Hosea 13:16. "Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up."
Throughout the Bible, God smites those who do not believe in him or those who do not follow his commands. Here we have the grotesque description of infants dashed to pieces and pregnant women ripped up. Whatever rebellious nature an infant's father or mother may have had, it bears no justice to an innocent child or to an unborn fetus who could not possibly have rebelled against God, much less understood him. Anyone who claims to love such a God, must accept infanticide as one of God's ugly revenges.(See also Psalms 137:9)
2007-07-01 05:13:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well behaved women rarely make history.
Blessed be.
2007-07-01 05:16:47 · answer #1 · answered by angafeabeta 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all you need to find out the truth about the bible. Who wrote it, really. Find the missing books of it - read the 'Nag Hammadi'. Read a Gnostic book by elaine pagels. THis will open your mind from thinking the bible is the one and only answer to all things. It's a ruse and incomplete. Biggest scam laid upon man in human history. So much information about the 'Truth' is coming out everywhere. Wake up, open your mind and read, watch and learn. Watch 'The Secret', study Elaine Pagels works, look into earth sciences (Paganism). doesn't mean you need to believe in any of thes things but investigation will offer you much wisdom. Why not? The god in the bible is a merciless ____ and that is not the truth. We are all loved and those in power knew the natural power of woman and needed to quash, suppress the woman in order to rule the world. Turn the world from matriarchal rule to patriarchal rule. And, aire apparent, it doesn't work! Women are far more advanced by nature and need to wake back up to this naturalness if the world and every individual is going to change into the good stuff - peace, love, harmony, i.e. HEAVEN. Right here on earth. Check it out. Good luck
2007-07-01 05:28:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would it be wrong of God to end the life of a child, if knowing everything (as God does) He did this knowing that this child would grow up to kill millions of people? Or perhaps the death of a child has a different meaning to God. Perhaps God takes this child to be with Him in heaven and spares this child from an agonizing life in this world. We cannot know the mind of God and to doubt His ways is nothing but sinful pride and human arrogance. You choose to look at God through humanistic eyes. To understand God you must view Him through Spiritual eyes. God is Love and incapable of fault or wrong doing. Do you think it was wrong for God to judge Sodom and Gomorrah so harshly? Perhaps this world would be even more perverse than it already is today, perhaps children would be available at the local market and sold as sex slaves to anyone who wanted to buy one. What God did may have saved us from much pain and suffering. He did this because He loves us and wants to spare us the pain and suffering of our sin. Gods plan for humanity is perfect, as He is perfect. It is our understanding and comprehension of God which is flawed.
God Bless You....Peace.
2007-07-01 08:26:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hosea is prophesying about Samaria being destroyed by the Assyrians, which it later was. Psalm 137 is a prophesy against Babylon for destroying The Temple and bringing Israel into captivity in Babylon. They were later destroyed, as per the prophesy there, by the Medes and Persians. For someone who styles themselves a scholar and preacher in their profile, you don't seem to know much, do you?
2016-05-20 02:07:42 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is taken not only out of the context of the text it's also taken out of the context of the time frame these verses were written. To actually understand this you'd have to learn a lot more about history as well as the situations of the time. One verse does not encompass the Bible or (even less) God.
2007-07-01 05:20:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mary, Deborah, Lydia, Esther, and Samuel's mother weren't rebellious off the top of my head.
angafeabeta, hitler made history he's not a very happy being right now. Making history isn't as important as you've been led to believe.
2007-07-01 05:30:24 · answer #6 · answered by Rossonero NorCal SFECU 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Uhhh... God didn't personally rip up those people. Their enemies did. God's prophets were pleading for the parents to please accept His protection. But they were too busy burning their children and "sacrificing" them to heathen gods like Moloch.
2007-07-01 05:31:00 · answer #7 · answered by shirleykins 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this was a holy war.
the concept wasnt foreign three thousand years ago, and its not foreign today. god-sanctioned wars are always brutal, because whose other permission do they need?
2007-07-01 05:19:44 · answer #8 · answered by Ezra M 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
do not despair he sent his only son to die for you. God likes to kill kids even his own its just his style.
2007-07-01 05:17:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
ya, god's like that!
2007-07-01 05:19:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