Why did God command the OT killing of women and children?

“Why did God command the OT killing of women and children?"
Dr. Theodore Cabal answers in Honest Answers | Episode 68
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[@9livesmatter576]

"He waited until their sins were full." Makes me think of the direction our country and the world have come. God help us.

[@j.dieason7527]

I agree with you. However God is just, and always good. His will be done. But yea very scary to think of. What great patients the lord displays though huh?

[@mehmetsimsek4794]

@@j.dieason7527 however?! Isn't according to whatever God does automatically just? He was just when he is exterminating cananites, so he is right to be worried, God can do the same thing to your country and still would be just

[@j.dieason7527]

@@mehmetsimsek4794 correct but we also must remember prior to him destroying Gomorrah and sodom. Abraham asked if God would spare the city even if only a few good ppl were present and God said he would. Yes this world is evil , but not all who live in it are. Be blessed and have a great new yr

[@mehmetsimsek4794]

@@j.dieason7527 really? So God never saved a few believer and destroyed rest of the people? (This is a rhetorical question we both know the answer). And my comment was just to point out something. Looking for" just" here meaningless. Once you say "God is just" and everything he does is just there is no possible way for him being unjust, you are accepting from the start that everything thing he does is just. So what is unjust here, nothing! What action would be unjust for God, again nothing? I don't know do you see the problem here? If we return to the first comment here? God can do whatever he is afraid of. Saying don't be afraid God is just is not a calmer. God can eliminate all the human race and according to you he would still be just. Do you know what orthodox means? This is exactly like that. They are the one true denomination and all others are wrong. Why? Because that is what orthodox means. And happy new year too

[@thebumblebeemovie3514]

I realized the same thing. It’s scary. The thing with the canaanites, sodom and Gomorrah, and the peoples before the flood is that they were given chances to change multiple times. God’s witnesses were present and it was very likely that they warned the peoples that this would happen, but they refused to listen and refused to change. Murderers and rapists unwilling to change deserve death, each of these people displayed those things and refused to change, even with the intervention and chances. Imagine what would happen with our own country if it’s people are unwilling to change from its perverse and child grooming ways?

[@ABIELYASHARAHLA]

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭55:8‬ ‭KJV‬‬

[@lovegod9045]

Amen to that. God revealed Himself enough so that we could be saved. He has hidden things from us because we would never understand the mind of God.

[@ABIELYASHARAHLA]

@@lovegod9045 it’s nice to hear someone with some sense of the Lord’s wisdom. 👍

[@ReasonQuest]

Classic go-to verse for people who don't want to accept the Bible's stories. If "God" gave us a brain, and created us in "his" image, he did a pretty poor job of giving us enough sense to follow him. I'm glad I don't have to accept the "God's ways are not our ways," excuse anymore.

[@mnm8818]

@@ReasonQuest all makes complete sense, if you swap God for a Governor of ancient Israel, who became like Pharoah, a 'god' ruler...

[@joelsam1282]

"Not just the men, but the women and children too" - Anakin Skywalker

[@kevinkeyes6625]

Your defense sucks

[@joelsam1282]

@@kevinkeyes6625 lmao it's a meme, not a defense

[@daniellemeyer8568]

@@kevinkeyes6625 Anakin's defense sucks. He didn't have the high ground.

[@benjaelee]

ah yes, a man of culture i see

[@davidweigel2238]

There are over 3,000 children killed each day in the US, in a place that should be the safest place…a mother’s womb.

[@britmissions]

Thank you Dr. Cabal and God bless you!! And can I just say that I am so thankful that the time and effort was taken to put this content out there to answer difficult questions.

[@nihilistic7840]

Why not tell them what they did? Putting living children on the red hot arms of a metal statue until they burnt to death. Historical texts say they played drums loudly so that the parents would not hear their screams.

[@jmar5785]

Anil G the work of man. Definitely not ordained by god.

[@makingsense1970]

Jamie Marshall maybe he should have just shouted, “Oi! Stop it!” What kind of a wimpy, weak ass god is this.

[@joepineapples9332]

Which "historical " texts would they be pal,please leave a link to them ,hopefully not that horeshit old testament crap that thinks that Noah was 500 years old and that two penguins managed to walk all the way to the middle east to get on a cruise ship with a bunch of lions and tigers.let us know what those texts are,cheers.

[@makingsense1970]

Joepineapples 9 : but god is magical. He can do anything. He could get those penguins there sharpish!

[@angelusvastator1297]

@@joepineapples9332 Look up Carthage human sacrifice.

[@MasterSpade]

at 1:55 you said "god alone is a righteous judge". First Prove that your specific 'god' even exists, THEN we'll discuss if he is a "righteous judge".

[@elymX]

This is a question that is beyond human understanding, I will ask god myself when the time comes.

[@vlahblah4785]

But if you can’t even comprehend the question then how can you comprehend the answer 🤨

[@adenjones1802]

We are supposed to comprehend it. Thats why it was written. These religions believe it was divinely inspired. Why would God authorise this is it had no reason behind it? Unless it was not authorised.

[@tyman7156]

Amen. You can ask him now.

[@tyman7156]

Just know that nothing is ever Gods fault.

[@muigabriel8328]

@@tyman7156 everything is gods full of omniscient and omnipotent he did all of he's killings for no reason just because they believe in other gods, he was just jealous, instead of giving them some justified reason that he is a God, then why kill them, if god's so smart why not just prove he's god why kill them

[@troyshrader3949]

This all sounds great but it sucks for the little kids that were just playing outside and all of a sudden soldiers pick them up stone them all and then burn their bodies. I'm a Christian but I was struggle with this.

[@jettruth]

Age doesn’t matter for a timeless God. He knows all the Canaanite children were going to be just like their parents. God alone knows our futures and is a perfect judge. Even if God kills someone who is saved then we know they’re going straight to Heaven in which case it’s not a bad thing to get to Heaven sooner. It’s all part of His plan.

[@963freeme]

​@jettruth No. Satan is the God of this world. What's the name of the God you worship? If it's YHWH then...Psalms 18:8. Revelation 12:9. YHWH is a Dragon aka Satan. Allah is also Satan. Isaiah 14: 12 Rev. 22: 16. JC is Lucifer. Acts 7: 43 Star of David is Star of Moloch.

[@lexyls4777]

God gave them hundreds of years to repent out of mercy but they didn’t

[@andrewmcnaught4523]

Source: God's covenent with Abraham in Genesis 14 or 15 (around there).

[@beiyongzui]

Did God gave the babies hundreds of years to repent?

[@lexyls4777]

@@beiyongzui In exodus 19:5 God visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the 3rd and 4th generations .

[@beiyongzui]

@@lexyls4777 not answering my question.

[@Submission.]

@@lexyls4777 Why did your God ( jesus) order the killing of innocent children and infants 🚼 ?

[@alguno1010101]

Because ancient Israelites made up God to have a religious justification for their wars

[@JamesRichardWiley]

You nailed it.

[@jackjones3657]

Protecting a God-fearing people from those who, after being given every opportunity to repent and turn from evil do not, that is a LOVING thing. God judges because He alone has the ultimate right to do so. And He protects those who fear/revere Him in the process. We're all prone to do it but it is the height of arrogance for a finite human to feel we can judge God by our superficial standards.

[@kazmiller96]

The real height of arrogance is telling your children that you know everything and every choice you made was indeed the right one. Then, telling them that questioning you is a capital offense.

[@sids5002]

@Eddie 1967 If he is happy to create sentient and feeling human beings, then slaughter them, he sounds truly awful!!! He also, sounds imperfect, as he must have made mistakes in their creation!! Either way, not really worthy of admiration is he?

[@julianmarsh1378]

total and complete nonsense...God had the power to simply remove them peacefully from the Promise Land but chose instead to have them slaughtered even when the Hebrews hesitated to commit genocide. A monster.

[@Cole-Thinks-Things]

No Jack. We're judging God by HIS* standards. You see the difference? And God said - Thou shalt not kill... Unless I don't like someone. Then thou shalt kill all of the Men, women and children. AND even the animals because I am a merciful god. . . Except don't kill the virgin girls. You keep them of course. After you sacrifice a portion of them to me. You keep the rest. And if you have the reading comprehension of a 5th grader I think you can figure out WHY God specified VIRGIN girls. I'll give you a hint - it wasn't because they were really smart and we're valued for their book learnin's

[@arpthirteen6713]

So how will God judge the devil if he created him to be evil?

[@AnnemieM]

If a good person is told to go and kill everybody, including children, these killers would end up with post traumatic stress disorder. I can not imagine it any other way.

[@radijaye7435]

I think according to Christian he will get a bonus from the holy spirit

[@peteralleyman1945]

72 virgins! Or was that another religion?

[@michaelhoward5628]

Merciful warning to be very afraid of the one who loves you. Yep! Makes sense to me.

[@Jesus_Saves_66]

Funny how if someone sinned against you by killing your family, you would want justice on them and probably ask for the death penalty? Why is it when God wants the same death penalty for those who have sinned against Him, you complain?

[@michaelhoward5628]

God’s Child There is a big difference between sinning and killing someone. You are right. If someone killed my family and I could snap them out of existence I would most assuredly do so. However I am unable to do so. If I killed them on my own I would be deemed a murderer and punished accordingly. So I would be forced by our laws to let justice be served. God does not need to resort to bloody savagery by his followers, when he can snap the offenders out of existence. If god asked you to gut your neighbors pregnant wife, would you do so?

[@chrishardin3672]

Michael Howard, scripture speaks. Let me better say, God speaks. He is the only being of existence worthy to order such things and still be holy. The only reason men cannot seek out justice by paying vengeance back to those who wrong, is because we are sinful beings ourselves and are not worthy to be judge, jury, and executioner. God is. And sin against God, is the most offensive and corrupt act we as humans make no matter the form it takes. Sin is sin. And God will judge sin. And He is all righteous and just in doing so. I would ask you, why would you judge God’s actions of rightful holy justice when you are a sinful human being with a fallen and finite sense of morality and justice as all humans, even and in fact especially including me, are? We must not make the mistake of 1. Forgetting God is all righteous and Holy, and the only one able to bring absolute justice beyond fallen and finite human terms 2. That God is GOD and His sense of Justice and Morality is not of human finiteness- therefore, when we sin against him, it is spitting on and rejecting the almighty, Holy God who created us and that sin demands not our sense of fallen justice and morality, but God’s all Righteous and all Holy justice

[@michaelhoward5628]

@@chrishardin3672 I do not believe in any god and I especially don’t believe in a god who would assign his followers to commit murder and abortion wiping out an entire population when he could have blinked them out of existence. I do not wear the label sinner. I am simply put an imperfect human being. If you feel comfortable wearing the sinner please do.

[@angelusvastator1297]

@@michaelhoward5628 Except that the followers in question had legal authority and were justified.

[@IFledFromKansas]

It amazes me that people just parrot "He's righteous" or "Because he's god" every time yahweh condones slavery, genocide, rape, or brutal torture.

[@testingspirits7446]

God does not do evil. Jesus says, ‘You will know them by their fruits.’

