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Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by mazaje(m): 8:27pm On Oct 17, 2008
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dauda*:

Again, none of your business. I don't tell catholics "my opinion" (a blatant lie), i simply point out the FACTS from the bible.
You'D be well advised to understand what you actually speak so gullibly about. Foaming in the mouth does not impress me, ability to intelligently marshall a point does.

That again is not true , its all your opinion, its all about personal intepretation of a very ambigious book. . . . By the way why is there no universally accepted christainity? why is there no universally accepted christian doctorine? where are there over 30,000 sect and religions in christainty? the reason all boils down to opinion . . . . . . . and yours does not supercede any body's
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by JJYOU: 8:51pm On Oct 17, 2008
MAY GOD HELP US. with people like these
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by dauda2: 8:53pm On Oct 17, 2008
mazaje:

That again is not true , its all your opinion, its all about personal intepretation of a very abigious book. . . . By the way why is there no universally accepted christainity? why is there no universally accepted christian doctorine? where are there over 30,000 sect and religions in christainty? the reason all boils down to opinion . . . . . . . and yours does not supercede any body's

Thank you. Pls stop reading posts that allude to an ambigous book. Your mental state seems to be quite ambigous at the moment
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by Lady2(f): 9:15pm On Oct 17, 2008
its obvious you have'nt been reading your bible, where is the love when god in the bible kills and orders people to kill, steal, rape and enslave each other? where is the love? god in the bible ordered people to murder each other and you are here talking about love? where is the love?

It is obvious that you have been reading the Bible out of context and out of time. Those are books written for a particular place and time and in a certain context. You must not forget that God is a God of justice.

That is not true, their bible is different from yours, theirs contain additional books

actually theirs contain less books but carry on. i got your point.
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by dauda2: 9:24pm On Oct 17, 2008
~Lady~:

It is obvious that you have been reading the Bible out of context and out of time. Those are books written for a particular place and time and in a certain context. You must not forget that God is a God of justice.

actually theirs contain less books but carry on. i got your point.

First he's reading the book "out of context and out of time". Soon as he seems to be pushing a catholic agenda u suddenly "get his point" and he shld "carry on"? This airhead is a joy to read. grin
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by mazaje(m): 9:33pm On Oct 17, 2008
dauda*:

Thank you. please stop reading posts that allude to an ambigous book. Your mental state seems to be quite ambigous at the moment

its your mental state that is ambigious at the moment since you want to be saved by an imaginary being/force that kills babies and children and encourages people to kill, rape enslave and destroy each other. . . . .
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by mazaje(m): 9:34pm On Oct 17, 2008
JJYOU:

MAY GOD HELP US. with people like these

The same god that encouraged people to kill, steal, maim, rape and destroy each other in the bible? say it aint so. . . . .
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by dauda2: 9:34pm On Oct 17, 2008
mazaje:

its your mental state that is ambigious at the moment since you want to be saved by an imaginary being/force that kills babies and children and encourages people to kill, rape enslave and destroy each other. . . . .

did i complain to you?
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by mazaje(m): 9:38pm On Oct 17, 2008
dauda*:

did i complain to you?

then dont ever compalin when moslem go about killing people because they believe they will go to paradise when they do that. . . . you are quick in pointing fingers and complaining when moslems go on rampage. . . . your god is no better than theirs. . . . .
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by mazaje(m): 9:42pm On Oct 17, 2008
~Lady~:

It is obvious that you have been reading the Bible out of context and out of time. Those are books written for a particular place and time and in a certain context. You must not forget that God is a God of justice.



what do you mean by out of context? did the biblical god carry out and ordered all those atrocities or not? why do christains vilify allah and not the biblical god since they are no different from each other? are the moslems reading the koran out of context? or is the bible lying against its god?
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by dauda2: 9:45pm On Oct 17, 2008
mazaje:

then don't ever compalin when moslem go about killing people because they believe they will go to paradise when they do that. . . . you are quick in pointing fingers and complaining when moslems go on rampage. . . . your god is no better than theirs. . . . .

