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Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by obinna58(m): 2:20am On Feb 19, 2017
Amazing God indeed grin let's take a look at some of his powerful mysterious works in the bible.


1. God drowns the whole earth.
In Genesis 7:21-23, God drowns the entire population of the earth: men, women, children, fetuses, and perhaps unicorns. Only a single family survives. In Matthew 24:37-42, gentle Jesus approves of this genocide and plans to repeat it when he returns.

2. God kills half a million people.
In 2 Chronicles 13:15-18, God helps the men of Judah kill 500,000 of their fellow Israelites.

3. God slaughters all Egyptian firstborn.
In Exodus 12:29, God the baby-killer slaughters all Egyptian firstborn children and cattle because their king was stubborn.

4. God kills 14,000 people for complaining that God keeps killing them.
In Numbers 16:41-49, the Israelites complain that God is killing too many of them. So, God sends a plague that kills 14,000 more of them.

5. Genocide after genocide after genocide.
In Joshua 6:20-21, God helps the Israelites destroy Jericho, killing “men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.” In Deuteronomy 2:32-35, God has the Israelites kill everyone in Heshbon, including children. In Deuteronomy 3:3-7, God has the Israelites do the same to the people of Bashan. In Numbers 31:7-18, the Israelites kill all the Midianites except for the virgins, whom they take as spoils of war. In 1 Samuel 15:1-9, God tells the Israelites to kill all the Amalekites – men, women, children, infants, and their cattle – for something the Amalekites’ ancestors had done 400 years earlier.

6. God kills 50,000 people for curiosity.
In 1 Samuel 6:19, God kills 50,000 men for peeking into the ark of the covenant. (Newer cosmetic translations count only 70 deaths, but their text notes admit that the best and earliest manuscripts put the number at 50,070.)

7. 3,000 Israelites killed for inventing a god.
In Exodus 32, Moses has climbed Mount Sinai to get the Ten Commandments. The Israelites are bored, so they invent a golden calf god. Moses comes back and God commands him: “Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.” About 3,000 people died.

8. The Amorites destroyed by sword and by God’s rocks.
In Joshua 10:10-11, God helps the Israelites slaughter the Amorites by sword, then finishes them off with rocks from the sky.

9. God burns two cities to death.
In Genesis 19:24, God kills everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah with fire from the sky. Then God kills Lot’s wife for looking back at her burning home.

10. God has 42 children mauled by bears.
In 2 Kings 2:23-24, some kids tease the prophet Elisha, and God sends bears to dismember them. (Newer cosmetic translations say the bears “maul” the children, but the original Hebrew, baqa, means “to tear apart.”)

11. A tribe slaughtered and their virgins raped for not showing up at roll call.
In Judges 21:1-23, a tribe of Israelites misses roll call, so the other Israelites kill them all except for the virgins, which they take for themselves. Still not happy, they hide in vineyards and pounce on dancing women from Shiloh to take them for themselves.

12. 3,000 crushed to death.
In Judges 16:27-30, God gives Samson strength to bring down a building to crush 3,000 members of a rival tribe.

13. A concubine raped and dismembered.
In Judges 19:22-29, a mob demands to rape a godly master’s guest. The master offers his daughter and a concubine to them instead. They take the concubine and gang-rape her all night. The master finds her on his doorstep in the morning, cuts her into 12 pieces, and ships the pieces around the country.

14. Child sacrifice.
In Judges 11:30-39, Jephthah burns his daughter alive as a sacrificial offering for God’s favor in killing the Ammonites.

15. God helps Samson kill 30 men because he lost a bet.
In Judges 14:11-19, Samson loses a bet for 30 sets of clothes. The spirit of God comes upon him and he kills 30 men to steal their clothes and pay off the debt.

16. God demands you kill your wife and children for worshiping other gods.
In Deuteronomy 13:6-10, God commands that you must kill your wife, children, brother, and friend if they worship other gods.

