No, not at all, the Children needlessly suffered and were given an undue punishment. they were murdered and slaughtered and it wasn't neccessary (which it never is).
To dismiss it as an consequence is barbaric and shows a lack of morality.
Hence: not godly.
When you continue to pursue bad behavior, knowing that the ramifications will affect not just you, but those under your charge, then it does become an act of consequence. As I said some time ago, if I do something immoral that costs me my job and can't pay the rent/mortgage, my entire family will be out on the street, not just me. And, NO, my landlord/the bank foreclosers are not obligated to find a place for my children to stay, because of my actions.
I wasn't suggesting it was falling apart, My point was that in order for him to have common sense would mean his and your foundation of beliefs would dissolve or fall apart. So in way you are locked into this barbaric immoral way of thinking that says there is justification for killing innocent children if their parents have sinned.
How would that fly today McVay? Would that kind of behavior be considered Christian? I think not. It would be worse than 9/11.
First of all, the name's MCWAY (not MCVAY, an obvious play on words regarding a certain dead criminal). Second of all, this "barbaric" behavior has happened before. Again, I refer you to Hiroshima and the A-bomb. Did that bomb just kill adult Japanese? NOPE!!! Did our country exhaust every other means to get the Japanese to stop their assaults? Yes!!!
I think the oldest known writings are Sumerian text on clay tablets. But what ever the case, there are many ancient religious writings so that's a moot point really. Further more how do you qualify validated? Writings that identify an ancient city in turn prove that someone lived in the belly of a whale for 3 days? 
My Point is, there was a better more MORAL way to deal with the problem, but you believe it was God who dealt with it this way when he has all this power.
Says who? God does have all this power. He chose to deal with Amalekites, as described in 1 Samuel. You don't like His decision? TOO BAD!!! That takes nothing away from His power and omnipotence.
Well you both are living in the stone age, Society has far progressed from that and realizes that killing innocent children regardless of the sins of the parents is wrong and immoral. (I guess the God of the OT was still immature )
Again, I refer you to the A-bomb and Hiroshima. That was only about 60-70 years ago; so it's safe to say that this was past the "stone age".
It has everything to do with it. That's where they get their justification. If the book was written properly people wouldn't get instructions on how to trade and train slaves, how to be angry and jealous, or how to murder children instead of finding a solution.
Properly based on whose standards, yours? The solution was found: After 300+ years of giving the Amalekites opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to repent and make amends, the time had come for judgment. The simple fact is that over the centuries, the Amalekites got worse, not better. Therefore, it was time to deal with them, once and for all. As Samuel put it, Amalek's sword made women childless; now mothers of Amalek would be childless.
Yes, it's the Bible that has helped to sanctify and legitimatize much of the suffering we've seen in the world in our history, Murder, slavery, repression, displacement etc....
The Bible has done nothing of the sort. The people who did this did so and would have done so, regardless of what the Bible has to say.
What if the Bible only contained the commandments and the NT? Slavery would have been abolished much sooner, displacing families and nations wouldn't have been thought to be proper, murdering on the scale of the crusades wouldn't been done with religious justification and in turn probably not happen on the scale it did.
Slavery (specifically chattel slavery) was institutionalized for one reason: MONEY!!! Same goes for the Crusaders, the leaders of whom could have cared less whether their enemies repented/converted or not.
Yes, this book has help to as much bad as it has done to do much good.
Again we are talking about the kids, a hard thing for even thumpers to swallow that's why you keep thinking i"m talking about the parents.
Wrong! Nobody here is thinking you're talking about the parents. What's hard for you to swallow is the fact that, in life, as tragic as it is, chidren do pay for the sins of their parents. That's why the parents/leaders/kings need to do what's right. Their sins don't just affect them; they affect other people. Just as their righteous behavior can bless their people, their wicked behavior can curse their people.
God is supposed to be in control of his emotions at the very least. If not he's certainly not a God (which is my point about the OT not being the WOG) Not like some raged mad-man.
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That's just stupid McVay.
Who says that he isn't? Oh, I forgot. He isn't doing things the way you think He should
. Once again, my name (on this forum) is MCWAY!!
God wisdom to be Godly would not include hypocrisy.
Its a principle.
Talk the talk and walk the walk.
And, He does. Righteous behavior blesses man and those under his charge; wicked behavior curses man and those under his charge.
huh?
"huh?" about what? "Third and fourth generations" means descendants. And, that's what I've said from the start. Other people can suffer for YOUR sins. What part of that don't you get?
Again, you fail to see I'm talking about the children.
McVay talk all that logic or what ever you call it and apply it to a scenario today. How outrageous would that be?
But you can't get that can you? to do so, would mean to question the Bible, the word.....
You know it's a good thing people like you aren't in power. Because many innocent people might die from this righteousness crap.
Again it's about innocent children, something you can't seem to get, children you would have killed.
What you don't get is that, on certain scales, when you mess up or do something wrong (read this very slowly, so it sinks into your head)......YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO PAYS THE PRICE!!! That is true in this life, regardless of how much wailing or blubbering about it you do.
My sins don't just affect me; your sins don't just affect you (I can guarantee that you've done something wrong in your life and it has adversely affected someone else; I know that's happened in my life). And, the sins of the Amalekite men didn't just affect them. It brought judgment on their entire population. Plus, I forgot to mention the Israelites. How many of them later died at the sword of the resurging Amalekites, because Saul failed to follow instructions?
