XBish Wrote:kill and rape everyone!!so he should! he scares me too (putting the following in context - it refers to the crossing of the red sea. if you could kindly put all your verses in context too they might better enlighten others):
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)
Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests
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)
Death to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill Nonbelievers
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)
Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night
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)
More Rape and Baby Killing
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)
if this god is "perfect" perfection scares the crap out of me.
"He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God." jos 4:24
"Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!" "1 chr 16:31
xbish - i really do appreciate that you have opened a bible, or opened biblegateway.com, etc and are not just taking other people's impressions. hope you keep reading, you may not know the full story yet. there are even more exciting passages than these.
i partially re-quote Deuteronomy 32:3-5:
I will proclaim the name of the LORD.
. .Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
. .and all his ways are just.
. .A faithful God who does no wrong,
. .upright and just is he.
They have acted corruptly toward him;
. .to their shame they are no longer his children,
. .but a warped and crooked generation.