17. God incinerates 51 men to make a point.
In 2 Kings 1:9-10, Elijah gets God to burn 51 men with fire from heaven to prove he is God.

18. God kills a man for not impregnating his brother’s widow.
In Genesis 38:9-10, God kills a man for refusing to impregnate his brother’s widow.

19. God threatens forced cannibalism.
In Leviticus 26:27-29 and Jeremiah 19:9, God threatens to punish the Israelites by making them eat their own children.

20. The coming slaughter.
According to Revelation 9:7-19, God’s got more evil coming. God will make horse-like locusts with human heads and scorpion tails, who torture people for 5 months. Then some angels will kill a third of the earth’s population. If he came today, that would be 2 billion people.

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by felixomor: 4:10am On Feb 19, 2017
So what point have u made now?
lipsrsealed
Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by Sammypedro18(m): 4:23am On Feb 19, 2017
Like you just said.. ....He is beyond human understanding, His ways/thoughts are different from d ways of man.
Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by ediama(m): 4:50am On Feb 19, 2017
someone must be in charged.
The motive behind the act is more important to me than the act itself.

GOD IS GOOD.

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by Jilo83(m): 5:56am On Feb 19, 2017
That is why He is God.
The more you know Him, the more u fear Him.
As merciful He is, He is also a terrible God.
Glory be to His holy name

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by greatgod2012(f): 6:07am On Feb 19, 2017
Jilo83:
That is why He is God.
The more you know Him, the more u fear Him.
As merciful He is, He is also a terrible God.
Glory be to His holy name




This your comment get as e be o............do you need to be terrible for your children to fear you You should have just said/typed......That's why He's called God! Anyway, it is well!




@post, hhhhmmmmmmm, these are parts of the scriptures that makes some people turned atheists. Even me sometimes ask why all these killings? But then, ..........I'm always told I ask too many unnecessary questions!

It is well!

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by fowosh: 6:21am On Feb 19, 2017
there are some write-ups DAT needs ignoring....its not all write-ups DAT u comment on.................
Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by randomperson: 7:40am On Feb 19, 2017
greatgod2012:





This your comment get as e be o............do you need to be terrible for your children to fear you You should have just said/typed......That's why He's called God! Anyway, it is well!




@post, hhhhmmmmmmm, these are parts of the scriptures that makes some people turned atheists. Even me sometimes ask why all these killings? But then, ..........I'm always told I ask too many unnecessary questions!

It is well!
The God of the bible is a god of the dark age. By the standards of those times, it was okay. But God should not be limited by morality of a particular age. God should have been ahead of time... That God doesn't exist.

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by Jilo83(m): 9:33am On Feb 19, 2017
greatgod2012:





This your comment get as e be o............do you need to be terrible for your children to fear you You should have just said/typed......That's why He's called God! Anyway, it is well!




@post, hhhhmmmmmmm, these are parts of the scriptures that makes some people turned atheists. Even me sometimes ask why all these killings? But then, ..........I'm always told I ask too many unnecessary questions!

It is well!

Ur understanding of God is too shallow.
Some study God to the lenth thinking they ve know everything about Him.
This is the being you can't understand. UNQUESTIONABLE, AWESOME GOD. ERUJEJE
Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by orunto27: 9:47am On Feb 19, 2017
Proverb: "You can't query a man for using his hands to massage his 'Joy Stick".
So you can't query God for designing, amending, cancelling and redesigning His Own Creations.
Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by otemanuduno: 10:11am On Feb 19, 2017
orunto27:
Proverb: "You can't query a man for using his hands to massage his 'Joy Stick".
So you mean human beings are the joysticks of God? No no no, we are better than that. We are God and not his joysticks, although some gods can reduce their own worshippers to joysticks for the purpose of masturba*ting them, but GOD ALMIGHTY, the father of Yahweh, Allah, Moloch, Enlil and Atum isn't one who reduce humanity to joysticks.

