What about murder in the Bible?

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christians judge muslims just over one passage in the Quran that says to fight the unbelievers until they stop fightin back ,  let's have a look in ther  crazy bible

Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword.  Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes.  Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes.  For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off.  The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows.  They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children.  (Isaiah 13:15-18 NLT)

  Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death.  Such evil must be purged from Israel.  (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)

"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives."  (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)

 A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death.  (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)

 Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death.  (Exodus 21:15 NAB)

 1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness.  (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
    2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death.  They are guilty of a capital offense.  (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)

 A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.  (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)

 Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed.  (Exodus 22:19 NAB)

They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.  (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)

Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods.  In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully.  If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock.  Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it.  Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God.  That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt.  Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction.  Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you.  He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors.  "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him."  (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)

 (Moses) stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, "All of you who are on the LORD's side, come over here and join me." And all the Levites came.  He told them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Strap on your swords! Go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other, killing even your brothers, friends, and neighbors."  The Levites obeyed Moses, and about three thousand people died that day.  Then Moses told the Levites, "Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, for you obeyed him even though it meant killing your own sons and brothers. Because of this, he will now give you a great blessing."  (Exodus 32:26-29 NLT)

 But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house.  Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.  (Deuteronomy  22:20-21 NAB)

The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: 'Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you forever.  It helps you to remember that I am the LORD, who makes you holy.  Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy.  Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community.  Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest.  I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.'  (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)

I can do this all day , there is much more

Servant A · Accepted Answer

Yes, you can do that all day, I understand that when you say "let's have a look in ther crazy bible"
you are speaking of the Torah and the words written of the Hebrew prophets. Everyone knows of these things but they make that which is evil good, and that which is good, evil.

Jesus said,
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 
Matt 7:15-20 (KJV)

But you say, Jesus could not be talking about Moses because Moses came way before Jesus was even born, the false prophets that Jesus is talking about are of the future, really?

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers.

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness.

Moses gave you not that bread from heaven.

O'fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.

You fathers ate manna in the wilderness and are dead.

No man hath heard the voice of God, at any time, nor seen his shape.

For the laws were given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, no man hath seen God at any time.

As Moses lifted up the serpent

that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

As Moses lifted up the serpent.

And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

As Moses lifted up the serpent.

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

As Moses lifted up the serpent.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
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Hogie · Answer

This is practically comical.  You are judging Christians/Christianity based on the religious basis of ancient Israel.  That religion was based in a "covenant" law known as the "old" covenant in Christianity.  It is a covenant, or legal contract, that was between God and Israel of old. CHRISTIANS ARE NOT A LEGAL PARTY TO THAT COVENANT.

What you have done is effectively used the old covenant law as a straw-man argument; a logical fallacy.  It is a method of deception, commonly also used by the deceived.  You seek to "knock down" Christianity using a standard that is not Christian, in order to leave Islam as the alternative.  

If you were honest with your own religion, you would argue FOR your religion, and not AGAINST another. 

You conclude with a claim regarding Jesus and slaves that is a lie.  There is no such statement in the Christian Scriptures.  Those who lie follow the father of lies.

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Ray · Answer

If you are going to rant, the least you could do is keep it short. Any history book will include a few thousand murders. Get off the Old Testament, already! Notice the difference in the New Testament? Oh! You didn't get that far?

? · Answer

Jesus never said it was okay to hit your slave hard.
Please give scriptural reference to this.
Muslims believe Jesus is a prophet .
Christians do not follow Jewish  laws. 
We are followers of Jesus Christ. The New Testament is where we may find information that is useful to Christians. It is obvious Christians do not stone people for adultery. They do not follow kosher dietary laws.

In Love With Tokyo™ · Answer

Christians are hypocrites .... the word sword is mentioned in the bible over hundred times, but not once in the Quran.

Jesus even said "Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."

Mike · Answer

This is all Old Testament stuff. Its only relevant to God's relationship with the children of Israel - the Jews. Show us the bits where Jesus instructs us to kill those who refuse to believe in him.

Anonymous · Answer

No problem, perfectly acceptable.

Say anything about the nature of religion?

? · Answer

Some god huh?

? · Answer

allahu snackbar! all hail the monolith of text! OTL

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