[@juliemauger6183]

God works in the universe, and often that has meant He has brought judgement on various peoples. The killing of the Canaanites happened at a specific time in history long past. Contrary to the Canaanites being innocent people, they were engaged in child sacrifice in their worship of Baal & other questionable moral issues such as the use of temple prostitutes.. God uses the Israelites as His weapon to bring about judgement on the Canaanites. God ordered the complete obliteration of the Canaanites to ensure these rituals were abandoned. Unfortunately, the Israelites spared many of the Canaanites, & began worshipping their idols & false gods, & engaging in the atrocities the Canaanites practised. They forsook their Lord. For this reason, after Israel was established in the promised land, God used Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to bring judgement on the Israelites. God calls Nebuchadnezzar "my servant;" even though he was a pagan king, Nebuchadnezzar was being used by God to bring judgement on His own people. God's judgement is always fair - it is never undeserved. God used nations to bring judgement on other nations in the Old Testament. Many Christians, myself included, still believe God brings judgement on the nations today.

[@thevirtuouswoman7172]

Because of RETALIATION!!! In the Bible Jezebel was killed as so was her children except for one her daughter Athaliah... Athaliah made it her mission to Massacre the Hebrews and Hebrew babies on a very big scale.. and that's just one person.. Now with that in mind just imagine if God spared all the childrens and the retaliation that would had followed also the children did not comment or have a chance to follow any wicked deeds so there's salvation was saved also

[@IFledFromKansas]

@@testingspirits7446 We must just have different definitions of the word "Evil".

[@Charlie94781]

@@juliemauger6183 did the Canaanites really sacrifice children or was that just god spreading malicious accusations?

[@austinschwartz7424]

as a Christian, I find that there is one thing that he missed that should be understood. The reason Yahweh repeatedly gives for the extermination of the Canaanites is that it is their judgment for their sin and rebellion against Him (Gen. 15:16; 18:20-21; Lev. 18:20-30; Deut. 7:3-4; 9:4-5). The Canaanites, as a whole culture, committed sins of idolatry, holy temple prostitution, adultery, homosexuality, incest, murder, bestiality, gang rape, and child sacrifice. Though other cultures also participated in some of these practices, it was the widespread involvement and acceptance of these sins that brought the Canaanites under Yahweh’s judgment. These sins exist in every culture, then and now, but are forbidden by most governments and are socially condemned by the majority of people in the culture. However, in Canaanite culture, these sins were pretty much universally practiced and accepted because this is what their gods were like. Not only did they declare these acts as righteous morality, but they also participated in these acts in the worship of their gods as a means of gaining the gods’ approval. And as he correctly pointed out God has stayed his hand until they had been degraded by generations of evil. Most readers can understand the men being killed, but Yahweh’s command of the death of the women and children is much harder to understand. The women were killed because they participated in violence, child sacrifices, bestiality, and sexual immorality just as much as the men did. The women would often fight in battles and participate with the men in the cutting off of their enemies’ heads and hands. They would often seduce men from other villages so that their men could kill them (Judg. 16:4-22). They also willingly offered their own children as a burnt sacrifice. The idea that women are more righteous or less sinful is a modern-day myth. now as for children I know that it's hard to believe but children can fight in wars there are stories of children fighting children as young as 8 who have been known to be Indoctrinated into fighting wars. And the Jewish people had a right to defend themselves even if that means they had to kill a child in self-defense. but notice that he commanded to kill all the Canaanites *all those who refused to leave* not necessarily those who were left behind I.E baby if you remember in the book of Genisis God and Abraham asked God if he would destroy Sodom and Gomorrah for the sake of50 then 40 and ultimately 10 righteous men ultimately there was only one Lot and what happened to Lot he was spared. I think that if there were any 3-month-old babies that had been left behind that the Jews would not kill them as they were not old enough to be judged by there own or there fathers actions as they could be adopted into a Jewish family and the familly of God.

[@mehmetsimsek4794]

I wonder where does it say in the Bible The Canaanites were doing idolatry, holy temple prostitution, adultery, homosexuality, incest, murder, bestiality, gang rape, and child sacrifice. Oh right, it doesnt.

[@tds7745]

Leviticus 18:24-25; 20:22-24 and in Dt 9:5; 12:29-31. And (1 Kings 14:24; 21:26; 2 Kings 16:3; 17:8; 21:2). Genesis 6. Genesis 15. There is a book called Unseen Realm by heiser if you want to deep dive into it as well.

[@boldsquared7276]

Is there a specific verse that says, "All who refused to leave." Or is it due to people like Rehab obviously knowing destruction was imminent yet not leaving. Apologies if it's obvious, but I've listened to multiple videos on this subject and I'm very tired.

[@tds7745]

@@boldsquared7276 Rahab was saved because of her faith in God. Joshua 2. Joshua 6:25. Mathew 1:5. Hebrews 11:31. James 2:25. Not sure the exact thing you are looking for but try Joshua 2:19.

[@garydmcgath]

There's no problem. Some people thousands of years ago invented a bloodthirsty story of exterminating their enemies, just as many other cultures did, and offered God as an excuse. To say that this story is about a "just God" is an affront to everything that's good and an excuse for mass murder.

[@marcellofunhouse1234]

when God commands killing it's not murder

[@garydmcgath]

@@marcellofunhouse1234 Yup, the Bin Laden doctrine.

[@bgarrison67]

To eliminate the corrupted seed of the fallen ones

[@taye7968]

So you hear voices in your head and decide that those voices are "god" and you kill ppl? You guys need to admitted.

[@brokengirl8619]

Who's you guys? The holy spirit never told me to kill anyone. In fact he says the opposite. Do good.

[@buhans2160]

@@brokengirl8619 thats Alcohol..not a spirit

[@carolwilliams5337]

Good answer. Man always seeks to justify himself and underestimate his own sinfulness. God is more Holy than we can imagine, yet we accuse God of unrighteousness

[@kingkunta9505]

Killing babies is righteous how?

[@carter5007]

@@kingkunta9505 Life is in the hands of the Creator. Abortions in the womb, 2 weeks old, 90 years old he has the authority over human life because he created it. Why command another human to kill to bring the baby home to heaven, or why allow the baby to be created to then die? I don’t know with certainty. My knowledge is limited. Personal opinion/theory: The souls in order to be entered into his kingdom must be born of the flesh first. That is why we must be “born again” in the spirit. Because the original birth must take place before the spiritual birth. What I am saying is the flesh must be birthed and then the spirit birth in order to get to heaven. Why did God not just let the baby die in the sleep rather than killed by another human? I don’t have the mind of God. PS. Conception could be considered a flesh birth as the separate DNA is created at that point.

[@cheryllunn2827]

Because he was a blood thirsty dictator. If he ever existed. Or, he made a lit of mistakes. He's supposed to be infallible! If I killed all my neighbors for the same reason, I'd get the death penalty. I was raised in the bible. Spent years in bible study. I am an atheist now. The mental gymnastics you have to use to justify these horrible mass slaughters of people in God's name is amazing.

[@sids5002]

@@carter5007 You are literally justifying the murder of humans by your god, just because he created them. How evil is that? Your god sounds truly awful.

[@ueks69]

The easy answer and most obvious, There is no god

[@covertgreen]

how can some people justify such murder and genocide? unbelievable...and they actually believe they are saved and going to heaven...lol

[@iconlex]

I think he nailed it. This was a different time, a much harsher existence where grace (via Jesus) was not yet introduced. Payment was not yet met for man’s sins; thus, God was in the position of Judge on a much different level. God had to take stricter measures to separate the Israelites from other cultures and people. If God did not, we’d see another episode like what took place with mankind prior to the flood. All of mankind became utterly evil, with no hope and no possibility of change. They were doomed. Humans were only fortunate enough that one family (Noah) still served what which was good, and that was God. God had no choice but to wipe the entire earth and start over with this family, because mankind would have destroyed themselves anyhow. I don’t think God had any pleasure having women and children systematically decimated, but He also had no other options. If the Israelites got corrupted (and they almost have on many occasions), and were ruined utterly as a nation, then we’d have no Jesus. No Jesus, no payment for sin, no payment for sin, the destruction of mankind is secured.

[@mjolnir9855]

A Nagle , so an omnipotent God, who can do anything, had no other option? Nah. Try again.

[@iconlex]

@@mjolnir9855 doesn't work that way. Read your Bible.

[@mjolnir9855]

@@iconlex Not a legitimate answer to my response. Not only did you limit God, and did not give me a biblical response as to why God couldn't handle this a different way, but it's also inconsistent contradictory with the character of God. There's actually a better answer to this problem. Might wanna take your own advice and go read your bible as well.

[@iconlex]

@@mjolnir9855 your response alone demonstrates your character, which would make me question your understanding of Gods character. Yes, I do believe God is sovereign and omnipotent, but He restricts himself. He will never override your will, he can never lie, he can never change, etc. He is all-powerful but that doesn't mean he overrides his principles. Read 2 Peter 3:9. He wills that all men come to repentance, but do all men come? No. So there are things that extend beyond His will. Does it make him less omnipotent? No. He restricts himself due to his own character. There are plenty of examples. Be blessed man.

[@mjolnir9855]

@@iconlex Yet God displayed his power in such a way with Paul to make his self known that it was too persuasive and needn't override his free will. Try again, you're getting off on strawman arguments.

[@pridepotterz6564]

If you can’t convince them…confuse them. Fact is…any rational human sees the drowning, burning, and slashing of innocent children as evil. Regardless of what their “pagan” parents did.

[@vj9695]

U have problem with god killing children but u are fine with abortion, so hypocritical

[@apracity7672]

@@michaelfourie345 the irony in you saying that you take problem with adults believing in what they believe and them asking for other people to respect their beliefs, yet here you are, by your own free will, coming on Christian youtube channels and commenting everywhere to complain about their beliefs

[@eccolibri]

@@apracity7672 This channel is CNN. I'm pretty sure the C does not stand for Christian.

[@wildbillhackett]

Not just men, women, and children, but their animals too.

[@asgaard636]

That's right- If it was breathing, it died.

[@hunfelicia]

Thank you, Brother, it was very necessary teaching.

[@catherinesummers5057]

Anyone who questions the morality of God is self contradicting because you are applying the moral laws given by God Himself. That said, the corruption of humanity with fallen angels which destroys the ' seed of Adam' answers this dilemma for anyone who takes the Bible literally

[@mjolnir9855]

Catherine Summers, if God have a righteous law, and He is also righteous, and the law is a display of the Righteousness of God, then it is inconsistent to break His own laws. We are using God’s law as the standard, not our own. God says “do not murder” yet he murders. This is inconsistent with his nature if his laws are moral commands which display his character.

[@ballasog]

This is stupid.

[@joshuaenodien3853]

@@mjolnir9855 The laws are applied to us not him

[@heyguysitsmichael7183]

I’ve read a lot of the comments and I suggest instead of trying to find the answer just accept that we are human and we don’t understand the works of god, and maybe that’s part of the test. What I do know is he does things for the greater good.

[@hillarycolen1163]

So god expects us to understand and follow moral ethics but god doesn't follow his own laws.....'so Orwellian.! Seems like proof that gods are half-baked human creations.

[@heyguysitsmichael7183]

hillary Colen the problem with some of us humans is that we want an answer to things, my answer: we have to accept

[@nybfbg9442]

@@heyguysitsmichael7183 Its a funny thing, but atheists demand certain answers until atheism itself is questioned. Then its " We have to accept some uncertainty."