Orunto27:
So you can't query God for designing, amending, cancelling and redesigning His Own Creations.
God Almighty is Good but some of his sons are bad. I pray the light of GOD ALMIGHTY shine on you to make you know that God is not any of these gods who kill, murder, destroy, vandalise and ra*pe virgins. He is way too big to do such things.

I AM OTEM, SENT TO REVEAL THE TRUTH IN ALL THE LOST AND HIDDEN SCROLLS FROM THE TIME WHEN GOD ALMIGHTY FORMED THE UNIVERSE WITH THE FIRST BIG BANG TILL THE PRESENT AND TO THE TIMES IN THE FUTURE. MAY THE GOD ALMIGHTY OPEN THE EYES OF ALL CREATURES TO FIND HIM IN THEM, ASE!

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by blueAgent(m): 2:58pm On Feb 22, 2017
obinna58:

Amazing God indeed grin let's take a look at some of his powerful mysterious works in the bible.


1. God drowns the whole earth.
In Genesis 7:21-23, God drowns the entire population of the earth: men, women, children, fetuses, and perhaps unicorns. Only a single family survives. In Matthew 24:37-42, gentle Jesus approves of this genocide and plans to repeat it when he returns.

2. God kills half a million people.
In 2 Chronicles 13:15-18, God helps the men of Judah kill 500,000 of their fellow Israelites.

3. God slaughters all Egyptian firstborn.
In Exodus 12:29, God the baby-killer slaughters all Egyptian firstborn children and cattle because their king was stubborn.

4. God kills 14,000 people for complaining that God keeps killing them.
In Numbers 16:41-49, the Israelites complain that God is killing too many of them. So, God sends a plague that kills 14,000 more of them.

5. Genocide after genocide after genocide.
In Joshua 6:20-21, God helps the Israelites destroy Jericho, killing “men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.” In Deuteronomy 2:32-35, God has the Israelites kill everyone in Heshbon, including children. In Deuteronomy 3:3-7, God has the Israelites do the same to the people of Bashan. In Numbers 31:7-18, the Israelites kill all the Midianites except for the virgins, whom they take as spoils of war. In 1 Samuel 15:1-9, God tells the Israelites to kill all the Amalekites – men, women, children, infants, and their cattle – for something the Amalekites’ ancestors had done 400 years earlier.

6. God kills 50,000 people for curiosity.
In 1 Samuel 6:19, God kills 50,000 men for peeking into the ark of the covenant. (Newer cosmetic translations count only 70 deaths, but their text notes admit that the best and earliest manuscripts put the number at 50,070.)

7. 3,000 Israelites killed for inventing a god.
In Exodus 32, Moses has climbed Mount Sinai to get the Ten Commandments. The Israelites are bored, so they invent a golden calf god. Moses comes back and God commands him: “Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.” About 3,000 people died.

8. The Amorites destroyed by sword and by God’s rocks.
In Joshua 10:10-11, God helps the Israelites slaughter the Amorites by sword, then finishes them off with rocks from the sky.

9. God burns two cities to death.
In Genesis 19:24, God kills everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah with fire from the sky. Then God kills Lot’s wife for looking back at her burning home.

10. God has 42 children mauled by bears.
In 2 Kings 2:23-24, some kids tease the prophet Elisha, and God sends bears to dismember them. (Newer cosmetic translations say the bears “maul” the children, but the original Hebrew, baqa, means “to tear apart.”)

11. A tribe slaughtered and their virgins raped for not showing up at roll call.
In Judges 21:1-23, a tribe of Israelites misses roll call, so the other Israelites kill them all except for the virgins, which they take for themselves. Still not happy, they hide in vineyards and pounce on dancing women from Shiloh to take them for themselves.

12. 3,000 crushed to death.
In Judges 16:27-30, God gives Samson strength to bring down a building to crush 3,000 members of a rival tribe.

