Killing of innocents permitted in the bible?

Question

Ezekiel 9

5- As I listened, he said to the others, "Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion.
6 Slaughter old men, young men and maidens, WOMEN and CHILDREN, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

Killing of innocents permitted in the bible?

Beheading

10 So I will not look on them with pity or spare them, but I will bring down on their own heads what they have done."

If Christians says Jesus is God then why this violent nature?

Most Gracious Allah(swt)(God) Almighty, All Mercilful.

Answer 1

All humanity is now involved in a great controversy between Christ and Satan regarding the character of God, His law, and His sovereignty over the universe. This conflict originated in heaven when a created being, endowed with freedom of choice, in self-exaltation became Satan, God's adversary, and led into rebellion a portion of the angels. He introduced the spirit of rebellion into this world when he led Adam and Eve into sin. This human sin resulted in the distortion of the image of God in humanity, the disordering of the created world, and its eventual devastation at the time of the worldwide flood. Observed by the whole creation, this world became the arena of the universal conflict, out of which the God of love will ultimately be vindicated. To assist His people in this controversy, Christ sends the Holy Spirit and the loyal angels to guide, protect, and sustain them in the way of salvation. (Rev. 12:4-9; Isa. 14:12-14; Eze. 28:12-18; Gen. 3; Rom. 1:19-32; 5:12-21; 8:19-22; Gen. 6-8; 2 Peter 3:6; 1 Cor. 4:9; Heb. 1:14.)

The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. Choose life in Jesus Christ.

Answer 2

The Book of Ezekiel comes from the Old Testament, as so has nothing to do with Jesus. The description you give is one of Ezekiel's prophecies about how God will punish the people of Judah for their sins - the implication being that they are not innocents and that the wrath of God is their punishment for failing to turn away from their lives of sin.

The line "I will bring down on their own heads what they have done" does not specifically mean beheading, only that there will be punishment for their sins.

The resurrection of Jesus is believed by Christians to be the beginning of a new Covenant between God and Man, where sins will be forgiven rather than punished if the sinner repents, as the suffering of Jesus during his crucifixion was a symbolic punishment for all of mankinds sins. Therefore the "blood and wrath" God of the Old Testament becomes the "loving and forgiving" God of the New Testament, since all the necessary punishment has been meted out.

Answer 3

Perhaps it should state" And 'whatever' created god in their own IMAGE." not the other way round, as though 'man' is something special - we certainly are not using the intelligence certain people's 'god', so called gifted us to very much use, are we?

Who in their right mind puts an obvious social predatory 'ape'(man) on a pedestal above all others, religious FANATICS of ANY description( the following two are examples), wether 'happy clapper Bible belt' or so called 'muslim extreamist and off shoots', and takes the words written many years ago as the be all and end all, and apply the intelligence we were gifted with to help solve problems, rather than create them.


This is some who is 'fed up' with all forms of petty bigotry and crass do gooder type stupidity. Where one group is willing to compromise but another not.

Answer 4

mono theist religions have been used to kill.
All leaders claim that "god is on our side".
All those that do not follow the god may be killed. The old testaments is full of killings.
If you think that freedom of religion is a human right, then indeed all monotheist religions are dangerous in that they often call for the killing of those who oppose their expansion. They say that those ones are sinners. And we tolerant democrats way above them, know that they are innocents seeking their way.

Answer 5

Maybe women and children are not as innocent as you would like to think. They grow up and then become the ones who rebell against God. I have seen videos of Muslim Children chanting in schools "Death to America, Death to Israel" What are they going to be like when they are adults.
I noticed that you left out verse 9 which tells why God will not spare them or have pity on them. Something Muslims tend to do frequently, they emphasize what Israel is doing to them, but just seem to overlook the reason why Israel is retaliating.

Answer 6

Christians don't say that Jesus is God.

The quotes are from the old testament and Ezekiel is identified by some Muslims as Dhul-Kifl mentioned in Qur'anic verse.

Answer 7

It seems as though WHATEVER is written in the bible can be interpreted any way. If you like it, quote it and use it as proof because it is God's word. If you don't like it, say it was written by men who lost the original meaning in translation.
In other words, the bible is useless as a reference.

Answer 8

There are no innocents!

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;


If you don’t believe someone, it means you think that he is a liar. The Bible says that those who don’t believe God accuse Him of lying. Martin Luther said, "What greater insult ...can there be to God, than to not believe His promises."

Answer 9

Not worth answering - yet another slur on the Bible.

Answer 10

He is God and He is just. This is God's world and there is nothing anybody can do, I don't understand why people question His judgement.