does god smite people?

Question

what is 'smiting'?

Answer 1

When Ananias and his wife Sapphira conspired together to lie to God, they both dropped dead, one after the other, at the feet of the Apostle Peter. (see Acts 5:1-11)

Answer 2

When God kills people, it's called "smiting."

See...well, basically the entire Old Testament. In the NT, Jesus takes over, but he only threatens to smite the wicked, i.e. those who dissed him, at some indeterminate date in the near future when "the Son of Man shall come in the glory of the Lord."

Really "smite" is just an archaic word for "strike," and seems to have its root in old Gothic words meaning "throw" or "rub." But the sense of "slay in combat" is indeed specifically biblical in origin, first attested circa 1200. Smitten in the sense of "inspired with love" is from 1663, and refers in all likelihood to the action of Cupid's arrows. See Skeat's Etymology.

Answer 3

Yes and it won't be long and he will do like he did before the flood.
Matthew 24:37 Says just as they were before the flood.

That shows that now we could make nuclear weapons and kill every kind of flesh. So God will step in and stop men from doing this. But the wicked men will die.
(Matthew 24:21-22) 21 for then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again. 22 In fact, unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen ones those days will be cut short.

Answer 4

Well, he's trying to cut down. He's got it down to 2 smites a week, now. He's a fully fledged member of Smiters Anonymous.

Answer 5

1. to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon: She smote him on the back with her umbrella.
2. to deliver or deal (a blow, hit, etc.) by striking hard.
3. to strike down, injure, or slay: His sword had smitten thousands.
4. to afflict or attack with deadly or disastrous effect: smitten by polio.
5. to affect mentally or morally with a sudden pang: His conscience smote him.
6. to affect suddenly and strongly with a specified feeling: They were smitten with terror.
7. to impress favorably; charm; enamor: He was smitten by her charms.
8. to strike; deal a blow.

Based on the above definitions, yes, God smites people.

Answer 6

We do a good job of that ourselves.

GOD Keeps us (tries to) from wiping ourselves out.

No, GOD is not Mad at us.
GOD sent HIS Son Jesus to Prove it too.
GOD Loves us.

devil hates all Human Beings.
devil smites us.
Hard.
Ditto......................

Answer 7

"So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth". - Jesus (Matt. 13:49)

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