[@muigabriel8328]

I am not accepting some guy who killed thousands because Some parts of its country is evil, all the massacres he has done is not justified, saying it that's him teaching them a lesson is justified is not common sense just cause people don't believe at something they didn't have any evidence of existing is "not believing"

[@watchman895]

Right we can't undersrand His great intension. But i think the cannaites were not pure humanbeings. They were like beasts without souls. We can assume that according to the Bible. Fallen angels had interevened into human history. They had tried to confused human genes with animals or another things. Because the Messiah would come to this world as a pure human being. Satan and his fallen angels had known about it, so they tried to mix human genes with anythingelse. The cannanites also were mixtures by fallen angels (or Nephilim) 's experiments. The book of jude expresses them as other fleshes. It means that they were like zombies and they could contaminate all the people in this world. To prevent that contaminatoin God had ordered his people to kill the canaanites even children.

[@user-py6hf7sp6b]

Thanks for taking the time to explain this ❤

[@kurtfrederiksen5538]

So if I am getting this right, through God everything can be made moral? Or in other words whatever God says is moral, so if God tells me to nuke this planet so everyone dies, that is completely moral, same if he tells me to sleep with my own children? I guess this kinda makes sense, in Genesis God intentionally created humans without the ability to know good from evil, then subsequently punished us when we stole the ability from him. Though that only makes him out to be the bad guy, sounds like he just created us to uncritically and unquestionably obey and worship him. If God created everything in the garden of Eden perfectly, then why cannot we use the ability to distinguish of good and evil to judge him?

[@neilsiebenthal9254]

It's simple, if you don't believe in God you have no good morals. What are good morals? Well if you're religious it's whatever God says and does, which is why humans have been killing each other for centuries thinking it's a good thing. If you're not religious, it's based on what makes people happy, healthy, and not suffer. Which makes nonreligious people immoral.. Because only moral people rationalize genocide, rape and torture... That's what religion teaches at least, to those that actually read the Bible.

[@KolbyKHart]

Hey! Good points/questions here! Shows your thinking through it all a lot and that’s respectable! I think the phrasing “we stole” the knowledge of good and evil is a slight change in phrasing but a big change in meaning. What I mean by that is if you read through genesis and look at the historical context of the passages, it’s clear that the age old scenario is set in motion right from the start. God creates us, God loves us, he wants us to love him, in order to have true love we need free will (otherwise we are robots), in order to have free will we have the ability to NOT choose God. So it wasn’t a matter of God putting our childlike hand “near the hot stove” so to speak. But moreso him giving up some of his power to say, I love humanity enough to give them a choice. So it’s not that we “stole” the knowledge of good and evil, but rather that it would be unloving for God to NOT give us the ability to choose it. For example, what if after 20 years of marriage, your wife said “I’ve been forced to love you by a man hiding behind the scenes” would you still consider that true love? Or even more, would you continue to say the two of you love each other going forward? In my opinion, no you would not. Hopefully that makes sense. I struggle with questions like this a lot but it’s also good to ask them and think critically! I commend you my friend!

[@kurtfrederiksen5538]

​@@KolbyKHart I will concede that the "we stole" is a bit of hasty wording on my part. As how does one steal from a being that is both maximally knowing and maximally powerful? Though further reflection on this revelation only makes things worse. God created the garden and man and women without the ability to determine good from evil. He also created the serpent with full knowledge that it would tempt Eve and she would lack the ability to determine what she was doing is wrong. As they say "Qui tacet consentire videtur"; humanity did not steal the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, we took it with complete consent of God. At any point God could of intervened or ejected the serpent from paradise. He had knowledge of what was going on, he had the power to trivially prevent it from happening and yet he did not. God could of given Eve the ability to not be deceived by the serpent... wait the serpent did not deceive her, as far as I can tell it was the only character in this story which consistently told the truth. God said that if they ate the fruit from good and evil they would surely die, they ate and did not die (it logically follows that they were not immortal due to needing to also eat from the tree of life, so death had already entered Eden). The serpent said that if they ate the fruit from the tree of good and evil they would become more like God, which is what happened. So perhaps God should of given them the ability to know good and evil from the start so that they would know what they did was wrong. This would at least mean that when Eve was tempted she would actually be able to make a moral choice. Then you run into the morality of punishing another being for doing something it has no capacity to know is wrong. Do you toss your dog out on the street because it ran off when someone else called it? Or do you accept that your dog is not able to act as a moral agent (know good and evil) and should not be punished for the act? This is only further compounded, not only were Adam and Eve saddled with this punishment but all of their decedents. That seems like an inequitable punishment. If God is the one who makes the rules who gets into heaven and the duration and scope of the punishment he could of removed it at any time. Instead he decides he is going to spend an insignificant amount of time among us then sacrifice himself (in the son form) to himself (in the God form) so that he would change his own mind about a rule he made. It appears the entire sacrifice was trivial unnecessary and was only done as a form of self aggrandizement. As to the issue of free will, God still could of stepped and prevented Eve from taking the apple at any point and she still would have free will. This is the same as you stepping in to prevent your kid from drinking bleach, it does nothing to stifle their free will, nor does doing so show that you do not love them by removing their choice. As for it being unloving for God to not give us the choice, I would agree if he also gave them the ability to act as moral agents and at least to some extent understand the ramifications of their actions. However, he intentionally deprived Adam and Eve of this and then punished them when they acted on this lack of knowledge. Honestly, the more I read the bible the more I see a textbook case of a gaslighting.

[@KolbyKHart]

@@kurtfrederiksen5538 100% see where you’re coming from! When I was in the darkest part of my life, these are the questions I asked. Which are all essentially asking “why God?” for a lot of different scenarios/situations. My main push back would be on the serpent point. To say that the serpent told the truth and was the only one to do so is falling into the very trap the serpent has always used. If I were someone’s enemy, I would tell them truth mixed with lies. In this case, the serpent does just that by saying “you surely will not die” (the lie) and then combining that with a truth “you will be like God knowing good from evil”. Mankind would not have death if it weren’t for the fall, that much is clear. But we do know good and evil. So Eve buys into the statement and the rest is history. As for why God did not intervene, again I would go back to my original question of “what is more loving”? I see what you are getting at with the bleach analogy. But let’s take that further. What if we made the bleach represent the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If I simply took the bleach away, does the child to choose to obey me? Sure there’s no bleach to worry about, but what if someone else introduces it, is the child equipped to resist? Let’s take it further, when a parent raises a child, you can try to control everything they see and touch and experience, but would it be loving to confine them to a room with 0 chance of danger or corruption or outside influence? My point being, even as humans we understand that for a relationship to be real and for life to be genuine, we have to let others choose. That’s why parents raise up their children the best they can and send them off into the world, even knowing that harm could come to them. And, in Genesis, we read that we are the children, God is our father, and we chose against him. Yet he loved us enough to give us that choice. Which in my opinion, is wild and crazy. But it’s also so true cause it’s the only way it makes sense. Sure, have God take out the tree from the garden, but what happens the next time a choice is to be made by humanity? One misconception I had growing up was the mentality that “oh I wouldn’t have done what Adam and Eve did” I would have chosen God. But sadly that’s just not true. That’s why the world is broken because we like to try to be our own gods and if everyone thinks they are god, chaos follows. History proves that much. When “Christians” claimed a holy war on outsiders, they took themselves as gods and slaughtered countless, when Stalin thought himself a god over his people, millions died, genghis khan, hitler, British empire with her colonies, Americans with the Native American tribes. The list goes on and on through all of human history. So yes, the serpent surely was lying by saying “you surely will not die”. In my life so far and research I’ve done, all I see is death in this world! It’s crazy haha. With all that being said tho, I like your train of thought and how carefully your thinking things through! I would really encourage you to read two books: The Screwtape Letters, and the book of Job (in the Bible). Read those with an open mind and then see what conclusions you draw! Wish you the best though man, this was fun!

[@kurtfrederiksen5538]

​@@KolbyKHart I would push back on the idea that death was not already in the world. If death was absent in a pre-fall world there would be no need for the tree of life. Additionally, if I recall correctly both Adam and Eve lived for something like 900 years after they left Eden, so to be told they surely wouldn't die due to eating the fruit appears to be a fairly accurate statement as it appears that eating the fruit did nothing to kill them, rather gods over reaction and tossing them out of the garden did. I mean they could of always eaten from the tree of life. Your further questions that were spurred by my bleach analogy actually highlight the issue with the situation god put Adam and Eve into. You ask what would happen if someone introduced it and posit that they would not be equipped to resist. However, you miss out a critical detail, god intentionally deprived from Adam and Eve the ability to resist. He deprived them the knowledge of knowing what is good and evil, to act as moral agents. They did not get the knowledge of that they did wrong till after they had tasted of the fruit. We already have this issue with our AI and machine learning algorithms, they have no concept of good and evil and thus do many wrongs in the world. But do we punish them? No, because they are incapable of understanding that what they did is wrong, instead we punish the creator of them. So in this case, god should punish himself for not being a good steward of his creations. There is a huge difference between Adam and Eve and children. Children are capable of understanding good and evil, right from wrong, Adam and Eve were not able to do so until they ate of the fruit. The better analogy would be a dog or a current generation AI, as they mostly lack the ability to act as a moral agent. I also do not see Adam and Eve making a choice. When god created the universe he already knew everything which would transpire, he already knew Adam and Eve would eat of the apple and in fact could of created a universe in which they did not. He made the choice for them by creating a universe in which he knowingly and purposefully made circumstances which cause them to eat of the fruit. If I create a series of circumstances which over-ride your reason and railroad you into a choice, did you really make a choice or just the illusion of choice? If I then blame you for making a choice, one I already knew you would make and one which I schemed to put you in the very situation where you were forced to make it, does not that make me a gaslighter and the immoral one in the story? I dunno, if I was in the same circumstances as Adam and Eve I bet I would do the same thing, I suspect you would as well. I am willing to bet you claim otherwise because you are coming at this as a person who has the ability to act a moral agent and a plethora of experience which they did not have. Strip all that away and I am willing to bet you would make completely different sets of decisions. There is more I could remark on your post, but mine has already gotten overly long so I am just going to cut it short here.

[@yaboy20071]

I am not aware of one person who would disagree that murdering men and women, rape, cannibalism and sacrificing a baby is not immoral or wrong. However, when God does something about it, He's cruel and a monster. On the other hand, when the world's justice system suggests the death penalty, they agree with the judgment. God brings justice and people disagree, while a human judge executes an innocent person or even a guilty person and no one bats an eye. Interesting. Consider this, someone commits violence against your loved one. Do you respond "I want justice. I hope they get the bad they deserve"? If so, then who are you to demand justice and say what someone deserves? If you respond, "I forgive them and hope they change" (or something similar) then you're demonstrating God's forgiveness. Point: You cant criticize God for His judgement for what you perceive as evil without acknowledging God's mercy.

[@lookatmepleasesir]

"I am not aware of one person who would disagree that murdering men and women, rape, cannibalism and sacrificing a baby is not immoral or wrong. However, when God does something about it, He's cruel and a monster. " the old testament god either caused or commanded all of these things

[@dawnemile4974]

Nonssnse.