13. A concubine raped and dismembered.
In Judges 19:22-29, a mob demands to rape a godly master’s guest. The master offers his daughter and a concubine to them instead. They take the concubine and gang-rape her all night. The master finds her on his doorstep in the morning, cuts her into 12 pieces, and ships the pieces around the country.

14. Child sacrifice.
In Judges 11:30-39, Jephthah burns his daughter alive as a sacrificial offering for God’s favor in killing the Ammonites.

15. God helps Samson kill 30 men because he lost a bet.
In Judges 14:11-19, Samson loses a bet for 30 sets of clothes. The spirit of God comes upon him and he kills 30 men to steal their clothes and pay off the debt.

16. God demands you kill your wife and children for worshiping other gods.
In Deuteronomy 13:6-10, God commands that you must kill your wife, children, brother, and friend if they worship other gods.

17. God incinerates 51 men to make a point.
In 2 Kings 1:9-10, Elijah gets God to burn 51 men with fire from heaven to prove he is God.

18. God kills a man for not impregnating his brother’s widow.
In Genesis 38:9-10, God kills a man for refusing to impregnate his brother’s widow.

19. God threatens forced cannibalism.
In Leviticus 26:27-29 and Jeremiah 19:9, God threatens to punish the Israelites by making them eat their own children.

20. The coming slaughter.
According to Revelation 9:7-19, God’s got more evil coming. God will make horse-like locusts with human heads and scorpion tails, who torture people for 5 months. Then some angels will kill a third of the earth’s population. If he came today, that would be 2 billion people.






Clown ,who is supposed to forgive who. you or God? when you start making aleast a string of hair from nothing then i would take you serious.

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by InsanePsycho(m): 5:15pm On Feb 22, 2017
blueAgent:






Clown ,who is supposed to forgive who. you or God? when you start making aleast a string of hair from nothing then i would take you serious.



Address the op. If a human committed these things that god committed wouldn't you burn the person on the street as a Nigerian?

The bible god deserves jungle justice and a shot to the cranium

Oniranu imaginary being undecided

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by akintom(m): 6:49pm On Feb 22, 2017
The most pathetic part of this god delusion, of the Yahweh variant, is the romance with the Jewish Idol by Nigerians, in perpetuation of the colonial assault on the belief system of Nigerians.

It's amusing how at this age of easiest access to knowledge, Nigerian Christians will still be rating their traditional gods as idols, wicked, and dark.

While ascribing to the Jewish Idol, the title of God, good and light.

An act depicting a marriage of of absurdity and idiocy.

From the OP, how is Yahweh different from Ogun, Sango, amadioha, etc in act of horrendous wickedness?

Anywayz, it was the primitive men that invented these disgusting god idea, just to authorize and justify their savagery.

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by UyiIredia(m): 7:33pm On Feb 22, 2017
felixomor:
So what point have u made now? lipsrsealed
In other words, you are blind to reason.

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by avaa(m): 7:56pm On Feb 22, 2017
The bible is filled with so much shit I get irritated when another deluded Christian quotes it to me to prove the existence of their sky-dwelling fairy, Yahweh. Shame dey even catch me for them, because if my father did half of those horrible things, I would be the real devil's spawn not to disown him.

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by stuffsabouttara(f): 8:06pm On Feb 22, 2017
This has to be one of the funniest posts I've read all day. I still don't understand why God had to kill so much, I agree with the commenter that said he should have had a foresight of the future, the people that keep arguing he is God and so therefore should not be questioned blah blah blah only sound dumb to me, the one about we being joysticks is just plain hilarious I'm still rotfl. I don't understand religion, it comes with too many controversies and every time I ask questions, I keep getting the same looks like I need deliverance and the same "you shouldn't question everything" reply. I don't believe there is a God, but I don't carry it on my head either if he exists or not. I gave up on that long time ago and just settled for being an agnostic. I don't believe in Christians or Muslims or Atheists, I believe in good people and bad people and that sometimes, good people do bad things and bad people do good things.

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by felixomor: 8:23pm On Feb 22, 2017
UyiIredia:


In other words, you are blind to reason.

