2007-11-26 23:58:39 · 12 answers · asked by Jordan (guy) 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Free will yes but by God's command. 1 Samuel 17: 45-46 David said to the philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Isreal,whom you have defied.
2007-11-27 00:11:24 · update #1
This commandment was written before their time yes?
2007-11-27 00:21:45 · update #2
calm down tonia lol.
2007-11-27 00:23:02 · update #3
God was right in everything he did. I don't have all the answers but I know they are out there. I'm smart enough to know that it takes intelligence to create intelligence and knowing that...the proof of God is everywhere. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEXGKzH0F9c
2007-11-27 00:29:49 · update #4
God bless you all.
Even you atheist!!!! :)
2007-11-27 00:30:29 · update #5
I feel none of your answers are correct so let the voting begin
2007-11-28 01:00:10 · update #6
That book is just full of all sorts of contradictions isn't it?
2007-11-27 00:11:45 · answer #1 · answered by Chessmistress1000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You see, this system of things was started with the war in heaven. Then satan and his followers were made to fall on to the earth. They possessed many inhabitants of the earth and made them disobedient and wicked. Therefore what is going on here now including wars fought by Saul and David is a continuation of the war in heaven. Until today, the battle is still on between good and evil. A time is coming when evil will finally be defeated and there will be no more killing.
2007-11-27 00:30:43 · answer #2 · answered by Franked 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saul and David have symbolic meaning, existing within us, two opposing forces, duality. Saul (negative aspect) slays that which is good, while David (positive aspect) slays that which is evil. Saul means to demand, David, to love.
This is why the kingdom (symbolizing the spiritual kingdom of the mind and Heart, aka, kingdom of heaven and kingdom of God) was taken from Saul and given unto David.
2007-11-27 00:12:26 · answer #3 · answered by Sandra L. Butler 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It always amazes me how many times this God orders the killing of innocent people even after the Ten Commandments said “Thou shall not kill”. For example, God kills 70,000 innocent people because David ordered a census of the people (1 Chronicles 21). God also orders the destruction of 60 cities so that the Israelites can live there. He orders the killing of all the men, women, and children of each city, and the looting of all of value (Deuteronomy 3). He orders another attack and the killing of “all the living creatures of the city: men and women, young, and old, as well as oxen sheep, and asses” (Joshua 6). In Judges 21, He orders the murder of all the people of Jabesh-gilead, except for the virgin girls who were taken to be forcibly raped and married. When they wanted more virgins, God told them to hide alongside the road and when they saw a girl they liked, kidnap her and forcibly rape her and make her your wife! Just about every other page in the Old Testament has God killing somebody! In 2 Kings 10:18-27, God orders the murder of all the worshipers of a different god in their very own church! In total God kills 371,186 people directly and orders another 1,862,265 people murdered.
The God of the Bible also allows slavery, including selling your own daughter as a sex slave (Exodus 21:1-11), child abuse (Judges 11:29-40 and Isaiah 13:16), and bashing babies against rocks (Hosea 13:16 & Psalms 137:9).
This type of criminal behavior should shock any moral person. Murder, rape, pillage, plunder, slavery, and child abuse can not be justified by saying that some god says it’s OK. If more people would actually sit down and read the Bible there would be a lot more atheists like myself.
2007-11-27 00:04:54 · answer #4 · answered by DogmaDeleted 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
David... forsaken: Ps 22
Saul...chief sinner: 1Tim 1
Where no law, no sin: Rom 4:15; 5:13
Christ is the end of the law: Rom 10:4
So then we'll go with grace is sufficient.
The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
2007-11-27 00:14:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course one is not expected to get out and murder without a reason. The situation was that of a war, and when an enemy is attacking you, you are not supposed to sit down and wait for them to kill you. You have to fight. This is not murder for the fun of it, or for your own interest.
Peace/salaam.
2007-11-27 00:16:23 · answer #6 · answered by Abu Ahmad 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
'Allowed to' ? No
'Forgiven for' Yes, in the case of David certainly.
Big difference
2007-11-27 00:07:29 · answer #7 · answered by za 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the great story of the Old Testament - God's chosen people, continually messing up, doing wrong things, being disobedient, etc. - yet never losing their faith, their favor or their relationship with their Creator.
Powerful lessons in there.
2007-11-27 00:03:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because they were commanded to by the Lord God to do so.
In other instances, when it was not the will of God......it was murder. (i.e. Uriah the Hittite)
2007-11-27 00:02:41 · answer #9 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
WOW DOGMA YOU DID WONDERFUL WRITING THERE! STRANGE THAT IT WAS ALREADY WRITTEN FOR YOU IN THE "EVIL BIBLE" I THOUGHT YOU ATHIESTS PRIDED YOURSELVES ON THINKING FOR YOURSELVES. NOT LETTING ANYONE PUT WORDS IN YOUR MOUTHS??
COME ON! ATHIEST IS A BELEIF SYSTEM JUST AS MUCH AS CHRISTIANITY! SO GET OFF YOUR SYSTEM OF SOAP BOXING AND ADMIT IT! ATHIESTS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN EVOLUTION TOTING DARWIN PRAMOTING LIBERALS WHO WANT EVERYONE TO AGREE WITH THEM JUST AS MUCH AS I WANT EVERYONE TO GET SAVED AND GO TO HEAVEN!
ONLY DIFFERNCE IS THAT MY FAITH GIVES ME HOPE AND JOY! WHAT HAS LIBERALISM EVER GIVEN ANYONE? OH I KNOW BILL CLINTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE WITH MONICA!
2007-11-27 00:19:57 · answer #10 · answered by Tonia 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