[@eccolibri]

So, if these people kill their children, it's bad. Nobody can argue with that. The problem we have is a god supposedly telling people to kill children because their parents might kill them. No amount of obfuscation can make that seem right or just.

[@kemal3599]

The US is one of about 12 countries to retain the archaic and barbaric practice of putting people to death. So clearly most people, even most Christians, do not believe putting someone to death by law is moral. So your entire first paragraph is a faulty argument.

[@josefernandez-leon4024]

We are not to ignore the Serpent seed line, and in every occasion when God needed to deal with this line with extinction/destruction, it was because of their seed line. Genesis is critical, especially ch 6.

[@josefernandez-leon4024]

EH, you hit a bull’s eye! (Even if you wrote this comment a month ago!).

[@fredgillespie5855]

Jose Fernandez-Leon - the Serpent seed line is fiction.

[@josefernandez-leon4024]

@@fredgillespie5855 It is for those who do not seriously study the Scriptures, but limit their knowledge to that which other men say.

[@dominiqueharry7436]

Its sicking that people are justifiying slaughter innocent people,what the hell! This is Genocide!!!!!!!

[@dominiqueharry7436]

This man is also incorrect. The only cannanites who were doing child sacrifice according to historical evidence were the people of Cartherage and ISREALITES to YHWH.

[@justincredible.]

Here's a great pro-life one for ya; Hosea 13:16 "They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.

[@drdisrespect5318]

God is the only one who have the right to take life just as much as He gives life according to His ultimate plan.

[@captainkrajick]

Isn't that the result of the Israelites continuing to rebel and not follow God? That they will be conquered and that's how their conquerors will treat them? wat

[@maegardnermills4292]

@@drdisrespect5318 Which God? Their are many gods.

[@drdisrespect5318]

@@maegardnermills4292there is only one God. Jesus Christ

[@themaneatingrabbit]

@@drdisrespect5318 I thought Jesus was the son of God

[@miriamcapojuu4850]

Do we believe in a merciful God and at the same time,a bloody God? This whole thing is just. 😳

[@KolbyKHart]

Miriam good point! Who do you believe God is?

[@miriamcapojuu4850]

@@KolbyKHart To be honest to you, neither and it's sad to say it, because at some point in my life I was a believer.🤷

[@KolbyKHart]

@@miriamcapojuu4850 hey totally get that! Nothing to be ashamed of! When I was in the darkest part of my life, these were the type of questions I was struggling with. So I can for sure relate. Any chance you’ve read the book of Job?

[@miriamcapojuu4850]

@@KolbyKHart Glad you understand.👍 Yes, I read the book of Job and all the Bible books, except Revelation.

[@miriamcapojuu4850]

@@Peekaboo-Kitty Twisted

[@blakebarner]

God doesn't do something because it's good; it's good because God does it. He is Sovereign.

[@Charlie94781]

Appeal to authority fallacy: God declares that he is good and everyone must accept without question… or else they’ll mysteriously vanish and wind up floating in a lake while full of bullet holes

[@chvazquez]

An excellent book addressing this question (and others) is Is God a Moral Monster?, by Paul Copan. Blessings from México 🇲🇽😊

[@vdgitaliano]

The scripture very clearly defines the reason, there’s no need to question or to wonder. The Bible says that the Canaanites had attacked the Israelites hundreds of years earlier, with great weapons of war and destruction and the Israelites were simple farmers having nothing but pitchforks and simple shovels. In order to fully understand this you have to go back to the scripture and find the reasons. The Bible says that the Lord forgives all of our sins, the most scarlet of them and he makes them as if they never existed and he remembers them no more. With the Canaanites he clearly says that he remembered what they had done to his people. That’s a sign that not only have they not repented, but it was also in their hearts to continue to do it again because it says he remembered which is contrary to what he does when we have repented and asked for forgiveness and turned away from our evil ways. When we continue to grasp on to our evil or our sinful minds and hearts, he remembers our sins, it’s only when we turn away from our old ways that he also turns away from the memory of what we’ve done or will do. The term waiting for their sins to become a full or to fulfillment means that he was waiting for every last hope of repentance to be gone and for the desire of their sin to be the only thing that was in their hearts before he acted. He wasn’t waiting for them to become the most evil that they could, he was waiting for every last shred of hope that they would repent to be gone before he sought justice upon them. Believe it or not people, he was waiting for the Canaanites to repent, that was his hope and he wasn’t going to besiege them until every last shred of evidence that they would was gone. Only at that moment did he act and he acted by justifying it through saying he had waited hundreds of years. The Canaanites would have once again infiltrated Israel and brought destruction and evil upon their nation and also into their nation. It should also be noted that the Bible says that the sins of the father are visited upon the children up to the fourth generation. The Lord in his wisdom knew that the children of Canaan would not be free from the many and great curses that were about to come upon them, they would never be able to escape them and that death was a better option for them than to live in the life that was being delivered to them by their fathers and that the afterlife that would be delivered through divine justice upon them for having done so. most people only see that the Most High murdered children, what they don’t acknowledge is that he saved them spiritually in the long run, he kept them from the sins of their fathers and the curses that would’ve fallen on them causing them to live lives that would’ve made them stand at the final judgment and be sent to hell. He took those children while they were still his just as he promises, saving every last one of them, even the ones that were in the wombs of the women. The Lord commands us to understand that his ways are higher than our ways, as far as the sun is from the earth are his ways higher than ours and he doesn’t need to justify himself, we need to trust him in all things and know that he works toward good and righteousness alone. If you ask him, in some strange way he will always reveal the truth to you. It may not be what you want to hear, but he’s not a liar, ever!

[@LoudaroundLincoln]

No he isn't. Cos he don't exist. And if he did all he'd get from me is laughter. Nowt but a sick, demented creature.

[@Horaciojonesjr]

What did the infants do or not do to have their murder to be defined as “just”???????????

[@neilsiebenthal9254]

God said so..

[@claudiasolomon1123]

Don't act like you don't know what those babies did.. .

[@chuckhough]

Who deserves justice? Who is the arbiter? You or God? And are you certain justice hasnt been served. What if their young death on earth was done justice with a 100 fold peace, happiness, and pleasure in heaven?

[@jasonchelette8175]

Why couldn't God have simply raptured the children to heaven? They didn't have to be killed!?

[@bizmanpatrick214]

Life is not simple. Perhaps these babies would have grown up to do the same practices of human sacrifice. If God is In charge, there was a reason

[@AshwinThomasM]

'The judgments of the Lord are True & righteous altogether.'- Lincoln

[@thedisgruntledharpist6699]

Only religion could convince people that murdering innocent little babies is righteous.. What is going on this crazy crazy world?!

[@AshwinThomasM]

@@thedisgruntledharpist6699 Perhaps..For Like the saying goes 'we know what we are, but know not what we may be.' Only many more "Hitlers" rising would be convincing enough fondly wishing 'better that they were never born.'

[@jonpool9030]

@@thedisgruntledharpist6699 only religion, really? How many innocent babies have been slaughtered in the womb since 1973?

[@thedisgruntledharpist6699]

@@jonpool9030 It depends when the pregnancy was aborted. Before a certain time, it's simply not a child. No doctors murder breastfeeding babies like your bible heroes.

[@jonpool9030]

@@thedisgruntledharpist6699 no it doesn't. Science have answered the question of when life begins. It's a baby at conception

[@KCAugustine]

Why didn't God send a destroying angel instead of having people commit the atrocity on others? Would a loving father murder his children? Would a loving father ask his favorite children to murder his wayward children? No & no. It's a problem with these OT stories. More likely these acts were attributed to God in the retelling of the events. Easy way to get rid of your guilt, either 'God told me to,' or, 'the Devil made me do it.' For me one of the markers that none of these stories can be taken literally verbatim, but always with a grain of skeptical salt.

[@5065ca]

your a man , you'd never understand the mind of God

[@williamtotherow3367]

KC, you and I agree, such an evil act to justify stealing others land, and use religion as done so many times to do evil acts all over the world by all religions. Jews are not the chosen people, just chosen by the god they made up.

[@KCAugustine]

@@5065ca And as you are also a man (or woman), neither will you understand the mind of God. At least we both know that we do not know. What a lovely starting place.

[@KCAugustine]

@@evanlee6644 I never said that religion is the root of all evil, just implied one should be careful blaming one's murderous actions on God. That's how the stereotype you are objecting to gets started.

[@KCAugustine]

@@williamtotherow3367 There's definitely too much of that justification. Especially on honor killings and such. I think if someone is going to believe in God or religion, you must assume that God created us in love. All of us. Unless we understand God as loving all, then we can be sucked into factionalism, religious fanaticism and even violence. If God asks us to murder, and Satan does too, how do you tell them apart? If someone today murdered their neighbor, his wife, kids and burned down their house, would anyone accept that justification? Why should it have been accepted in OT times? To me it seems like a huge failure of discernment in the nature of God and what the desires of an all good entity would have to be.

[@jwhite3830]

This guy makes no sense. Never really said shit. Any reasonable person would way this was a horrible person that did this, really a monster.

[@orangemanbad]

It was for one reason only. God knew from the beginning of time he would incarnate through the Virgin Mary. Thus he had to protect the bloodline and keep the seed to make Mary in tact. This is why Mary is so revered. When the Angel Gabriel comes to her and says “Hail, full of grace.” She already had gods grace in order to complete this mission.

[@ivanmosquera3845]

The answer is not satisfactory. God killed thousands upon thousands, among them innocent children. What kind of loving god is him? Don’t forget that virgins were spared for the used of the soldiers and kings. What a loving God!

[@CadeD679]

Just a few of the reasons I reject the Bible! And the "god" depicted in it. When the "goodie" does worse things than the "baddie," it is either satire or a very poorly thought out story.

[@googla12]

@@CadeD679 What moral standard do you judge what is good and bad?

[@ivanmosquera3845]

@@googla12 Indigenous groups like the Yanamamo and Kayapo have lived in the Amazon jungle for thousands of years. Away from civilization or Christianity to set moral standards for them. These groups have thrived by setting their own moral standards and rules based mainly on the tribes' survival and benefits to the group. The jungle and the needs of the many have defined their morals. No Christian morals are essential.

[@arnulfoescamilla8577]

@@ivanmosquera3845 Didn't they also sacrifice to their gods?

[@trafficjon400]

Man said is elite and will control you any way. i going boon docking because this is coming faster than one thinks. the souless are planing a new Armageddon its here just not called to order quite yet. being beyong the Grid are the wise.

[@josephhoggang7139]

Its only God who can answer that question, if the reason is not stated in the bible.

[@elohiymkingdom9453]

Lol typical cop-out. Just use your brain.

[@dawndanner6672]

U don’t how much this helped me. I would get so angry about this and even told my husband I didn’t think I could follow a God like this. I looked this up on google and I found 1 article about this 1 and he pissed me off even more. So I came over to KZbin and found u so thank u so much!!

