Would some atheist please show me in the Bible where Christians are commanded to "kill thousands".?

Question

I've never come across that particular passage of scripture, but every atheists seems certain that it's there.

Waiting . . . . . . .

Answer 1

Nowhere in the Bible, does it tell Christians to kill even one. For all the experts who answered before me, there are no Christians in the Bible before the book of Acts.

Answer 2

First off it's trick question because there were no Christians by the end of the Bible, Christianity didn't have that name for years later.

Next God telling the Isrealites to kill thousands:

Joshua 6:2 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.

Joshua 6:24 Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD's house.

God was with these murderers.

Thought you would have read this thing for being so preachy.

Answer 3

"Christians" Indeed didn't become part of the vocabulary until after Jesus. But Christians are always quick to claim an unbroken revelation from Adam to St. John. In fact if the OT isn't God's word then Jesus isn't Messiah by your standards. So to dodge the immorality of God by saying he told the Jews to commit infanticide and not Christians is nonsense. They were beievers obeying their revelation just like you Christians and from the same God, so you say.

So read Numbers 31. After killing all the adult Midianite males the captains of Israel return to the camp with all the captive women and children in tow. 17-18: “Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.” So here we see the soldiers are rewarded with the virgins, but married women and male children are slaughtered. Apologists point out the prequel of Numbers 25 as justification of God's orders through Moses for this war crime. the Nazi's justified the Holocaust by pointing to the wicked offense of the Jews (and we have no evidence of such offenses, nor reason to believe that the Israelites had just cause for this genocide other than the say so of the person who writes Numbers. In any case, how is that different from Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants using past offenses as justification for bombing streets full of children? We see the same today form the Shia and Sunni in Iraq. Civilized moderns reject this kind of cold-blooded revenge, especially the slaughter of prisoners. Of course Christians apologize for this and justify it because this immoral act is supposedly ordered by their god, where as an atheist I know if it happened, it was ordered by a very human and cold-blooded butcher and not god told anyone to put women and children to the sword.

I don't know if this was thousands. I would have to assume the death of the first born of Egypt was thousands, don't you. Christians again justify this saying pharaoh caused it by resisting Moses. That's a good reason to kill pharaoh, but not moral grounds to kill all the first born in Egypt.

If you're a believer you probably have the believer's disease of being blind to immorality when it's one of your guys. It's like some Americans who are okay with Abu Gharaib, though since the Iraqis didn't attack us in 9/11 I don't see how that's justified as revenge. But I know believers can justify anything and everything they do is just in their own eyes. I think scripture mentions that too.

And given all of the other examples you've been given, I'm guessing you just believe the Bible is God's word, but haven't really read it, or yo skip the confusing parts that paint your god in a bad light, like the other Christians who answered and have clearly never cracked the book.

Answer 4

Deuteronomy 7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

Joshua
8:22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
8:25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
8:26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

You should try actually reading the bible.

Answer 5

There is great confusion regarding the implications, and interpretations of religious doctrines of any discipline. However it is with crystal clarity that these same sources, That were created/manipulated to empower those that wish to control the masses of population of this planet through ignorance and the inability of these peoples to come to the realization that any endeavor for salvation, enlightenment or divinity sought externally is an agreement to enslavement.
The only true source for comprehension, self-determination of purpose and truth is obtained by the bravest of heart and those courageous enough to look within themselves and see that there is no 'out there' out there, the universe reflects back to the observer that which is within!

Answer 6

Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)

Answer 7

Actually there is that whole part where god tells moses to go out with the ark of the covenant and destroy all the tribes who do not believe... remember that bit? And then of course there's Jericho, etc

Answer 8

Not xians, but his followers:
Deut 20:16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
20:17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

1Sam 15:3 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 ***.
15:8 And he (Saul) took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
But Saul kept Agag alive and so was god happy about that? Nooooo:
15:11 (God talking) It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

Answer 9

Luke 19:27 But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay [them] before me.


From the New Testament even.... the words of JC himself.


Here's a different translation of the same verse:
But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me."

Answer 10

2 Chronicles 15:13
Whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

There are billions of us. Deuteronomy 13:6-10 backs it up too.