Off another thread, to Bible Believers...if you had been a Hebrew at the time of the

Stockholm Syndrome.

If one truly looks at the "God of the Old Testament"....He's a genocidal psychotic who plays "benevolent dictator" to one tribe of sheepherders....AS LONG AS they worship Him and don't question his murderous ways.

Naturally, I'm sure most of the Hebrews were fine with slaughtering Amalekite babies and children....and in REALITY wrote "Samuel" as excuse-making ("God told us to do it and approved of it.")....

but to the modern Bible Believer it leaves an unresolvable paradox....the "loving and merciful God" they want to sell.....who behaved like Stalin or Pol Pot.

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1 Samuel 15:3 has NOTHING to do with "free will".....God ORDERED the slaughter of the Amalekite children and babies. To NOT commit infanticide would have been to "go against God" and be condemned. No "Free Will" was allowed.

 

Yes,... "if you had been a Hebrew at the time."

The Hebrew patriarchs acted exactly the same way Islam does now.
Patriarchies intend to destroy matriarchies that give sexual powers to the women.

And in those days, saddled with the extra weight of twice the women and all those children Israel would not have been able to exist as it had before the invasion.

 

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Jesus loved the kids.

Jesus was just telling the Jews, that forethought and clear thinking could now "see" the way to behave.
The Truth can and "will make you free" of the abuse and sadness of sexual promiscuity 's effect on the children to come.

The miracles he performed were merely directed at teaching the Jews that he was The Eljiah, returned in 32AD:



They both did the same miracles, which was traditionally supposed to identify Elijah when would come back.

Both Elijah and Jesus raised the dead

Both Elijah and Jesus were immortal.

Both Elijah and Jesus disappeared from the foot of a mountain.

Both Elijah and Jesus ascended into Heaven before witnesses.

Both Elijah and Jesus troubled Israel.

Both Elijah and Jesus were hunted down by the Jewish authorities.

Both Elijah and Jesus hid in a cave/tomb.

Both Elijah and Jesus pondered in the wilderness 40 days.

Both Elijah and Jesus walked on the water.

Both wrote letters to people on Earth after they had ascended.

Both appointed a successor, Elisha by Elijah, and Peter, by Christ.

Both were hunted by the Jewish authorities

Both gave a successor the power to raise the dead

Both gave a successor a symbolic authority, the cloak to one, the keys to the other.

Both asked that the this "cup" be taken from them.

Both are said to have had miraculous births.

Both multiplied the meal for many people they feed in the crowd

Both destroyed the pagan worshippers and priests, one Baal, the other, the Pantheon of Rome.

Both were promised faithfulness three times, Elisha in the former and Peter, in the latter.

 

Who ordered the killing of the Amalekite children and babies?

 

God...

God is Reality, or the force behind it.
The reality was that sexually promiscuous Gentiles had to be eliminated, and that was what Israel was doing.

The Muslims are still acting like patriarchs today, as the whole world can see.
They are attacking the weak matriarchies of Europe and america for the same reasons.

 

So God ordered infanticide?

 

Yes,...
He wants to eliminate sexually promiscuous societies from the ends of the earth.

So, before Jesus in 32AD, he had asked the patriarchs to do the job.
But they failed and turned to promiscuity themselves.

Then, for 1000 years, there was that prudent Christianity of the Dark Ages.
Only the Truth of what sex can do was needed.

But the economic beast of the ancient Greek and Roman Culture returned with The Renaissance.

 

You're delusional...you can rationalize any horrific action taken by your god. You disgust me.

 

Remember that God is Reality.

We discovered this when jesus came and told us he was the image of God, in the form and personification of Truth.
Reality kills us all.

The Reality is that sexually promiscuous societies are destroyed, one after another.
Europe and the America are next.

 

god is reality?...something for which there is no proof of, or requirement for....is reality?

Son of Sam said he spoke with god...does that make him a prophet?

Life kills us. Just as it does all animals

Learn the difference betwee cause and correlation.