[@radijaye7435]

Now u feel ok to see people killing children. How did you convince yoir self with that wow . If god did it him self we can say ok but it's human beings killing children that's hard even to imagine. And not only human god according to u didn't even forget the animals

[@cputeq007]

I'm glad this video helped you -- and I would stress the *most important part* of this video is the very beginning, where he says we must uphold that God is always just and righteous. If that is the case, then we have to be extremely careful when examining hard texts (like the Canaanite extermination) lest we make a rash decision that something is unjust - which sets ourselves above God and His knowledge and judgement (see the end of Job, where God puts a smackdown on Job that is unrivaled in the Bible, because Job presumed to know what was going on). Additionally, I think it *really helps* to realize that not only don't we know even a fraction of what God knows, but we often have a different perspective -- humans keep to the immediate/temporal perspective vs God's eternal perspective. What that means -- Say for instance we see in the news a young child horribly abused then killed by their parents. We look and say "Why God, why did you allow this? This is unjust!" Meanwhile, God in His mercy may have actually brought that child out of a horrible situation that, had the child /lived/, would have caused that child to turn away from the very God that wants to save them! Instead they are in eternal bliss with God, vs living in a horrible state on earth. Now let's transport this *possibility* (I can't be sure of all of this, but it's possible) to the Canaanite externmination. We know the Canaanites were idolaters and worshipping using child sacrifices -- so we might consider "okay, it's just that the men be exterminated." However, women were most likely also taking part in this worship, as they also felt it honorable that they bore the very child they were going to sacrifice. Complicit in the crimes -- so maybe it's the women that get exterminated as well. But what about the children? Why them? Here are a couple of possible alternative scenarios -- 1) The children are taken as slaves for the Israelites vs being killed -- and grow up (some at least) with a knowledge of what the Israelites had done to their families. They grow up resenting and hating Israel and vow to never serve their God, therefore damning themselves. 2) They're taken as slaves but follow Israel -- right into condemnation because Israel ended up being horrible idolaters themselves and subject to horrible punishments. Therefore, they end up being caught up in the same condemnation as the Israelites earned. Now let's take what really happened -- God made a righteous judgement and had the Israelites wipe out most of the Canaanites, even children. However, God, in His mercy, has rescued these same children by doing so! There are several times in the Bible when the death of a young child is equated to being with God (David, when his child died, felt better and said he would be where the child is one day)...and I believe John (don't quote me on this) says it would have been good to be stillborn and with God than not (I should really look up this text). This doctrine is called the "age of accountability" but more aptly should be called the "condition of accountability" (since the age at which one can knowingly reject God is different). Not everyone subscribes to this doctrine, but what it essentially says is that people who are unable to accept or reject God (typically young children) are granted grace and are brought into heaven. This would explain where the souls of aborted children would go, for instance. We can't 100% assume this is in fact the case every time...only God knows it all. But there is biblical support for young children being in the presence of God. If we firstly rest on the justice of God, and Him knowing way, way more than we do -- we can at least read the Canaanite extermination with humbleness. If we then examine the possibility of a condition of accountability, we see it's possible that God, in His gracious mercy, actually *saved* those Canaanite children.

[@dawndanner6672]

@@cputeq007 thank u so much! Maybe in the future I could ask u some other things but at the same time I don’t want to take up your time but I am so glad u answered back to me. 🩷

[@radijaye7435]

@@cputeq007 that's sad to think god will order the killing of children by human and even the animals. If god want to kill all the people he can do it directly no need to order himan being to do such a horrible thing

[@starfox5352]

An omnipotent god can acheive its goals without slaughter. Unless slaughter is the goal

[@cheryli2317]

I love what Truth Teller just said. People have a lot to say about someOne thry do not know. They seem to know better than God does.

[@ob2249]

cheryl ingram muslims, jews, hindus, bhuddists, catholic,s protestants, presbytarians, methodists, unitarians, mormons, jehovahs witnesses. "they all seem to know better than god does " which gang are you in ?

[@johnsteigalman9361]

THE WOMAN AND CHILDREN WERE NOT HUMAN... THEY WERE NEPHILEM... HALF FALLEN ANGEL HALF HUMAN..

[@charlesarmani6897]

So why can’t fallen angels mate with humans today?

[@johnsteigalman9361]

@@charlesarmani6897 it's not that they can't it's because of the punishment was so severe none of them would ever do it again...

[@charlesarmani6897]

john Steigalman How did you arrive to this conclusion?

[@johnsteigalman9361]

@@charlesarmani6897 from researching the scriptures and researching extra biblical text such as the 1st book of ENOCH...

[@nicholaspierrecampo2534]

The created is not greater than it's creator,your opinion has notn to do with God but your salvation.

[@DaInvisibleNinja]

You're the kind of guy who would have marched the jews to their deaths.

[@dianheffernan3436]

Wow and my family got set up with Watergate when after all it is this

[@lifeisabadjoke5750]

Sheep

[@davidweigel2238]

@@michaelfourie345 Seek Christ, time is short. Don’t harden your heart.

[@davidweigel2238]

@@michaelfourie345 Michael, my obligation as a Christian to you is now complete. I told you and earnestly, now it is all on you.

[@ReasonQuest]

Nine minutes and seventeen seconds of excuse-making for the most immoral character in the Bible: God. One has to wonder if this "merciful warning" might have been communicated better if actual mercy had been applied, and not the WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER of people (who-if you believe the whole Bible-experienced that merciless death as JUST THE BEGINNING of their eternal, never-ending TORTURE).

[@MasterSpade]

The Real answer to that question is this -- The people that invented "god" had very different morals than we do now, so when they Invented "god", they gave that god THEIR Morals. They could not have known that their invention would set mankind back more than ANYTHING in Human History. It is that simple.

[@ob2249]

master spade well said.

[@stevenshumate3430]

So what you're saying is, what it boils down to is, if god tells you to ki!! kids it isn't wrong?!

[@sierragoin863]

It's pretty sadistic. He killed almost all life himself with a flood and not through someone else.

[@stevenshumate3430]

@@sierragoin863 and after that didn't work out he sent his holy representatives to kill babies by slamming them to pieces and ripping open pregnant women. Hoses 13:16 "Our god is a awesome god" indeed!

[@jailahbryel305]

Jesus loves you and died so you can have eternal life. Repent and turn to Him because He is coming soon! He loves you!

[@WildPhotoShooter]

Jesus is not coming, look at Mathhew 24-34 "Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled" . But it was the generation of the time that Jesus was talking to, NOT us 2000 years later . You have made the mistake of taking the place of the reader when it should be the listener. .......but don't forget EVERY generation has read it for 2000 years and Jesus has not shown up yet.

[@livewireOrourke]

@@WildPhotoShooter Read it again. He's talking about the generation who witnesses those events, they will also witness the second coming.

[@WildPhotoShooter]

@@livewireOrourke No he wasn't ! That is only an interpretation . Read the actual words ......the Bible was never intended to be changed by mere humans . There has not been a second coming for 2000 years , even this generation is saying Jesus is "comming soon" . When will you realise you are all living a lie , Jesus will never come back .

[@pedalman130]

@@livewireOrourke Mathew 24-34 Jesus was talking to the people listening to him ....'THIS generation will not die out" ..... but they all did die out .......and Jesus didn't come back !!!! The man Jesus was just another deluded crazy religious guy trying to convince people that he was the messiah.

[@livewireOrourke]

@@pedalman130 Once again, he's talking about *future* events, the people witnessing the Tribulation. ( "“Immediately after the tribulation *of those days* the sun will be darkened..." ) It's not difficult. Do some Research, read the Bible. So, nothing's changed: you will still have to stand before Jesus one day.

[@general8109]

The late Herbert Armstrong and the present Churches of God give the best teaching on people who have died without hearing of Jesus and those who God destroyed...there is going to come a time when ALL will be given a chance to hear who Christ is.

[@FrankNStein-pf9rr]

100% CORRECT!! AND that IS NOT just generally speaking, General. :-)

[@tfoserauqsevoli]

there is so much beauty in the bible if you just look closely, or even if you listen to what these people have interpreted

[@radijaye7435]

There is always some fans even for killing children that's sad really sad

[@alexkodwiw2640]

The supreme master of the universe does not need to appease any powers by sacrifice or appeasement to achieve ANY OBJECTIVE same way the landlord of a house does not need the sacrifice his son before writing off your rent. When you understand the larger context of religion , it becomes clear what purpose all thes scripture serve. They are all to manipulate the masses into submission which was very necessary back then for leaders to raise armies to fight battles. By making the masses believe that God himself gave his only son away, no one would dare discourage their son to join the army to fight and to die if necessary. The same things about Abraham nearly killing his son. Most people dont have a clue what religion is about and just follow blindly. Consider this. Religion and the church was everything in society back in the days of antiquity so the one who controlled the church controlled everything in society. The British had fallen under catholic rule and as a result were controlled by romans/ Italians. their The Brits simply abolished Catholicism, massacred the catholic followers, outlawed Catholicism and revised the bible, supposedly the word of God, by reducing it from 72 books to 66. (the catholic bible still has 6 more books than your kjv). Next, they established thier own ANGLICAN CHURCH and made thier monarch the head. And pesto! Their monarch gains the full levers of control. The Italians/Romans suddenly can no longer tell them what to do and how to do it. Seen? As for the The ordinary folks like you and me, we dont have a clue of the larger purpose of religion so we keep fighting, protestants vs Catholics and northern Ireland becomes the theater for some horrific battles for centuries with both sides thinking they are fighting for one same God who is open to the idea of child killing. Which means no one will dare pull out thier sons from a senseless war since God himself would kill his only son to get a result. With religion you can control larger humanity without geographic restrictions. Today via religion, the Arabs control over 2 billion worldwide and all of whom have to learn their language, pray to God in their language and often adopt Arabic names over indigenous names all of which would be impossible without the power of religion. Consider Italy too, just a small country, but through the religion of Catholicism they control so much BEYOND BORDERS over 3 billion followers worldwide. The story of the Mormons, JW, SDAs are all modern day proof that religion was created by man to great effect. Consider lately Charles Russel, Joseph Smith. Mary Baker Eddy have all created their religion, borrowing from earlier religions to great effect and are now followed by millions ardent supporters today. Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, in just a matter of 190 years has gained so much ardent following across all countries, by claiming God appeared to him. Recently a white chap who dresses like Jesus, jetted off to Kenya, in East African. And presto! He is followed around as though he was divine. People are so easily convinced when it comes to religion. Go to Nigeria, every kilometer you find a new church owned by individuals reaping offerings. Covid 19 has exposed religion in a big way. Now churches that supposedly conduct healing services now have to check your temperature to be sure you are not sick before allowing you in for healing service? While religion may be the most divisive and manipulative thing on earth, it still remains the most effective tool for mass control. In spite of the many wars it has brought humanity its amazing the millions of people who just cannot realize religion is just a matter of mass control and has nothing to do with The True God. But of course life seems too daunting for many to not consider a partial God who is on "thier side" and fighting against others. Only the most conflicted people will take the bible serious as a moral standard. What a shame decent people even discuss such a book. This bible God actually kills more people in the conflicted bible than satan who is supposed to be the bad entity. Think to think beyond ancient folklore

[@socmedmaxxing]

The god of Old Testament is actually Yaldabaoth = Yahweh, the god of chaos.

