(Deuteronomy 13:15)
"Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword."
2007-01-27 15:04:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You will get so many answers to this you're e-mail will go in shock. I see the 'sword' as more of a strict ruler, not an actual sword. As in a new leader coming to the city, and rebuilding the laws so that there will be less corruption. Everyone has a different interpretation, so it's up to you to decide what it means to you.
2007-01-27 15:09:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
12-18 is the thought and this is part of the instructions to Israel about what to do with false worship and false worshippers within Israel.
When a city worships false Gods within the theocracy of Israel this is what is to be done. The false worship must be completely exterminted because it acts like a disease. Medically if you have a gangrenous limb it must be amputated quickly or the whole body dies. Israel was a type of the individual relationship we have with our Father. Evil must be destroyed. It destroys life therefore love dictates it must be destroyed.
Now many who do not understand will see this as a very cruel command. But the lives of those false worshippers, the real living souls returned to Father as all souls do and they are not necessarily lost, only their bodies died. From Father's point of view no one actually died but it is an example of the severity of sin and evil and the way it must be totally eliminated. A cancerous rot, an epidemic of destruction within the organization of a theocracy serving the One True God.
Accomodate it? Tolerate it? No way could that have been so for God will not abide evil. Good thing too because evil is death.
Our God is a great God. Worthy of reverence and fear. It is only He who can destroy both the body and the soul. He is righteous in all His ways and is the Champion of the lowly and the Guardian of the innocent. Deliverer of those in the chains of sin. Giver of life. Maker of all things. Most High God.
He deserves to be honored and obeyed.
2007-01-27 23:28:05 · answer #2 · answered by David P 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Destroy with the sword a sharp weapon. It means destroy with the sword litearly.
2007-01-27 23:10:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
sounds like judgement has been passed on that city
2007-01-27 23:08:02 · answer #4 · answered by sdr35hw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE BLADE OF THE SWORD.
2007-01-27 23:08:04 · answer #5 · answered by lady_blu_iz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is the word of God----
2007-01-27 23:08:17 · answer #6 · answered by TS 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