Please which reason?
Your own?
Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by Nobody: 12:30am On Feb 23, 2017
greatgod2012:





This your comment get as e be o............do you need to be terrible for your children to fear you You should have just said/typed......That's why He's called God! Anyway, it is well!




@post, hhhhmmmmmmm, these are parts of the scriptures that makes some people turned atheists. Even me sometimes ask why all these killings? But then, ..........I'm always told I ask too many unnecessary questions!

It is well!
Even Satan the supposed liar and destroyer didn't kill anyone in the bible..... Didn't even tell a lie...

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by blueAgent(m): 10:29am On Feb 23, 2017
InsanePsycho:


Address the op. If a human committed these things that god committed wouldn't you burn the person on the street as a Nigerian?

The bible god deserves jungle justice and a shot to the cranium

Oniranu imaginary being undecided





You answered your own question, you said if a Human being, well God is not a Human being ,He is the Alpha and Omega,The Almightly God,the I AM that IAM,The unquestionable God. get it into your thick skull.
Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by InsanePsycho(m): 10:53am On Feb 23, 2017
blueAgent:






You answered your own question, you said if a Human being, well God is not a Human being ,He is the Alpha and Omega,The Almightly God,the I AM that IAM,The unquestionable God. get it into your thick skull.

It is a product of your imagination. It is not real that is why it cannot be held accountable smiley

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by blueAgent(m): 9:58pm On Feb 24, 2017
InsanePsycho:


It is a product of your imagination. It is not real that is why it cannot be held accountable smiley




Clown
Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by InsanePsycho(m): 10:03pm On Feb 24, 2017
blueAgent:





Clown

Maga

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by oaroloye(m): 1:46am On Feb 25, 2017
SHALOM!

What us wrong with your BRAIN, that you cannot conceive that God is giving Believers in YAHSHUA an OPPORTUNITY not extended to those UNBELIEVERS?

YOUR SORT OF ATTITUDE IS THE REASON WHY ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE DIED WITHOUT MERCY!

. JOHN 3:1-21.

THERE was a man of the Pharisees,
named Nicodemus, a Ruler of the Jews:
2. The same came to Jesus by night,
and said unto him,
"Rabbi, we know
that thou art a Teacher
come from God:
for no man can do
these Miracles that thou doest,
except God be with him."
3. Jesus answered and said unto him,
"Verily, verily, I say unto thee,


'EXCEPT A MAN
BE BORN AGAIN,
HE CANNOT SEE
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.'


4. Nicodemus saith unto him,
"How can a man be born
when he is old?
Can he enter the second time
into his mother's womb,
and be born?"
5. Jesus answered,
"Verily, verily, I say unto thee,


'EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN
OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT,
HE CAN NOT ENTER INTO
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.'
[/b


6. "That which is Born of the Flesh is flesh;
and that which is Born of the Spirit is spirit.
7. "Marvel not that I said unto thee,


[b]'YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN.'


8. "The wind bloweth where it listeth,
and thou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh,
and whither it goeth:
so is every one that is Born of the Spirit.
9. Nicodemus answered and said unto him,
"How can these things be?"
10. Jesus answered and said unto him,
"Art thou a Master of Israel,
and knowest not these things?
11. "Verily, verily, I say unto thee,


'WE SPEAK THAT WE DO KNOW,
AND TESTIFY THAT WE HAVE SEEN;
AND YE RECEIVE NOT OUR WITNESS.'