[@mauricegibney8449]

If death was the final straw and no life after death it would be wrong to kill. But if God is real then death is bringing children home and wicked parents to judgement ending another generation of moral depravity! We all have a date to face our Saviour. ❤

[@whyismyricewet1986]

So killing kids is okay if they go to heaven anyways?

[@user-dj2pq8xp6k]

Actually this is not God but these small God's of men. If you understand it well it was cananites that allowed those things.

[@KravMagoo]

Why is it "wrong" for God to kill??? He made everything and everyone, and it is His prerogative to do whatever He wants, and He can do so with no limitation of any sort. He is not bound by any law that He created and gave to men, just like if I tell my children not to go out into the street, I am not thereby prohibited from crossing the street to check the mailbox. The rule was for my kids, not me. God creating life does not in any way oblige Him to that life. You might not like it, but you can't do anything to change that fact.

[@masonridgewell8063]

​@@whyismyricewet1986 Are you God? From God it is not wrong, for mankind yes. If God would kill me knowing he let me enter His kingdom I'd sign up this very minute.

[@Worship_Universe]

you are sickening. No WAY you have the Holy Spirit with that kind of sadistic, sociopathic outlook

[@oldhippygal504]

Why would God give 10 commandments, including “though shalt not kill”, then tell these people to kill everyone, when He could have done it Himself? Makes no sense

[@flash-wg4bt]

Why do humans say "killing is wrong" yet have killed hundreds of millions in wars last century alone & slaughter millions of unborn babies every year!? Humanity must be evil.

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

@@flash-wg4bt That's a terrible analogy. Humans are imperfect beings so it makes sense why we would be prone to making mistakes and doing bad things. God is supposedly perfectly moral and just, so it makes zero sense why he would order his "chosen people" to commit genocide, rape, and theft.

[@flash-wg4bt]

​@@BlGGESTBROTHER Stop asking "why & how" to the Creator of the why & how. U wouldn't tell the worlds highest authority in surgeory "why & how" when it comes to performing surgery. Or question the highest authority in rocket science about rockets....or the highest authority in medicine about cures etc etc..... Who are YOU to question the Creator of the entire universe & everything it contains (& all the worlds we cannot see) about anything regarding anything, when u yourself cannot even create a single fly's wing let alone a living fly!? U didn't even exist a 100yrs ago & won't exist in another 100yrs time. Know your limits.

[@elohiymkingdom9453]

I agree with you. Like God is contradicting himself

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

@@flash-wg4bt The world's highest authority on surgery would at least have some CREDENTIALS and proof that he exists. You are the king of non sequiturs. You can't even prove your God exists; let alone prove that he's beyond reproach. What a convenient way to shut down debate and protect your own weak beliefs though.

[@orangeandslinky]

Best answer I've heard yet.

[@TheRgordon16]

No problem for me. God created life. There would be nothing if He did not create it. Therefore if God created life, it is His right to eliminate life at His discretion. If He says you are unworthy of the life HE GAVE, then He has the right to remove it from you. Who are we to question the Author of life? We sound as if we created ourselves and God comes along and steals life from us; how ridiculous. “Let God be true and every man a liar”

[@shawnjones2454]

Very well put, Asa

[@nevertrumper3692]

Can you PROVE god creates life?

[@johnm.6975]

Never Trumper can you PROVE life arose naturally from rocks

[@1988TheHitman]

Hats off to answering a seriously big question, answered with graciousness and fear. God Bless and thank you for posting, it helps those of us involved in street evangelism 🙂

[@keisi1574]

HeWhoHasTheSon Would you kill children of God commanded you to? Or would you disobey God?

[@Carpaintry_of_God]

+THE Funky NinjaMaster of Peace I would obey

[@Carpaintry_of_God]

+THE Funky NinjaMaster of Peace That happened to Abraham. He was told by God to sacrifice his son. As Abraham was about to do it, God stopped him.

[@Carpaintry_of_God]

+THE Funky NinjaMaster of Peace it's part of trusting in the Lord.

[@Phylum123456]

@@Carpaintry_of_God You are a disgusting human being. Much like Hitchens, if some voice in my head told me to kill my children I would say "Fuck you". What kind of ALL loving God would even consider asking for such a sacrifice? In fact when the Israelite's broke free from other religions, child sacrifice was one of the main reasons... The bible makes NO sense and yet you follow it blindly.

[@robhuhges]

To assume that God is just is to assume more than we can know about him...the argument cuts both ways.

[@ryke1414]

If you hated the answer, you were a better Christian before you were a Christian.

[@novakandfaith123]

Simply because He's God. Tough shit. I've never had a problem with it since I was a kid. If He decides to kill me He will kill me too!

[@GardG4m3r]

Bruh then why you say muslims are violent although Allah didn't say we must kill the children and women while in Bible did

[@Worship_Universe]

this isnt the relationship and attitude God intended for us. You know something not right with all this.

[@entertherealmofchaos]

Sorry I nodded off for a bit. Did he justify genocide because someone heard a voice?

[@davidweigel2238]

Yes He did; they were His creation and they were evil. So He destroyed them!

[@entertherealmofchaos]

@@davidweigel2238 Was his creation a bit crap then? A bit like " Made in China ".

[@davidweigel2238]

@@entertherealmofchaos God gives us free will, we can choose to believe in Him or not. You have your lifetime to accept that gift, and the path is in everyone’s heart if they search, God’s promise, totally your call. If you don’t want it He will grant you the eternal separation from Him, but not in a place you may like. A life with Him who saved me, or with Satan who hates you and wants to torment you for eternity, your call.

[@sids5002]

@@davidweigel2238 What a douche, playing with lives like that! This god sounds pure evil

[@davidweigel2238]

@@sids5002 where were you when God laid the foundations of the earth, or when He put the oceans in there place? Where were you when He created the universe? No one can advise God! If man would not have sinned against God none of the destruction would have occurred. It is man’s fault, not God’s.

[@apelibrian3968]

In my experience, whoever is managing this planet today is either not all powerful or lacks unconditional love...and one reason i don't take religious guys seriously is how they negotiate human lives with God's name.

[@ajacobs100]

God's love is not unconditional - and never was. God abhors the wicked. 2600 year ago the Bible prophesied the entire timeline of Israel - including their return to their homeland right up to this day. Not many things are left to still come to pass. At this point the bible reads like an almanac. My friend, from all of that I can tell you this - there is a thing called a "Tribulation period" that will last for 7 years. During that time God will remove his Spirit from the Earth. The earth will be ruled by Satan himself. If you think it is bad now or that God's not doing a very good job, just wait till that happens. Those living through the tribulation will fully understand what evil means. There is not much time until then. You don't need to believe it. When you stand in the tribulation it will not matter if you believe it or not. Throughout all the evil God has always provided a way of escape - it is up to you to either wonder about the evil around you, or grab the opportunity to escape it. In order to please God you don't need to bow to any man, pay anyone anything, or belong to anything whatsoever. You literally just have to believe and obey His Word, and it is only through obedience that he can lead you to safety in this fallen world. Outside of that there is no salvation. ps: If you never had a cold and miserable day, how can you ever fully appreciate a bright sunny day.

[@apelibrian3968]

@@ajacobs100 I agree to an extend, this world was built for responsibilities. while achieving them, we are bound to mess up and learn better means over and over again. whatever monster comes out of this is only proving to be human. Any man who is raised under the circumstances of the so called 'evil persons' is vulnerable to act the same. Responsibilities create a fine line between a sinner and a good man, poverty and wealth e.t.c. even evil desires and greed breeds responsibilities. I honestly see no point of a deity making things much worse in a world full of responsibilities with majority in poverty just so people take his worshiping more seriously...Sounds like a man's plan to me. introducing a more ruthless leader to make people understand the level of mercy that was in place, such as in what you call the 'tribulation' is something a lot of governments have achieved. Using God's name to justify such means is not something i find worth believing in because as long as it will be humans making this happen, we humans are responsible for protecting ourselves from them.

[@PONTIANGOD]

Wizard Of Oz

[@ajacobs100]

@Alex Higgings i assumed that was implied since i was talking about the Bible

[@ajacobs100]

@Mike Zielinski i think you are presuming way too much in what i said. But you probably want your say so I'll let you have it.

[@justincredible.]

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death."

[@b.goodfellow465]

I can remember once hearing a minister tell someone that God never sends anyone to hell, we put our selves into hell, and to be honest I was horrified by the answer, until I really studied the scriptures seriously. I started to read the Bible everyday with commentaries and books, and I really started to learn what God’s Spirit revealed to me! Praise God!

[@b.goodfellow465]

spoo man Well, first and foremost, it depends on what someone believes hell is really like! If I was a Jehovah’s Witness, I would be answering that in Revelation there’s a scripture which talks about a second death, and they say that the second death means total oblivion, so there’s no consciousness and no life at all. When they die the first death, they are in a suspended state of unconsciousness until judgement day. But, some people think that it just means an eternity of separation from God, which in itself is an awful prospect. For many years I really was nothing more than a Sunday Christian, I picked up my Bible went to church and I got home put my Bible back on the shelf until the following Sunday. It was during this period that I was absolutely horrified by the statement that unbelievers put themselves into hell. I can also remember learning at one church that there’s many different levels in hell and the devil, together with the rest of the fallen angels, have already been allocated the deepest pit in hell. So, it’s fair to assume that each level becomes slightly less horrifying. The most important thing is to remember that God is good, He was good at the very beginnings of time and will remain so for the rest of eternity, but we also must remember that He is a Just God and if we humans can look at Hitler and wholeheartedly agree that Hitler should be in hell for eternity, how can we honestly say that God is evil when in all fairness God clearly gives us forewarning throughout the Bible that this is potentially what could happen to anyone who dies unrepentant. But, I am sure you will know the scripture of St. John 3 v 16 which says that God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son, so that anyone who believes in Him shall not perish but will have eternal life. So, the person of Jesus Christ, who was both fully God and fully man, was crucified to pay our debt, He took our punishment. There’s an excellent video on KZbin by a minister called Paul Washer and it’s quite a short video and he explains this very eloquently. Just, one final point, I know for sure that God doesn’t want anyone to go to hell, as He says 2 Peter 3 v 9 that He desires all men to repent, but as I have said He is a Just God. But, in Matthew 4 you will read about the temptation of Christ, in verse 8 it says that Satan took Christ Jesus to the top of an exceedingly high mountain, and in a moment of time he shows Him (Jesus) all the cities of the world and their glory, then Satan tells Christ that he will give all this to Him, so long as Christ bows down to worship the him. But, he couldn’t have made this offer if he wasn’t actually the god of this world, so temporarily, very temporarily God has allowed this, we don’t know why, but we must trust God, He knows what He’s doing. So, in conclusion, God wants all men to repent and become a believer, so we must trust God that people who lived without any knowledge of God, the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, God will have an abundance of Love for them as this is His nature and He will deal with them Justly. As He will for babies and children who die before they hear the Gospel message, people who have mental illness! My parents were unbelievers, but, I am sure God will know their heart condition! But, who knows, maybe God comes to people in their final moments of life and talks to them. There’s a million possibilities, but at the end of the day you have to know that God IS Good! So, in short I am sure that the people who actually end up in Hell forever, will deserve it. There’s so many very beautiful scriptures one I have only just found Isaiah 30 it’s worth reading the chapter from verse 1 and this speaks to me of mans unreliability, it talks about Israel not obeying God. However Gods love and temperament come through and in v 18 we learn about the mercy of God being prepared to wait, and wait until we turn to Him and I am oh so thankful for His patience with me. 1 Kings 19 onwards. And the gospel of John chapter 14 really turned my life around when I was in a bad place! Well, I hope you have made it to the end, I said more than I intended so thanks for reading it! God bless you

[@rickpettey8822]

Bedbug: I am sorry but you are wrong. God alone sends one to hell. (Matt. 10:28).

