Slaughter of innocents in OT?

Question

Can anyone help me understand why God did this? Like children??

Answer 1

God didn't slaughter ne body, if ur talking about where he told abraham to sacrifice his son, then well God asked abraham to do it, to test his faith, and when he realized that abraham was going to do it, cuz he trusted in God, then he alowed Isaac not to be killed. God has a good reason for everything.

Answer 2

According to the Christian viewpoint, THERE ARE NO "innocents." We have ALL sinned and fall short. We are BORN into what is known as "Original Sin."

As for your reference to "Slaughter of innocents," you cite NO specific examples. WHO was slaughtered (other than just saying, "like children")? WHO did the slaughtering (other than just saying, "why God did this?" did what?)?

Without specifics, how can we answer you?


Have a blessed day.

Answer 3

Men, Women and Children were to be slaughtered without leaving even a suckling baby alive.

"....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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The Bible says David wanted to marry the Daughter of Saul.

Saul tells him to bring 100 PENIS foreskins as a token.

David kills 200 Philistines and brings their Penile foreskins to Saul as dowry for his first wife (Saul's daughter Michal).

1 Samuel 18:27 -- Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. [ http://bible.cc/1_samuel/18-27.htm ]


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Answer 4

The "slaughter of the innocents" happened in the NT, when the Joseph was warned in a dream to take Mary and the baby from Bethlehem to Egypt. Then it was Herod who killed all the boys there under two years old, it wasn't God.

Answer 5

Sinners can be exceedingly evil. Sinners rebel against the clearly revealed will of God. Sinners spit in God's face. God treats nations as a whole as either faithful or unfaithful to him. If the nation is exceedingly evil, the nation is utterly destroyed. This is a picture of the day of judgment. It is meant as a warning to you and me today. We should turn from our sins and turn to God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

Actually- men did all the slaughtering.
But the bronze age goat herders that wrote down the history blamed it all on their deity at the time.
And 3000 or more years later, people think it was some kind of magic and call it god.

Answer 7

Either:

1.) Because he's a cruel SOB.
2.) Because he's imaginary and the random acts of an often cruel world were attributed to an ostensibly benevolent deity.