Taken as your opinion.
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by Chrisbenogor(m): 7:34am On Oct 18, 2008
@lady
Sorry oh but I could not help but ask where is the justice in killing innocent people? Those mass genocides if they are to be believed wiped out more than 23 million people and that is just between genesis and joshua. World war II was only able to wipe out 43 million people that was with fighter jets and was ships and all that, the hebrews managed theirs with swords and slings and arrows.
The poster tried to raise a point which is that there is really no record of the devil being responsible for these mass killings, the devil's own problem was that he made man see good and evil, which is not such a bad thing but God took his anger squarely on man and visiting it on their generations.
Really what do we know about the devil? He came to steal to kill and to destroy is what the bible says but if we look critically God is the chief architect of killing stealing and destroying innocent people.
So tell me where you see justice in all this really tell me.
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by Chrisbenogor(m): 7:36am On Oct 18, 2008
@lady
Sorry oh but I could not help but ask where is the justice in killing innocent people? Those mass genocides if they are to be believed wiped out more than 23 million people and that is just between genesis and joshua. World war II was only able to wipe out 43 million people that was with fighter jets and was ships and all that, the hebrews managed theirs with swords and slings and arrows.
The poster tried to raise a point which is that there is really no record of the devil being responsible for these mass killings, the devil's own problem was that he made man see good and evil, which is not such a bad thing but God took his anger squarely on man and visiting it on their generations.
Really what do we know about the devil? He came to steal to kill and to destroy is what the bible says but if we look critically God is the chief architect of killing stealing and destroying innocent people.
So tell me where you see justice in all this really tell me.
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by mazaje(m): 7:52am On Oct 18, 2008
Chrisbenogor:

@lady
Sorry oh but I could not help but ask where is the justice in killing innocent people? Those mass genocides if they are to be believed wiped out more than 23 million people and that is just between genesis and joshua. World war II was only able to wipe out 43 million people that was with fighter jets and was ships and all that, the hebrews managed theirs with swords and slings and arrows.
The poster tried to raise a point which is that there is really no record of the devil being responsible for these mass killings, the devil's own problem was that he made man see good and evil, which is not such a bad thing but God took his anger squarely on man and visiting it on their generations.
Really what do we know about the devil? He came to steal to kill and to destroy is what the bible says but if we look critically God is the chief architect of killing stealing and destroying innocent people.
So tell me where you see justice in all this really tell me.

where is the love and justice, when god kills or orders people to kill, enslave, steal, rape, lie and destroy each other? what amazes me is how quick christains are quick to point their fingers on allah, saying that he is manovalent, evil and dangerous when their own god is no better. . . . . . . .
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by Chrisbenogor(m): 10:02am On Oct 18, 2008
They cannot even agree on the nature of God, if one looks closely why has God progressed with human beings. In the old days he had the personality that men had which is killing by brutal means as a form of punishment, in the present now that killing is totally wrong God suddenly does not like to kill again. Na wa
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by mazaje(m): 11:21am On Oct 18, 2008
Chrisbenogor:

They cannot even agree on the nature of God, if one looks closely why has God progressed with human beings. In the old days he had the personality that men had which is killing by brutal means as a form of punishment, in the present now that killing is totally wrong God suddenly does not like to kill again. Na wa

The europeans stole the jewish god who was created by the jews at that time in their own image and transformed him and his personality from the very tribal, manovalent and war monger he was into a universally accepted entity. . . . . The jews must be very bitter and angry at the europeans for what they have done to their god. . . . . .
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by spacetechinc: 6:20pm On Dec 07, 2012
you are so confused! probably think yourself an atheist or philosopher? hmmmn............. in your religion, what is Satan?
in mine there is no satan, only the one true power who is what he will be........ We in our ignorance attribute evil (according to human perception)to a separate power. there is no division in heaven only in earth (human mind).
genesis 32...... isaiah 45....... only the abrahamic religions dualise heaven
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by Nobody: 6:59pm On Dec 07, 2012
The MAIN PROBLEM with that article is the writer's referencing the bible 'God' AS GOD. It is WRONG and blasphemous to refer to the Jewish god of the bible as GOD. Yahweh or Jehovah IS NOT GOD.

I believe there is an almighty Creator, known to our ancestors and the rest of the world which came to be later invaded by christianity and islam, with both religions carrying a VERY DIFFERENT conceptualizaton of God than the one hitherto known to humanity. The Creator was known as an all-powerful but aloof God, who did not directly intervene in the lives of his creation, but allowed powerful entites ('the gods') the freedom to do so, and even to create other beings (like man). God didn't directly create humans. One or more of those lesser 'gods' did.

So that's where the problem lies - taking the Jewish bible writers at their word that the being they claim as God actually is God. Yahweh, going by the ancient framework/structure just outlined, was merely another of those subsidiary 'gods', but most certainly NOT GOD. Yahweh was particularly brutal as seen in the old testament. He was not omniscient or omnipresent. Strolling through the 'garden of Eden', he didn't know where 'Adam' was. 'Adam, where art thou?'

