That's because the "god" in the OT is a insecure ego maniac on a power trip.
“Insecure” about what? The Amalekites had over 300 years to repent. An "insecure" God doesn't wait that long to avenge the attacks on His people.
And there's people thousands of years later that worship this god who was conjured up in the writings of a insane primitive man. And these people would kill children on his orders.
Just as you would destroy your enemies (women, children, and all) for reasons far less than that, as long as you have the option of hiding behind modern weapons.
If that lady that drown her children was living then a book written by her absolving her from the murder of her children because "god" told her to do it might actually be in the Bible. Wait! Not possible because women back then, for the most part, were little more than property and had no intellectual or spiritual value in that society because she's the first one who ate the apple and slept with a snake. Unless of course they lived for three days in a whale.
What in the world was that senseless babble??
Yates would hardly be absolved from what she did. As mentioned earlier, the criteria to determine whether any such order would come from the Lord is EASY TO DETERMINE. What was the sin of these children or their parents? Were the parents given ample time to repent of any such trangression? Did anyone attempt to intercede on the behalf of the accused? And the list goes onward.
God did not tell this woman to kill her children, point blank. To try and equate what Yates did to this issue of the Amalekites (a group of people who raided, pillaged, and looted the Israelites and others without provocation for centuries, with no design on repenting or making amends) is utterly ridiculous.
Your claim about women having no intellectual or spiritual value is also incorrect, at least in the sense that it's not the way God ordered His people to behave. In fact, that's why Israel was BANNED from intermarrying with many of their neighbors. The Israelite men adopted some of their habits, among which was MISTREATING THEIR WOMEN.
And, speaking of "whale", the account to which you're referring makes my earlier point, refuting your claims of an "insecure" God. Jonah ended up in a certain critter's belly for not initially following God's instructions: To go to Nineveh and give the news of the people's destruction for their assaults on Israel But, unlike the Amalekites, the Ninevites actually repented; and that so-called "insecure ego maniac on a power trip" God.....SPARED THEM ALL.
That actually angered the prophet. Mr. Meanie-"insecure-ego manic" SPARED the people who'd been beating on Israel for years. Jonah wanted fire and brimstone and got PO'ed for not getting it.
Shouldn't the Lord have barbecued those Ninevites, if he's as "insecure" as you claim he is? Why spare them?