[@Ozzyman200]

That's a bit like a Mafia boss saying they don't torch people's businesses, they do it to themselves by not paying protection money. That's just an excuse.

[@b.goodfellow465]

Andrew Fairfax Well, Mr. Fairfax, I would say that if having faith in the God of the Bible makes me a gullible person, then I have never been so delighted to be gullible!!! So, this is not at all the insult you clearly intended it to be, it has now become my greatest compliment. God bless you, my friend.

[@mysticwine]

God loves you. Satan is in a rage because he failed to bully you into atheist suffering and misery.

[@ariellalima7229]

So god ended child sacrifice by... sacrificing everybody!

[@ilikecheeseburger42]

sacrifice!!!! sacrifice!!!!! Sack of rice!!!!

[@Vlugazoide]

Not really, it's more like a "I'll take those kids into my sovereign will, instead of leaving them to pay the horrible price of being part of this horrible nation"

[@ilikecheeseburger42]

no, it's more like ending child sacrifice by sacrificing everybody.

[@tyman7156]

if we wouldve done right to begin with he wouldnt have had to do that so yeah

[@tyman7156]

god gave the amaloktes 400 years to repent of evil and he judged them

[@subbu2185]

To please believers he does anything, what a love towards believers

[@SurferKroky]

He literally created us , gave us this incredibly beautiful earth and all the animals and food for us to enjoy and all he ever asked was for us to love him and do as he asks. Praise the Lord

[@subbu2185]

@@SurferKroky animals as food for you, so you can cull them and enjoy their pain before having then for supper, in expectation of love from you. Yep, exactly like what I told, anything for a bilee.

[@SurferKroky]

@@subbu2185 I am vegetarian

[@subbu2185]

@@SurferKroky may be , he even created animals to till lands instead of looking after their family, while taking your beating from hunter, give milk to u instead of their kids, and take harmones steroids to give u more milk, what a give, for just belief

[@JonathanGrandt]

The Lord is wise. The Lord is good. He does not take pleasure in the destruction of the wicked.

[@aguywithnoprofile6882]

but why did he still do it if he is a wise and good God?

[@Iminyourare12]

@@aguywithnoprofile6882 because he punishes evil doers

[@Chu_San]

@@Iminyourare12​why doesn’t he start the new heaven with the people he knew would choose him, So god doesn’t have to create people that would not choose him? If he didn’t create those people, they would never experience hell for all eternity

[@Chu_San]

Why did God kill innocent children/babies through the flood? And he also ordered his people (Israel) to get rid of all 7 different nations because they were wicked, but killing children’s and babies because of their parent’s sins, really.

[@Iminyourare12]

@@Chu_San he could make a universes where we all follow him but its never achievable. God created us with free will to be free creatures and not robots following what he says, but with free will we can sin, if he forces us to love him that is not love because love has to be freely given. God loves us that's why he gave us the freedom to choose from good and evil.

[@peterhudson5748]

How many innocent lives did got abort in the “ great flood”?

[@Kronoblade99]

I disagree. Since when did the Bible say they were innocent? The whole earth was filled with iniquity. God would’ve spared Sodom and Gomorrah if there were only 10 righteous people. His standards are so low for us that we didn’t have to do anything in order to get right with him. He did that all by himself through giving his son Jesus.

[@peterhudson5748]

@@Kronoblade99 unborn children and billions of animals weren’t innocent? This is all academic, as none of this actually happened. It’s just a bunch of silly old stories.

[@marcellofunhouse1234]

@@peterhudson5748 everyone who's born is with sin

[@lauterunvollkommenheit4344]

What makes people defend the massacre of innocent children?

[@atomterrible]

One I hear often is that it's okay to kill children because they won't have a high quality of life. Wait, that's for abortion. Sorry.

[@lauterunvollkommenheit4344]

@@atomterrible I don't think it's arguments that convince people in these cases.

[@CricketFan-js5ee]

@@atomterrible how about giving them good life instead of killing? How can you kill anyone just because they are poor ? Or you believing that they are not living good life or ignorant etc???

[@divac7777]

How do you know they were human?

[@davidwilson7082]

Stupidity.

[@sophielesher8002]

I learned not to take this literally… because in the following verses, they talk about the canaanite women and children assimilating. it was written as an exaggeration, like saying “that team annhilated the other”. they didn’t actually kill them all, they just won definitively.

[@godloves9163]

Ah yes indeed that’s true.

[@ReasonQuest]

Um. No. There are specific references to killing all the people-except the virgins! This isn't hyperbole. If it were, then the resurrection is too.

[@wreddgreen8365]

If God knew that they were going to sin, why wouldn't God prevent it from happening rather than murder them after the fact.

[@xBeeGee]

Because we have free will. You wouldn’t want something orchestrating your every move would you?

[@ronb8066]

@ALLAH IS SATAN and he wasn't able to prevent that from happening....

[@ronb8066]

@ALLAH IS SATAN and a classical excuse for doing evil.

[@Omar-jk8ny]

@ALLAH IS SATAN lol the same person who criticizes Islam for violent text when ur Bible has worse text

[@ashley_brown6106]

@@xBeeGee it's NOT free will if He's going to kill you or send you to hell if you don't do what He considers as "right". It's tyranny and dictatorship.

[@jstube36]

This sounds like a double standard. Anybody else who would order this mass-murder would de chastised heavily. But I see some chose to turn a blind eye or look the other way when their own deity commits this act.

[@JMRabil675]

Gods morality is supposed to be an extension of his nature. The 10 commandments are from his heart he put on ours, (thou shall not kill is one of them), YET God still commands killing of children, raping of women in Isiah 13, and so on. God is breaking his own nature and his own morality, even if it has good reasons. Its still wicked by biblical definition. Thats why im skeptical God actually commanded these things. These people were war-like because of the culture and life style of the time. Maybe they thought God commanded those specific things but in reality it was just the reality of war?

[@jstube36]

@@JMRabil675 The question I would ask. Why would God command his people to not murder or steal or covet thy neighbors goods. Then directs his people to massacre, plunder, and take the lands of their neighbors. In other words. What good are the commandments and laws, when they are not even followed by those who issue them?

[@mehmetsimsek4794]

@@jstube36 My view, those command were never meant to include foreigners. To me this is more obvious with slavery. Christians tend to soften the slavery by saying, it was voluntarialy, not like modern slavery, they are free 7 years or something. But they tend to ignore that Bible has completely different rules for foreign slaves. Why the different rules.? Yes bible says do not kidnap, but also in numerous occasion god orders it.(for foreigners of course). So I have the same view about other commandments. They change when it comes to foreigners. I have the same view on "love thy neighbour command." I dont think god/bible never meant to include non-christians. As seen in those verses or general in bible, god's people were never been good with their neighbours. I think "neighbour" term in bible only includes their own community

[@jstube36]

@@mehmetsimsek4794 It's these contradictions and moral double standards that are causing so many to reject the Bible. And triggering so many around the World to reject Religion altogether.

[@jamessmith785]

I think this question or argument only becomes a problem when we look at the taking of life from our worldly perspective. Why is killing one of the few things that when man does it is a sin but when God does it its somehow justified? It comes down to ownership. No life belongs to anyone since no man gave any life to anyone including their own. God gave all life and as such all life belongs to God. When we kill, even by suicide, we take a life that didnt belong to us and because of that we had no right to take it but God does. Also, if man kills they cannot raise it back to life again but if God so desired he can.

[@Dante-vf4sd]

Also everyone is deserving of death and will die and permanently but for the grace of God. God is perfect in justice and righteousness and there is no evil or incorrect decision in Him so everything that happens is 100% correct. To even contemplate otherwise is born of pride and 100% incorrect just like Satan was when he questioned God's sovereignty and just like Adam and Eve and all their descendants were when they did the same. Only faith and belief in the Truth, is the Way to Life, is the only correct path. God is the only and everlasting Truth, everything else is a lie.

[@jewulo]

@@Dante-vf4sd That is rather convenient isn't it? It is also rather very nihilistic. Whatever God (or a god, or any god) says is morally valid? Many a terrible thing has been done by this sort of reasoning. Moral issues can be reasoned about and concluded about by human reasoning. There is no historical evidence that religious people have ever been more morally sound or ethical in their behaviours. If we observe the historical record. We observe that we have become more moral not because of divine process but by a slow long plodding march through learning from our mistakes. It is not a smooth upward curve towards moral goodness. Rather we get better in fits and starts. There have been regressions but it seems that we are getting better despite some of the awful diktats of religious books. I hope that I have not been rude in my reply. If any brashness or rudeness is perceived I sincerely apologise.

[@eddyfye9783]

@@jewulo have we really become better? Money is concentrated in fewer hands. No justice for the millions who have hard lives because of laws which allow the greedy to exploit others. What about msm that blatantly lies? They claimed Russia interfered in the 2016 election . The3 haven't admitted their lies. What about Julian Assange in jail for publishing the truth about war crimes and pedopholia in high places. Nothing done. Epstein gets killed and his blackmail ring goes untouched. We get better by a change of heart not simply by law.

[@DaInvisibleNinja]

If i ever get godly powers over life and death i know who my first sacrifice is.

[@Dbadaing]

Oh. So you agree with ISIS.

[@bunnylady6758]

They were sacrificing children to their gods, their wickedness must be overwhelming that salvation is no longer possible unless they repent like Niniveh or Rahab. If God be God, it is in His nature to be just.

[@KEN-1991]

The Canaanites do that stuff, not God.

[@Demonoicgamer666]

Didn’t the ministry of the caininite carry out the act what do the children have to do with it? power makes mite according to god.

[@billbrock8547]

The killing of women and children is difficult to understand and accept if you believe that it was commanded by an all-knowing and loving God. But if you accept that the Bible was solely authored by tribal, Iron Age men, no further explanation is required.

[@963freeme]

You're right about that. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Ain't no God

[@omabador1702]

When a person watches porn, he/she is already mindf**ked....u seem 2 b that kind of person...ur mindf**ked opinions dont matter

[@mnm8818]

true true- also *if you swap God for a Governor of ancient Israel area* , who evolved via text to be a 'god' ruler, like many others at the time- the OT makes so much sense.

[@sirslob1]

What an ignorant response this is. So God had such a high level of incompetence in spreading his message that he couldn’t intervene in his own holy text to give the right moral instructions. That is mental gymnastics on a breathtakingly stupid level.

[@mnm8818]

@@sirslob1 yeah see above comment- everything makes sense if you swap God for a Governor of Ancient Israel, who became like Pharoah a 'god' ruler

[@moriahgamesdev]

You are mad sir. Stark raving mad.

[@jeanine219]

This Theodore Cabal reminds me of the featured Dateline interviews of psychopathic serial killers. His eyes are empty, and his entire countenance reflects a desolate depravity of spirit and mind.