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Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by Nobody: 11:23am On Dec 08, 2012
Interesting article.
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by Ayomivic(m): 10:35am On Dec 09, 2012
mazaje:

so you believe that you are going to be salvaged by a god that kills babies, tells people to kill each other, orders people to enslave each other, rape, steal and lie? na you sabi. . . . . .
The world is really turning upside down now.In the world today theives has got theif-station. They now wanted to arrest police .Satan is now calling God devil.It's sign of End Time.

You said God kill babies and support killing, rape, stealing,etc. You are a liar like your master Satan.Who does not know that God did not like killing and all what you metioned ?or what are the commandments of God to us? You know his commandment but you will never talk the truth because there is no truth in you. I don't blame you because its the spirit of your master that is living in you and all his servants.The big diffrence between God and your Master (Satan or Devil ) is that God hate killing, rape,adultery, fornication,incest,gay ,lesbianism, etc and your master (Satan) like and love it.That is what you and the rest servants of your master want,that is why you are winning soul for your master because you think his the only one that can grant thes

If you will tell the truth, why did my God destroyed Sodom and Gomorah? Was it not because he did not grant them body freedom or body pleasure as you believe it to be, to practice gay and lesbianism that your master want for them? He makes them a scape goat,warning to people like you and because of that you people are rebelling against him and labeling him killer.If you and the rest will tell the truth why can't you come out that you are labelling him killer because of your brothers,members or groups he kills in Sodom and Gomarah and other places for practicing gay , lesbianism and paganism. Still go and know this that your master Satan does not love you all what his doing is to delude you. at the end he will make foolish of you and the blames will be on you for believing his delusion.
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by init4dmoni(m): 11:35am On Dec 09, 2012
Sometimes I sit and wonder why Nigeria is in its current state. Coming to nairaland usually clears that up. The level of ignorance possessed by many religious Nigerians is mind boggling. That, combined with the fact that the religion has been drilled into their minds constantly, to the point that anything other than it is blasphemy. The god of the bible killed countless innocent people and yet Christians choose to ignore it.
Ayomovic is the quintessential religious Nigerian, brainwashed to the point of no return. Anyone that "dares" point out any of the many fallacies in the bible is immediately labeled a devil worshiper. It truly is sad.
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by Nobody: 2:07pm On Dec 11, 2012
Ayomivic:
The world is really turning upside down now.In the world today theives has got theif-station. They now wanted to arrest police .Satan is now calling God devil.It's sign of End Time.

You said God kill babies and support killing, rape, stealing,etc. You are a liar like your master Satan.Who does not know that God did not like killing and all what you metioned ?or what are the commandments of God to us? You know his commandment but you will never talk the truth because there is no truth in you. I don't blame you because its the spirit of your master that is living in you and all his servants.The big diffrence between God and your Master (Satan or Devil ) is that God hate killing, rape,adultery, fornication,incest,gay ,lesbianism, etc and your master (Satan) like and love it.That is what you and the rest servants of your master want,that is why you are winning soul for your master because you think his the only one that can grant thes

If you will tell the truth, why did my God destroyed Sodom and Gomorah? Was it not because he did not grant them body freedom or body pleasure as you believe it to be, to practice gay and lesbianism that your master want for them? He makes them a scape goat,warning to people like you and because of that you people are rebelling against him and labeling him killer.If you and the rest will tell the truth why can't you come out that you are labelling him killer because of your brothers,members or groups he kills in Sodom and Gomarah and other places for practicing gay , lesbianism and paganism. Still go and know this that your master Satan does not love you all what his doing is to delude you. at the end he will make foolish of you and the blames will be on you for believing his delusion.

Shut up your mouth! You keep defending a God who goes against everything thing he says. Thou shalt not kill! And yet he kills for fun. How many people has Satan killed? None.

