Was Jesus peaceful?

Question

In the Bible, Jesus said, "If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father, He and I are one."

So, Jesus = God.

But, here's what God did:

Genesis 6-8
God drowns everyone, except for Noah and his family. An estimated 200 million civilians die.

Genesis 19:24-25
God destroys the cities of Sodom and Gomorra ‘and all the valley’ and kills all inhabitants with brimstone and fire.

Exodus 12:29-30
God kills all the firstborn in Egypt. “There was no home where there was not someone dead.” (Ex 12:30)

Exodus 14:24-28
God drowns the Pharao’s army by dropping the Red Sea on it.

Deuteronomy 2:21-22
God ‘destroys’ two ethnic groups, the Zamzummites and the Horites, in what the UN would call ‘ethnic cleansing’ today

Joshua 10:10-11
God throws large hailstones at fleeing soldiers from the city of Gibeon. “More of them died from the hailstones than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.”

1 Samuel 5-6
After the Philistines have stolen the Ark, God strikes the people of the cities of Ashdod, Gath and Ekron with tumors. ‘Both young and old’ are affected. In Beth Semesh, God kills seventy more men for looking the Ark of the Covenant.

2 Kings 1:9-12
God incinerates two captains and one hundred soldiers who come to take Elijah

2 Kings 2:24
God sends two bears that ‘maul’ 42 youths who were making fun of Elisha’s baldness

2 Kings 19:35
God sends in an angel to kill 185,000 Assyrian soldiers in their sleep

2 Chronicles 14:12-13
God destroys the Cushites (Ethiopians). “Such a great number of Cushites fell that they could not recover.”

2 Chronicles 20:22-24
God tricks three enemy armies into fighting each other. “When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped”

Various verses
God kills many individual sinners who are mentioned by name: Er, Onan, Nadab, Abihu, Nabal, Uzzah, King Jeroboam, King Jeroboam’s son, King Azariah, King Jehoram and King Uzziah



So tell me.

Do you say Jesus was violent or peaceful, or do you deny he is God?

How do you explain?

Answer 1

It took over 100 years for Noah to build the ark. He asked as many people that he could to get on the boat. None agreed.

Sodom could have been spared if 10 righteous people were found in it. As it stands, they chose to not obey god and died because of it.

Pharaoh could have saved his people if he had obeyed God and let the Israeli's leave.

If the others would have surrendered to the Israelis, and left the land that was promised to the Israeli's, then God would have let them live (the Horites, Zamzummites, and the soldiers from the city of Gibeon)

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What you see is a pattern where people chose to disobey God and then suffered the consequences of their decisions.

Now, what does that mean for you today?

Let's say I see an evil man drain a pool and fill it with corrosive acid. He even goes so far as to throw a piece of wood in it to watch it dissolve.

You and your friends come along and want to go swimming. The pool looks wonderful and you are yearning to dive in head first.

But, you see me screaming at you warning you not to jump in the pool because it is filled with acid.

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Now, what do you decide to do? Do you blow me off as a kook? Test the pool by jumping in it? Or do you walk away?

God has given you a warning. The future holds nothing nice for those that reject Jesus and his sacrifice for you.

I am the least worthy to have deserved it. So, if he will save me, he will save you.

Answer 2

Jesus was and is very peaceful, but he will punish a child if they misbehave just like you