when God Says: "I am an all loving and merciful god", or says, "thou shall not murder", and then proceeds to murder innnocnet children on many occasions, he is a hypocrite.
Hardly!! As mentioned earlier, only the One who gives life has take it away. We are not to do so, UNLESS authorized by Him, under certain circumstances.
And, He is a merciful God. Ironically enough, on another thread, you indirectly mentioned Jonah, the prophet who actually got ANGRY with God for sparing the Ninevites, instead of destroying them. You're beginning to sound like him, in a sense.
Your explanation doesn't hold.
Are we dropping nukes on Terrorists? yes or no?
NOPE!!! It hasn't reached that point, yet. And hopefully it won't
I've explained my view on the 2 nukes we dropped in WW2. I understand the reasoning to drop them. I don't agree with dropping them. Still yet, what we did with Japan is a FAR CRY from committing GENOCIDE.
What happened with the Amalekites wasn't "committing GENOCIDE", either, for the reasons explained earlier. The Amalekites weren't targeted simply for being Amalekites. They had multiple opportunities to REPENT and make peace with Israel (including one last chance, when Saul warned the Kenites to leave the area). Had they done that, no more beef, no judgment, no NOTHING!!!
Did the jews just wipe out 2 Amalekite villages or cities forcing surrender and then rebuild their country like we did with the Japanese? yes or no?
NOPE!! One, the Amalekites didn't surrender; two; Israel was under no obligation to rebuild Amalek; three, (again) had the Amalekites ceased with their assaults and made peace, they'd have never tasted the sword of Saul.
Did the Americans have the full power of God then or today? yes or no?
Like i said you explanation doesn't hold.
NOPE!!! Regardless, they made a deliberate decisions, with the full ramifications of such being known.
Did we have to enslave the Japanese or the Germans yes or no?
NOPE!! They, unlike the Amalekites, were smart enough to surrender and cease with the scrapping.
Do you believe a race of people or a tribe/clan/nation of people are inherently evil generation after generation? yes or no?
NOPE!! But, the evil actions of their leaders can bring dire consequences on ALL THE PEOPLE of that tribe/clan/nation. That's again the worse part about sinful behavior in certain areas: The transgressor IS NOT THE ONLY ONE who pays the price.
Just as crooked CEOs can bring financial ruin to their ENTIRE COMPANY (from their executives to the janitors), wicked kings can bring DEATH upon their ENTIRE KINGDOM (from the princes to the peasants, and everyone in between them).
If they left the children all the cattle and crops, they would not have starved to death. Additionally assimilating them into their society wouldn't require slavery.
First, there wouldn't be enough children to tend to, much less harvest and care for, all the cattle and crops (notwithstanding the fact that the crops and livestock were to be destroyed, anyway).
Second, how long do you REALLY THINK a land full of crops and cattle are going to last, in the ancient world, with NOBODY to defend it, except a bunch of little kids? If the Israelites don't get them, the next set of Amalek foes (and, based on the Amalekites' actions, they had plenty of those) would have.
Assimilation required, among other things, a rejection of the Amalekite deity, as well as a system quelling of their desire to relatiate when they grow up. OOOPS!!! That's exactly what Israel's laws were designed to do. But, as shown with the Amalekites, who were ALREADY PART OF ISRAEL'S SOCIETY, when they got the muscle and the nerve, they picked right up where their ancestors left off.
Did we do this with the warlike Japanese and the Genociding Germans? yes or no?
NOPE!!! Reason (once again): THEY QUIT and they didn't attack us ever again. I don't recall our being assaulted by Japan for over 300 years.
Did the Jews have the power of God? yes or no?
Is God all powerful? yes or no?
Yes, indeed, on both counts!!!
We've already found solutions with the power of God you refuse yet to acknowledge.
I don't recall the Lord asking YOU (or me) for a solution to anything. He gave them the opportunity to repent and be spared (on several occasions); they did not take it. He rendered judgment as He saw fit, which He has the power to do. Whether it matches your "solution" or not is quite irrevelant.
You reasoning doesn't hold. Murder is murder.
Your reasoning doesn't hold. Murder is intentionally taking life without authorization from the proper governing body. God is THE ultimate authority; there is none higher than Him, least of all you (or me).
Exactly. We are men, not God. We are men who do not have the power of God. God, has the power. Yet he ordered men to murder innocent children. Our justification as men, to drop those to nukes on Japan ais far more legitimate because we don't have the power of God. Had we the power of God there would have been many other things we could have done to prevent having to drop 2 nukes on them to get them to surrender.
Congratulations!!!! You've just contradicted yourself. As long as there's "justification" (in your case, you don't have the power of God and you can use modern weapons, you WOULD, in fact, take actions to destroy an enemy....WITH THE FULL KNOWLEDGE that innocent children will die as a result.
This is why, if God is "all loving and merciful, all forgiving etc..." The God, in many of the instances in the OT is NOT God.
Mercy and forgiveness require one thing.......REPENTANCE!!! For all your screeching, you've completley ignored the responsibility of the Amalekites to repent of their action (if, for no other reason, to spare their own hides).
Once again, if they repent and make amends, they get spared. But, they did not.....proceed with judgment as planned!!!!
Still not addressing the difference between GENOCIDE and the war on terrorism
Wrong again!! What happened to the Amalekites was not genocide. The war on terrorism (as we know it today) has NOT been ongoing for over 300 years. And, if the terrorists cease and desist, this war on terror is OVER.
You are trying to compare the two to lessen the issue of murdering children in cold blood vs. children dying from collateral damage. This is why you get accused of intellectual dishonesty by others. Because you very well know how stupid your position is.
Look who's talking!!! What you can't seem to grasp is that simple concept that, in the ancient world, children starving to death in the desert/being left to get picked off by other enemies is, in the ancient world is "collateral damage".
All you listed is the reasons for what they did. Hitler had his reasons too.
In both cases GENOCIDE was committed.
I don't think so. When exactly did Hitler offer the Jews the chance to repent (of course, that would require listing what supposed offense they committed that warranted such, in the first place)?
If you want to turn this thread into slavery too that's fine. You where exposed on another thread regarding it. Slavery, also, is something the God you worship loves.
Obviously not.
So, now you're basically stating that the words of JESUS CHRIST Himself, stating that God sent Him to redeem mankind (not to mention a very popular Bible verse by the disciple) John is false.
So, who supposedly sent Jesus Christ to die for man's sins (and give the "nuggets of wisdom" that you like and the Christian upbringing that your parents gave to you)?
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