God of the bible is the originator of religious war,racism,genocide ,manipulation,fear,anything bad you can think of. Does Satan have a religion? None.
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by BOSSIFEANYI: 3:50pm On Oct 09, 2013
It's funny because all those accusing God of mass murder and genocide forget that those periods were in the old testament, the era of the law. If you're even a least bit conversant with the Bible you'd realize during that era of law, God punished the sins of man with death (the wages of sin is death. ROM 6:23; without the shedding of blood there shall be no remission of sin.HEB 9:22b).The blood of lambs or calves are used when the sins are not grievious but the life of the sinner is taken when it's a terrible offence (e.g adultry, idolatry).
But you all were quick to forget the ultimate sacrifice of Love God showed us mere mortals by giving up His only Son to die for us in order to redeem us and grant us salvation, even when He could have just wiped us out, since we're His creation in the first place. Now that's the true definition of Love.
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by Nobody: 10:43am On Jul 09, 2014
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Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by Weah96: 4:22pm On Jul 09, 2014
From my understanding, God made some sexual advances at the stunningly handsome Satan, and the behavior infuriated the lad. He tried to tell God that he wasn't into that s)hit but the old man wouldn't listen. He then proceeded to sodomize the youth repeatedly. After the r)ape, Lucifer gather some angels who had not yet been sodomized and told them what the old man had in store for them. Just like Catholics today, they couldn't accept that their leader was a homo, and reported Lucifer to you know who. Satan was imprisoned and tortured, even additional sodomy sessions were arranged. Finally, some of Lucifer's closest friends staged a daring rescue, many were lost in the process. But Lucifer managed to escape and vowed that he won't have a minute's rest unless he publicly sodomized God with the biggest available d.ildo for ruining his life. God has been covering his tracks ever since, although he occasionally allows a pregnant woman to be disemboweled in front of her spouse, just to see if he still has it in him. Satan wants to r)ape God back, not fight him.
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by qstar(m): 9:40pm On Jul 09, 2014
What ill has Satan ever done, safe for exposing man to knowledge. Satan did absolutely nothing else, except the ones god was his accomplice.

God is anti-knowledge. Created an imperfect and sheepish man. Satan had to accomplish God's work for Him.

Where's AlfaSeltzer?
Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by AlfaSeltzer(m): 11:30pm On Jul 09, 2014
Satan is exactly as Xtians make him to be. The problem is not Satan but illiterate Xtians cannot distinguish between good & evil.
Even when their own god wrote a book to tell them that he, their god, is the maker of evil, they still accuse Satan.

Example: Xtians say that hell is an evil place. Ask them who created this evil and they starting foaming for mouth.

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Re: Is Satan Really As Bad As Christians Make Him Out To Be? by Nobody: 2:14am On Jul 10, 2014
Ayomivic:
The world is really turning upside down now.In the world today theives has got theif-station. They now wanted to arrest police .Satan is now calling God devil.It's sign of End Time.

You said God kill babies and support killing, rape, stealing,etc. You are a liar like your master Satan.Who does not know that God did not like killing and all what you metioned ?or what are the commandments of God to us? You know his commandment but you will never talk the truth because there is no truth in you. I don't blame you because its the spirit of your master that is living in you and all his servants.The big diffrence between God and your Master (Satan or Devil ) is that God hate killing, rape,adultery, fornication,incest,gay ,lesbianism, etc and your master (Satan) like and love it.That is what you and the rest servants of your master want,that is why you are winning soul for your master because you think his the only one that can grant thes

If you will tell the truth, why did my God destroyed Sodom and Gomorah? Was it not because he did not grant them body freedom or body pleasure as you believe it to be, to practice gay and lesbianism that your master want for them? He makes them a scape goat,warning to people like you and because of that you people are rebelling against him and labeling him killer.If you and the rest will tell the truth why can't you come out that you are labelling him killer because of your brothers,members or groups he kills in Sodom and Gomarah and other places for practicing gay , lesbianism and paganism. Still go and know this that your master Satan does not love you all what his doing is to delude you. at the end he will make foolish of you and the blames will be on you for believing his delusion.

Don't feign ignorance of God murders dude. Suck it up because it was well documented as you can see below. Stop blaming the messenger. The bible is replete with several God ordered murders. Contrary to your assertions,Yaweh did not just like killing, he loved it.These are nothing but truisms:

The killing of Ethiopians/Africans:

So the LORD smote the Ethiopians ... they were destroyed before the LORD. 2 Chronicles 14.12-13. How many Africans killed? " There came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand." 2 Chronicles 14.9. Wow! This is one million people of our kind killed in one fell swoop. It has been projected that this killing is the largest, single, God-Ordered murder in the Bible. (And according to McEvedy and Jones, it would have killed five times the entire Ethiopian population at the time.) See Http://www.ldolphin.org/popul.html. Trust Yaweh, he reserved the worst massacres for Africans.

