"....According to the Tannaïte Rabbis, MOSES therefore had ordered the Israelites to kill all women older than three years and a day, because they were [virgins and] "suitable for having sexual relations." [138]...."
Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive as sex slaves. When Moses learns that they left some alive, he angrily says: "Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the female children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." So they went back and did as Moses instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins . ----(Numbers 31:1-54)
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"While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was discovered gathering wood on the Sabbath day. Those who caught him at it brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly. But they kept him in custody, for there was no clear decision as to what should be done with him.
Then the Lord said to Moses, "This man shall be put to death; let the whole community stone him outside the camp."
So the whole community led him outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had commanded Moses." Numbers 15:32-36 NAB
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2007-10-16 02:52:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes. God is good, but also judgmental. God laid out strict laws for the Israelites back then. The punishment was clear. In Number 15, Moses actually was second guessing the law. Moses knew that the Law said to kill the man, but he didn't really want to. Since God is perfect, he can't go back on the laws that he set.
God commanded Moses to kill all the people. These people were very sexually immoral, and disease was probably rampant. God is smart, he didn't want his people to get disease, so he told the Israelites to kill them all. This is justified because the religion of the people living there was pagan, and disobeyed God's rules.
God is good and just. He expects people to follow his laws. Because he is good, his laws are for our benefit. If you don't follow the laws, God judges you.
2007-10-16 03:02:35 · answer #1 · answered by m m 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because God wanted the Israelites to be a nation that followed him and abided by His commandments their were some quick consequences for sin.
You have misquoted the bible in Numbers 31:1 - 54. Moses was questioning the Israelites as to why they left the women alive. As harsh as this may sound there were two reasons why God instructed them all to be slaughtered. Firstly, Because the Israelites were to abide by God's law they were not to get involved with other countries in marriage or in practices. If you go through the bible you will see in many areas where men married and women married people from other countries. It wasn't about the color or race. It was about their idol worship. God is clear that we should have no other God's before them.
This is why God did not want any of the Midians left alive. They would have corrupted the nation of Israel with their beliefs and the Israelite would have turned from God which they did whent they married other races with different beliefs.
The second know fact is that if you leave women and children alive who have followed a certain belief and who have experience the results of war, the children tend to grow up taught to hate the people who have done this and they spread their beliefs as well as waging an attack later in life.
God is very clear that we should try to live peacefully and that we shouldn't kill but there is a time when we must defend what we believe in and our freedom.
You are quoting many verses out of context from what the bible actually says.
2007-10-16 03:08:31 · answer #2 · answered by rltouhe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A. You have **no** idea what the Talmudic-era rabbis said or meant, so give it up. You're not going to start a holy war here.
B. Obviously there were slaughters in the Bible--however, that was 3000-odd years ago. Today, you won't find us blowing ourselves up in crowded markets, running planes into buildings, beheading innocent people--you know, that kind of stuff.
2007-10-16 07:18:25 · answer #3 · answered by Mark S, JPAA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't remember some of this stuff... i remember alot of times when moses was told to kill all man, women, and children b/c once someone didn't kill a women and kept her as a sex slave and god ordered moses to go and kill the guys whole family. These people were pagan and represented everything the isrealites were not, so god didn't want any small seed of them left in the camps of "his people"
2007-10-16 02:56:51 · answer #4 · answered by Brittany M 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes
2007-10-16 03:04:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Be careful not to add commentary to the words of the Bible.
I have found nothing that said they were to be sex slaves, a thing which I do believe was against the law anyway.
And your point is what?
2007-10-16 03:04:12 · answer #6 · answered by Jed 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Running a country is no joke is it? I wouldn't want to be in Moses' position ever. I would have been struck down from the word GO.
2007-10-16 02:56:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
These are total lies based on Islamic teachings. Moses never did any of these things. He led his people out of slavery to freedom.
This poster is obviously an anti semite.
2007-10-16 03:01:56 · answer #8 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God hates children
2007-10-16 02:57:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Moses is god like a light of his soul and Jesus is also god so Jesus is infront u love him and the love the moses both are same.
2007-10-16 02:58:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