Christians: No one has yet answered this question.?
Why do you choose to worship a God who commands genocide?
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ***.
(1 Sam 15:2-3)
2008-06-27T20:32:05Z
Pam-- This is exactly why Christianity is dangerous. You're defending genocide, when I seriously doubt you would in any other context.
E-- No idea what you're asking, although I'm pretty sure it's not an answer to my question.
2008-06-27T20:36:36Z
This is profoundly disturbing and fascinating. I didn't think it would be quite this easy to get christians to defend mass murder.
bennett.james7772008-06-27T20:33:44Z
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God is a jealous God over His children. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. It were better for one to have a millstone about his neck and be cast into the depths of the sea that to offend one of these little ones. Vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord. Amalek was a lesson to all observers that Israel was chosen. As far as the children, being raised in an idolatrous generation, by God takeing them they are safe in him, where as the nation as a whole had already turned to idolatry as a choice so it did not matter how long or short their lives were, their end would be the same. The whole duty of man is to fear God and keep his commandants.
Had the children lived, they would have grown into bitter adults and sought revenge. Which is exactly what happened later because Saul did not do what God told him to do.
God was under NO COVENANT with any other nation or people. He was in covenant with Israel and they were his only concern. He was not against people converting to Judaism though. Many people did and God received them. Then God was bound to do what was best for them the same as if they were jews. Nations did not convert to him though.
Ruth was not a jew. She converted to judaism and left her country and everything. Jesus came through her bloodline.
God had to preserve Israel and the amalek's were trying to kill them. Jesus was going to come through their bloodline and God was keeping them alive.
If it makes you feel better, Jesus came through their bloodline so the mission was accomplished. There is no more need to protect christians because Jesus rose from the dead and did what He came to earth to do. It is finished.
And you are finding out that you have free will not to worship Him. Looks like He's not much of a dictator after all. Some times then, we need to trust that God is truly just and fair even if we do not understand it all the time. He has not punished you yet anyway. Let's face it, you are only looking for excuses not to worship.
The reason that He wanted them all killed was so that the Israelites would not be polluted by the false worship that was in that land. God gave them the whole time that the Israelites were in captivity. Four hundred years and still they would not turn to God. Of course I worship a God who demands my whole attention and despises those who refuse to see their error.