Thou Shalt not murder:
One of the Bible's 10 basic Pillars, the ten commandments, says: "Thou shalt not murder. (Exodus 20:13)." Yet, we see GOD Almighty supposedly also commanded the killing of every single breathing creature from humans and animals!
Kill everything that "breathes" from humans and animals!
Deuteronomy 20:16
However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
Apparently, it is one of the Bible's foundations to mass-murder every single human and animal from the defeated enemy.
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ***.
2007-02-14 19:45:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
what about the egyptians ---they were aganist them too
2007-02-14 22:02:03 · update #1
the bible is man written book
2007-02-16 03:47:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you fail to understand is that these people were enemies of God, and an unauthorized evil remnant of Noah's flood.
Somehow, they survived, only to wind up opposing the chosen people of God.
These evil guys "had no reason to live."
So God ordered the Israelites to destroy every trace of their existence.
The underlying concept here though, is wrath due to sin.
In old testament times, the world was totally lacking God's grace, hence deserved nothing but his wrath.
God sent his son, through his chosen people, the Israelites, to change things.
Once Jesus became man and redeemed us, we became people of grace.
God's wrath was turned aside, and through Christ and his church, we received his blessings, instead.
The world has never been the same, since.
2007-02-15 05:42:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be prepared for the best of xian worming. They'll say that was the God of the OT, we follow the God of the NT. New covenant and all that.
Total b.s.
2007-02-15 04:15:59 · answer #3 · answered by Brendan G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes well that just about sums up the bible in general. It makes no sense.
2007-02-15 04:27:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a difference between killing and murder.
2007-02-15 06:59:29 · answer #5 · answered by q_d_pie7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