Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished." ~Isaiah 13:15-16
"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." ~Psalm 137:9
"Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up." ~Hosea 13:16
2006-11-21 08:59:45 · 27 answers · asked by Wisdom in Faith 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
simple.
offer them heaven and theyll overlook any atrocity.
the christian god gives the best door prize. do people care what he does? no. all they care about is kissin a*s enough to get themselves into heaven.
its alot like the suicide bombers in Iraq. do they care about anything else but their goal? (heaven) no. do they care about the people they kill or the lives they destroy? no. all they care about is obtaining their goal.
all they want is to go to heaven. their god could be(and is) worse than hitler, the biggest mass murderer in the universe....and they wouldnt care...
2006-11-21 09:02:49 · answer #1 · answered by johnny_zondo 6 · 7⤊ 5⤋
The verses from Isaiah and Hosea are about what the punishment was or would be to those people who had rebelled against God. Note in Hosea 12:16 how it was talking about the peoples of the nation of Samaria who "hath rebelled against her God". God is loving, and so He will correct His disobedient children, as any good parent would to their disobedient child. As to the verse from Psalm, you have not listed the previous verse:
Psalm 137:8 KJV
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
God was using Israel as His vessel to repay Babylon for her evil deeds. Again, God loves us enough to discipline us. It is the lazy, unloving parent who simply lets their child run wild, is it not? The loving parent should make an effort to discipline their children in order to bring them to obedience. Do I like being punished by my parents? Perhaps not at the time. But afterwards, even years afterwards, can I not look back and be appreciative for their efforts? Punishment is for one's own good, though it may not seem so at the time of the fact. God is a loving God; He won't let His children simply do whatever. I pray that I would be broken if I stray! God bless!
2006-11-21 09:18:03 · answer #2 · answered by eefen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
don't forget
Samuel 15:2,3
2 This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt.
3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ ”
Numbers 31:17,18
17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man.
18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
Deuteronomy 20:16
16 However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
2006-11-21 09:04:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is a good God sorry you can't see that........and you need to read the whole book or chapter not just pick verses out most people who do that can make it say whatever they want .........i don't understand everything in the Bible but i trust the author and i don't mean the men who actually wrote it but the one who gave them the words
2006-11-21 09:14:54 · answer #4 · answered by Lost Angel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is the context of these verses that you must look at before jumping to a conclusion. God was not ordering these actions; He was fortelling them for His people.
He was warning the nation of Israel what would befall them if they continued to disobey Him and His law covenant: God would remove His protection from them and allow outside nations to conquer them, i.e. Assyria and Rome, most notably.
2006-11-21 09:05:39 · answer #5 · answered by danni_d21 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you put those verses back into context, read the entire book from which they came, and discern who the author was and whether the writing was poetry, history, teaching, etc. you'll come up with a different point of view. Throwing around individual verses like that to make a point is a waste of time and poor scholarship.
2006-11-21 09:04:57 · answer #6 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I wont say I understand it... all I'll say is I trust God's judgement. God doesnt like everything we do either but good thing He can still love us.
If I can look at that and think "Wow God is bad, I hate Him now" can I really even expect He can look at ME and still love me? I do a lot of things He doesnt approve of but He still loves me, I should return the sentiment.
2006-11-21 09:05:17 · answer #7 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i am not a christian, but even i know that god didn't order that.
it was prophesy. a warning of what would happen if things continued the way they were.
(although in the old testament...) honestly i've never understood most of the things that i've read.
2006-11-21 09:11:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 08:35:32 · answer #9 · answered by felio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At least He is not a God that will come down and take human form and say "This is my Son with whom I am well pleased to be killed so that I can forgive those who rebel against me." Ain't that more stupid of your God?
2006-11-21 09:09:32 · answer #10 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Those passages are prophecies of what was to come not what God ORDERED. Pleased don't misinterpret the Bible then use yor misinterpretation to try and discredit it. The only one who is discredited is you.
2006-11-21 09:06:20 · answer #11 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