12. "If I have told you Earthly Things,
and ye believe not,
how shall ye believe,
if I tell you of Heavenly Things?
13. "And no man hath ascended up to Heaven,
but he that came down from Heaven,
even the Son of Man which is in Heaven.
14. "And as Moses lifted up
the Serpent in the Wilderness,
even so must The Son of Man
be lifted up:
15. "That whosoever believeth in him
should not perish,
but have Eternal Life.
16. "For God so loved the World,
that He gave His only Begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him
should not Perish,
but have Everlasting Life.
17. "For God sent not His Son
into the World to Condemn the World;
but that the World through him
might be Saved.
18. "He that believeth in him
is not Condemned:
but he that believeth not
is Condemned Already,
because he hath not believed in
The Name of The Only
Begotten Son of God.
19. "And this is The Condemnation,


'THAT LIGHT IS COME
INTO THE WORLD,
AND MEN LOVED DARKNESS
RATHER THAN LIGHT,
BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS
WERE EVIL.'


20. "For every one that doeth Evil
hateth The Light,
neither cometh to The Light,
lest his deeds should be reproved.
21. "But he that doeth Truth
cometh to The Light,
that his deeds may be manifest,
that they are wrought in God."


DON'T YOU TNINK THAT IT WILL BE A TERRIBLE FEELING FIR YOU, TO BE WEEPING, WAILING, AND GNASHING YOUR TEETH IN HELL, WHILST YOUR PEERS, WHO TREATED GOD WITH RESPECT, ARE ENJOYING HIS BANQUET TABLE IN HEAVEN?
Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by KanwuliaExtra: 2:33am On Feb 25, 2017
Interesting. . . . grin
Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by orisa37: 4:25am On Feb 25, 2017
Mind Your Language and Understanding.
Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by otemanuduno: 7:59am On Feb 25, 2017
orisa37:
Mind Your Language and Understanding.

DOCTUFOS:
Aferk 10: 18-21

18. Behold, Yahweh and Alla have been cast into the cage which is spiritual. And they shall be judged by the mouths of the homos of the world for a thousand years.
19. For the judgement of a bad god are ridicules made by the mouths of those whom they have formally enslaved. For in the days when Baalim was captured by Yahweh, he was ridiculed by Elijah and other prophets of Yahweh.
20. And in the days when Molokoi was captured, he was ridiculed also.
21. Now if even the good gods who departed to make findings have been ridiculed, how much more shall the bad gods be ridiculed?

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by Nobody: 10:51am On Feb 25, 2017
God's commands to kill others in the Old Testament are among the most difficult for people to comprehend. Why would God demand the Israelites to kill entire groups of people? Why did God at times approve of genocide? Perhaps the best way to address this concern is to acknowledge that these commands took place within the context of wars between nations. In times of war, the options are to fight and win or to be
defeated. God had promised the Israelites they would be victorious and live in the land of Israel. To do so included defeating the already violent nations living in that land. In the defeat of an opponent in war during ancient times, the conquering side had to deal with the inevitable issue of the survivors. Would they keep surviving soldiers, women, and children alive and make them servants, or was it better to completely destroy the opposing force? Apparently due to both the violent nature of the Canaanites and neighboring groups as well as their worship of other gods, the Lord declared these enemies were to be completely destroyed.
Again, such a choice seems extreme and unthinkable in today's world. Yet from the Israelite perspective, keeping enemies alive caused the following: First, survivors would have the potential to later oppose the Israelites in war. Second, and more importantly, the survivors could cause spiritual harm through the worship of other gods. God's commands in these situations were to kill everyone in the community instead.
Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by Niflheim(m): 12:01pm On Mar 03, 2017
@obinna58,

Jeeez man!!! Your knowledge of the buybull(buy bullshit), is far greater than that of "AdeboYEYE" and "OyedePOO" combined!!!

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by obinna58(m): 12:17pm On Mar 03, 2017
Niflheim:
@obinna58,

Jeeez man!!! Your knowledge of the buybull(buy bullshit), is far greater than that of "AdeboYEYE" and "OyedePOO" combined!!!
grin grin

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Re: Is God Really Worth Forgiving, Let's Take A Look At Crimes He Committed In Bible by Earth2Metahuman: 12:24pm On Mar 03, 2017
felixomor:
So what point have u made now? lipsrsealed
that god is psychopathic killing machine.
Even hitler is a joke compared to god.

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