a good question

Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
no

ok
so you're a nicer person than Joshua or Moses were.

Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
ok. youre missing the point, people who do things "in God's name" like killing, crusades etc. do not reflect God's will, only their own will.

Does that mean you don't believe that the stories in the bible about God telling people to kill are true, but in truth people just decided themselves to kill? While this makes perfect sense to me, a non-Christian, it surprises me to hear this from a Christian.

Originally posted by Nordlys
Does that mean you don't believe that the stories in the bible about God telling people to kill are true, but in truth people just decided themselves to kill? While this makes perfect sense to me, a non-Christian, it surprises me to hear this from a Christian.

i dont think God would tell somebody to kill a baby. maybe he was schizophrenic, lots of schizophrenic people claim things like that.

Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
i dont think God would tell somebody to kill a baby. maybe he was schizophrenic, lots of schizophrenic people claim things like that.

Was the bible written by a schizophrenic ?

Originally posted by frogstomp
Was the bible written by a schizophrenic ?

who knows it couldve been some long made up story for all we know, but i dont believe so.

Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
who knows it couldve been some long made up story for all we know, but i dont believe so.

So what do you believe? That it (or parts of it) were written by someone believing in what he was told by a schizophrenic?

Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
who knows it couldve been some long made up story for all we know, but i dont believe so.

oh, you mean like the flood story of the Sumerians.

Originally posted by Nordlys
So what do you believe? That it (or parts of it) were written by someone believing in what he was told by a schizophrenic?

no, but where in the bible does it say God told somebody to kill babies anyways?

Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
no, but where in the bible does it say God told somebody to kill babies anyways?

Here are some examples, there may be more: http://www.evilbible.com/Murder.htm#Murdering_Children

Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
no, but where in the bible does it say God told somebody to kill babies anyways?

Joshua
8:1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed:take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
8:2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst
unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle
thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush
for the city behind it.

Originally posted by frogstomp
Joshua
8:1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed:take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
8:2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst
unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle
thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush
for the city behind it.

i dont see babies in there

Originally posted by Nordlys
Here are some examples, there may be more: http://www.evilbible.com/Murder.htm#Murdering_Children

that website only highlights the bad things and not the good things to make Christians look bad.

Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
i dont see babies in there

here?

6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and
woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
i dont see babies in there

From the same chapter: "When the Israelite army finished killing all the men outside the city, they went back and finished off everyone inside. So the entire population of Ai was wiped out that day – twelve thousand in all. For Joshua kept holding out his spear until everyone who had lived in Ai was completely destroyed. Only the cattle and the treasures of the city were not destroyed, for the Israelites kept these for themselves, as the LORD had commanded Joshua." It's unlikely that there were no babies in the city.

Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
that website only highlights the bad things and not the good things to make Christians look bad.

But how do you explain the bad things away?