Anyone else find it baffling that God gave Moses the 10 commandments, one of which was..?

Question

....thou shall not kill, and then God tells him to kill all the nonbelievers?

"Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord's side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men” (Exodus 32:26-28).

Answer 1

do as i say not as i do

Answer 2

No, first of all the Israelites were following those laws already, and those laws far precede Egypt, they are directly from the Sumerians. Now think about Abraham, the founder of Judaism. He was a Sumerian. Lived in Ur of the Chaldees, which was in lower Mesopotamia, which was Sumer. Upper Mesopotamia was Babylon. The laws came out of Sumer, the very first known civilization, and spread from there to Babylon, to Egypt, etc. Abraham's family name has been found all over the area, from Sumer to Babylon and beyond, indicating that his family was very powerful, very wealthy, and probably had a tradition of being Sumerian priests. Jewish tradition teaches that these laws were being followed already by the Israelites long before they were written down at Mt. Sinai through Moses. And this would be because Abraham had long ago brought them out from and passed down those laws.

Answer 3

I think that when god said "You shall not kill" he meant to kill sencesly, like planing to kill some one because of a fude or something like that, but If your Really need to kiil some one, for a cause, a reasonable cause, like defending your land, liberty or stuff like that. I have to point something out though, whe dont know if (Exodus 32:26-28) is really, the word of god. I mean there are Many other gospells that the Bible left behing, The vatican just took the ones that kinda made sence, in many times they contradict eachother, so its hard to determine which is holly word and which is the word of man.

Answer 4

The God of Moses is Satan.

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. John 3:14
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ John 1:17

Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven John 6:32

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers
John 10:7

O fool and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken; Luke 24:25

Answer 5

I found it baffling from the first time i cracked open a Bible to a page that wasn't in the day's carefully pre-selected mass readings. AFAIK, the RCC (my (parents') sect of choice) doesn't pretend to be able to resolve the matter. But i wonder about those Xians who feel compelled to justify it.

They try to soften it up by claiming that the word is "murder." Aside from that dishonest translation (which proves, incidentally, that they have higher morals than their god (that's a complement, Xians)), how does genocide not qualify as "murder"?

How is it not murder to kill 3000 of your friends, family, and neighbors because they made an idol to represent YHWH (Ex 32:4,5)? (That they broke the 2nd commandment doesn't justify the sentence; it was an utterly victimless crime, unless you count YHWH's insanely jealous, bafflingly delicate, bruised ego.)

How is it not murder to go back to a defeated enemy and kill all the women, little boys, and babies (sparing the girls only to rape them)?

How is it not murder to invade a foreign land (on the grounds that a couple dozen seminomadic ancestors set up camp there more than 4 centuries earlier) and kill every single man, woman, and child in the cities?

How is it not murder to all but exterminate one of your own provinces? How is it not murder to kill every man, woman, boy, and baby in a town for the "crime" of *not* participating in the genocide of said province?

How is it not murder to go out and exterminate a nation because that nation's ancestors attacked your ancestors 4 centuries earlier?

Believers love to quote "no excuse" at us from Romans 1:20. I'm wondering when they're going to tell their bloody god, "No more excuses!" Baffling indeed.

Answer 6

The ten commandments are in the old testament. The old testament was gods first attempt to be friends with a sinful mankind. To do that he prescribed a lot of rules and requirements wich if obeyed would make the person acceptable to god. The problem was that no human was capable of obeying all the rules. So god tried again, this time by sending his son, Jesus. Jesus had no sin, yet took the punishment for mankinds sin when he died on the cross. The prior arrangement (obeying every rule) was replaced by gods forgiveness being available on an individual by individual basis if you can sincerelly state before a witness that you believe Jesus is the son of god, and that you repent of your sins.

Answer 7

It is neither ironic nor weird. You are repeating a "question" of ignorance that is much older than you are. The actual command is "Thou shall not do murder." The Bible is very clear that the one guilty of a capital offense should be executed, not kept around for 10-20 years while lawyers argue whether, where, and when. The STATE may execute the convicted; the individual may not.
The commands you allude to were given to Israel directly from the Judge Himself: these people were given an extra four centuries to shape up. Instead, they devolved into killing their infant children in the name of "prosperity." In other words, THEY were the murderers. God had passed the judgment on them and the Israelites were merely the executioners hired by the Judge to do the STATE's will.

Answer 8

This isn't ALL the unbelievers. These were involved in direct rebellion against God. God said "You shall not murder", but there were also punishments for disobedience against God, which included death. Lets put things in context. Nothing baffles me more than someone who points their bony finger in Gods face and accuses Him of being injust, as if they had all wisdom and understanding, and the moral standard of exellence.

Answer 9

"Thou shall not kill...except when I say its okay." He left that second part out by accident. Funnier is the fact that God gave two sets of Ten Commandments in Exodus and that Christians don't even follow any of God's other laws as laid out in Leviticus.

Answer 10

You left out what it says before that. God's people (whom He had just barely rescued from persecution from the Egyptians) were repaying His kindness by making and worshiping false gods that were made of gold. God's first and most important commandment He gave to Moses was: Thou shalt not have any other gods before me. That is exactly what those people were doing; spitting in the face of God by worshiping false gods. God intended to destroy them all, but Moses peaded with Him not to , so He did not. Then when Moses went back down the mountain and saw that the people would not repent from worshiping these false gods, he did what the Lord wanted to do and killed those who were blatantly rejecting God.

Answer 11

Gods aloud to kill, he said if u eat from that tree u will die. God can do what ever he wants. We r not God. All u really have to see is u don't really die, u go to another place. Heaven or hell. So in a way he didn't kill anyone.