Kill Brats
From there Elisha went up to Bethel. While he was on his way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him. "Go up baldhead," they shouted, "go up baldhead!" The prophet turned and saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two shebears came out of the woods and tore forty two of the children to pieces. (2 Kings 2:23-24 NAB)

God Kills the Curious
And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, he smote of the people seventy men, `and' fifty thousand men; and the people mourned, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter. And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us? (1Samuel 6:19-20 ASV)

Killed by a Lion
Meanwhile, the LORD instructed one of the group of prophets to say to another man, "Strike me!" But the man refused to strike the prophet. Then the prophet told him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, a lion will kill you as soon as you leave me." And sure enough, when he had gone, a lion attacked and killed him. (1 Kings 20:35-36 NLT)

Killing the Good Samaritan
The ark of God was placed on a new cart and taken away from the house of Abinadab on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab guided the cart, with Ahio walking before it, while David and all the Israelites made merry before the Lord with all their strength, with singing and with citharas, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
When they came to the threshing floor of Nodan, Uzzah reached out his hand to the ark of God to steady it, for the oxen were making it tip. But the Lord was angry with Uzzah; God struck him on that spot, and he died there before God. (2 Samuel 6:3-7 NAB)


3) Murdering Children

Kill Sons of Sinners
Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants. (Isaiah 14:21 NAB)

God Will Kill Children
The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will die at birth or perish in the womb or never even be conceived. Even if your children do survive to grow up, I will take them from you. It will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone. I have watched Israel become as beautiful and pleasant as Tyre. But now Israel will bring out her children to be slaughtered." O LORD, what should I request for your people? I will ask for wombs that don't give birth and breasts that give no milk. The LORD says, "All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions. I will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels. The people of Israel are stricken. Their roots are dried up; they will bear no more fruit. And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children." (Hosea 9:11-16 NLT)

Kill Men, Women, and Children
"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told." (Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)

God Kills all the First Born of Egypt
And at midnight the LORD killed all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn son of the captive in the dungeon. Even the firstborn of their livestock were killed. Pharaoh and his officials and all the people of Egypt woke up during the night, and loud wailing was heard throughout the land of Egypt. There was not a single house where someone had not died. (Exodus 12:29-30 NLT)

Kill Old Men and Young Women
"You are my battle-ax and sword," says the LORD. "With you I will shatter nations and destroy many kingdoms. With you I will shatter armies, destroying the horse and rider, the chariot and charioteer. With you I will shatter men and women, old people and children, young men and maidens. With you I will shatter shepherds and flocks, farmers and oxen, captains and rulers. "As you watch, I will repay Babylon and the people of Babylonia for all the wrong they have done to my people in Jerusalem," says the LORD. "Look, O mighty mountain, destroyer of the earth! I am your enemy," says the LORD. "I will raise my fist against you, to roll you down from the heights. When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of rubble. You will be desolate forever. Even your stones will never again be used for building. You will be completely wiped out," says the LORD. (Jeremiah 51:20-26)
(Note that after God promises the Israelites a victory against Babylon, the Israelites actually get their butts kicked by them in the next chapter. So much for an all-knowing and all-powerful God.)

God Will Kill the Children of Sinners
If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will inflict you with seven more disasters for your sins. I will release wild animals that will kill your children and destroy your cattle, so your numbers will dwindle and your roads will be deserted. (Leviticus 26:21-22 NLT)

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)

Mass Murder/genocide

The much God-hated Amalekites:

This is what the Lord of hosts has to say: 'I will punish what Amalek did to Israel when he barred his way as he was coming up from Egypt. Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.' (1 Samuel 15:2-3 NAB).

God loved killing the Amalekites. “The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” (Exod 17:16).Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that "I utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”. And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner, saying, “A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” (Exod 17:14-16).

Fortunately, Moses' written memorial ensured that God did not "utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven" as he had wished or ordained. The genocide of these people still resonates and still stairs even ardent believers in the face. Even though they were wiped out many times, they somehow were resurrected for more killings for the sins that was allegedly committed more than 400 years prior. They were a resilient bunch these Amalekites. For more killing of Amalekites see 1 Samuel 30, 1 Samuel 27:8 Deuteronomy 25:17,19.

Mother of all murders:


The drowning of all his creations.

This is lifted from http://dwindlinginunbelief..com/2009/01/gods-killings-1-all-flesh-died-that.html#sthash.5WjShTZw.dpuf

"The LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Genesis 6.7
Behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. 6.17

Every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. 7.4

All flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 7.21-23

So the killing contest is over. God, in his very first killing, wins the prize. The guy who killed everything "on the face of the earth" is the world's top killer. He beats Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Ghengis Khan. All those guys. Maybe not in terms of the number killed, but certainly in percentage.
Well, the flood was supposed to have happened about 2400 BCE, and the human population was somewhere around 20 million at the time. (McEvedy and Jones 1978)

Not a bad start for a serial killer.
Estimated number killed: 20 million
Everyone on earth (except for Noah and his family)" So much for thou shall not kill.
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