[@moriahgamesdev]

@@jeanine219 Beautifully put. Unfortunately they don't see it because like those psychopaths they are operating from within broken minds, one step away from, 'the voice in my head told me to do it officer'

[@88s68]

It's funny how the trinitarian christians would say that this happened on the OT times , but then they said Jesus was God on the OT times, they frequently used the verse " ...before Abraham was i am.. " but when it comes to this they will find a way to twist it up

[@nickh.44]

As someone who has had faith and lost faith throughout his life, I am impressed by this mans answer. It makes much more sense now with the given contexts. Thanks for this unique perspective! Though I'm not sure I can fully support it all.

[@robertoriginales2355]

9 minutes of avoiding the question

[@choosegoodoverevil8380]

1:50 It’s almost like you didn’t even watch the video

[@thelightknight7245]

He did answer it. He jus didn't give the answer you were seeking. He's a righteous God, God can see past the future where you can't. You don't know what kind of people these children would have become. His judgement is righteous. Your not God

[@johnrep808]

Go with an open heart

[@sage9338]

@@thelightknight7245 then why make them in the first place? There would be no need to murder babies who may or may not have grown up to be horrible people if they were never created in the first place. But you don’t care tho lol

[@thelightknight7245]

@@sage9338 please don't insult or attack my character You know nothing about. If you have a question or a statement, just make it without the insults about people not caring. That would further prove you are allowing the devil to use you. If you have sex, there's a great chance your partner can get pregnant. God is not stopping people from making choices. But he is God, he does all things well. I don't have the answer to every thing he does. But who are we to question the All Knowing. Those people were sacrificing their own children before the command. Know what your talking about and pray before speaking. Bless you

[@johncampbell6465]

This is criminal insanity.

[@kelrogers8480]

Not at all. You really haven't listened. And coming from someone- I assume - supports the wholesale slaughter of helpless, unborn infants literally in their millions upon millions, because they happen to be inconvenient, your comment is sickeningly hypocritical and self-righteousness.

[@kelrogers8480]

God took out the entire human race violently in the flood. He's well within His rights to do so. I think perhaps what sets this incident apart is that God told the Israelites to do the killing. That's more visceral, that's harsh.

[@kelrogers8480]

You came with a set opinion and self righteous judgement. You did not come to listen, or learn or reason. I suggest if gives you a legitimate reason, at least in your own mind, to continue your rebellion and hatred against a Holy God. And you're not going to give that up, because then you have to be accountable for your life and actions before that very God you hate. And that's an unthinkable option for you.

[@davisbarr9112]

I liked mentioning rahab as David's grandmother instead of as just a liar.

[@rawrmosh2196]

Here’s the thing is that if people praise god, god won’t feel down for people who were victims of murder and rape bc he has lots of explaining to do for allowing these things to happen and sure we learn from these things and become smarter but solving things is important instead of telling god to deal with it and be over with it without solving it. Bc if you pray to god to get out of losing your loved ones it means you’ve lost sig of reality bc you want to be happy

[@wgerd98]

Gotta say this is a pretty convincing cult, almost had me frustrated with a thing that doesn't exist

[@potatochipappi]

Wake up.... everything you think you know what placed upon you by your government. That's why you think there are planets and aliens in space. Space is the astral real for spirituality, nothing physical can work properly there if not they would have gone to Jupiter since 1860. Look within your heart....the journey to the truth starts with understand your emotions and the fucntion in line with your physical nature. You then start to see that you're not far from spirituality. Don't allow your pride get you caught in the storm.

[@wesleygordon1645]

There is no so called cult in the Bible only the mind & purposes of the one true God!

[@DaInvisibleNinja]

@@wesleygordon1645 says every cult.

[@stonystoner895]

@@DaInvisibleNinja have you even read the bible ej ? Or just make flippant remarks on what you don't understand.

[@EmersumBiggins]

@@stonystoner895 Reading the Bible is the most likely way to become an atheist 🙂

[@engiecat705]

According to the book of Leviticus, first chapter onward, the burning flesh of sacrificial animals is, quote, "aroma pleasing to god". Now, take a moment to think about it. An all loving god creates living creatures with a peculiar property: they smell pleasant to his senses when you burn them. If you believe in a good god - you probably are a good person. Bad news for you: the good god you believe in doesn't exist... anywhere on the pages of the bible itself. The book of Leviticus offers some extra insight for you. It says that the animals (or grains) of sacrifice should be of the best quality you can afford. And that a sizeable part of it shall go to the priests. That's the same god that can feed hundreds of people with a couple of fish? And he can't provide for his closest priests, and wants you to give them your best stock instead? What is more likely?

[@PicturesofTravel]

God hates his own creation

[@itiswritten9423]

@@PicturesofTravel You will stand in judgement before this very same God you claim "hates his own creation". When you stand before Him to give an account of your life, I hope you will be bold enough to tell him how he hates his own creation.

[@eccolibri]

These were the first of the prosperity evangelists that plague our world today.

[@douglaidlaw740]

And what are you going to do about it? Keep living in the past, instead of in the world that needs you? In my view, this part of the Bible is typical of a religion in the early stages of development, but the question remains, so what? I have difficulties with love. I was born with major depression, which makes me feel like a visitor from another world, unable to relate, but instead of withdrawing and waiting for a new pill to come along, I treated depression as a disability. I kept applying for work, even though I could not last in any job for longer than 5 years. When I met my future wife, I expected to feel some of the Hollywood signs of love, but there was only the fact that from the moment we met, we were an obvious "item." Today, we have ben married for 51 years, and enjoyed every minute of it. But despite all this, I still believe those who have a loving response to others are more godly, because, as John wrote, God is Love. Although I cannot see myself objectively, others have told me I am a kind person. I rather speculate on how a "wet blanket" can fit in Heaven, but I don't let it trouble me. Jesus said that Christians are "in this world, but not of this world." That is the kind of person I try to be. For the rest, like St Paul, I leave it to God, on a wait and see basis. The spiritual world will be nothing like this world, but until I arrive there, I have no idea what it will be like. It may have characteristics fom other religions; I simply don't know, and I don't need to know. Today is the only day where I can make a difference at all. So, I live in today's world.

[@lufhopespeacefully2037]

hi there.hola hooray hey. here we go the truth coming up,actually turah&bible were from god but they had been corrupted afterwards as a result god sent down quran upon prophet muhammed&god said i`ll preserved the quran thereby god had fulfilled his promise ,let me show u friendly&honestly the truth,okee dokee.shedding the light on christianity to know the truth first of all there is no original bible the 4 main bible are contradicted to each other yet there is 1 quran but who is the writer of bible the answer is paul the jewish who hates jesus let us discuss about the significant event which is crucifixion why does your would claimed god left his only son to crucify without any sin he had committed the disaster reached its uttermost when u found bible said on the tongue of jesus my god my god why do u forsaken me means jesus has never crucified willingly have u an idea why do they `ve crucified jesus because it`s a penalty of an impure &particularly crucifixion because dindn`t touched the earth make it an impured that what paul said jesus gets impure for the sake of us &see the authentic god what does said in quran chapter 3 verse 55 by the name of god the most gracious&most merciful , O Jesus, I will take you and raise you up to me, and had purified you from those who disbelieve, and He will place those who follow you above those who disbelieve until the Day of Resurrection, then to Me is your return, so I will judge between you regarding that in which you differed,the authentic god rose jesus to the sky before they kill him in addition he had purified him from a false accusation of he was an impure . quran verse is comply with the bible itself :So they lifted up stones to stone him. But Jesus did and went out of the temple, passing through them." ( John 8:59 ),let alone of many verses in the bible incites to violence thus u found the largest massacres had happened in history the ww1&2 christian countries against christian countries 100 millions had been killed not to mention the sex stories in the bible nay u never found a single sex word in quran,don`t take it in personal just i clarify u the plain truth,bible said woman when she during the menstruation she gets impure &any thing she would touched it will be impure &should stay at her room till had done of it don`t see that an insulting to woman &how does the claimed god in bible said so he demeans& underrates his own creatures, yet islam honored the woman &she has a complete chapter its name women show us her rights,let us look at modern medicine which refutes the bible, ovulalation happens every 28 days from overy next month from other ovary when fertilization fails to happen mestrual bleading happens it always stops when a female gets pregnant ,menstrual cycle ovulation the female genital system consists of one uterus to overuse vagine& externat genital organs ,,the blood during menstruation could cause diseases to spread and that’s why does a woman during her menstruation needed to isolate so the blood would not be passed around to other people & diseases not be spread that`s what god has said in quran and they ask you about menstruation say, isolate women don't come near them untill they get purified verse 222 chapter 2,why there are priests,pastors&nuns are reverted daily to islam,yet u `ve never a muslim clergy left islam as per western media said that islam is the fastest growing religion in the world,i didn`t like to push islam onto u god said no compulsion in religion verse 256 chapter 2,figure it out then make up your mind,peace....

[@stevetindel7130]

This is definitely a tough one to fathom in light of Jesus instructions to LoVe our enemies,and pray for them, and to be at peace with all men... His final words on the cross “Father forgive them for they know not what they do...

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

I mean, Jesus is a pretty angry dude according to the writers of the Gospels of Mark and Matthew. Cursing people who ask for his help, calling his own disciple Satan, flipping tables and beating people with a whip, and even cursing fig trees etc. "His final words on the cross “Father forgive them for they know not what they do..." Depends what Gospel you read. In the Gospel of Luke Jesus's last words were supposedly, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit."

[@stevetindel7130]

@@BlGGESTBROTHER Thankx for you thoughtful response... Good points with the temple cleansing ordeal! He was pissed off at the perversion of the religious system and how they miss represent God and take advantage of the people! Still doin it today ... Jesus definitely reached out and cared for the needy and taught of a simple child like faith , and demonstrates true unconditional LoVe on His sacrifice for all... Remember He had a human side too and divine!

[@wantlessworkless.2558]

@@BlGGESTBROTHER The writers of the Bible should have hired a "Proof reader", the contradictions are astounding.

[@BlGGESTBROTHER]

@@wantlessworkless.2558 Yeah, when you read them "horizontally" as Bart Ehrman calls it; you start to see just how much they conflict with each other. I doubt the authors of the Gospels had even the slightest inkling that their works would be stitched together to form a New Testament.

[@larryg6865]

Wow if Christianity means defending genocide than it’s definitely not for me.

[@abelhamsa8382]

Imagine your neighbours placing their children on bronze alters which are heated red hot and killing them as sacrifice to gods…and the cries of those children you hear day and night for years. What would you do? And if those same neighbours come to your house and teach your parents to do the same i.e to sacrifice you, how would you react?

[@larryg6865]

@@abelhamsa8382 all I hear is someone else defending genocide.

[@abelhamsa8382]

@@larryg6865 I was just asking what would you do

[@abelhamsa8382]

@@larryg6865 they were given 400 years to change their ways… but they kept on killing their children. The Israelites were learning these practices and offering their children as well.

[@larryg6865]

@@abelhamsa8382 I understand sorry I snapped at you. I don’t believe in the historical accuracy any of it anyway. I speak as an Ex Christian but much respect to your and your spiritual journey.

[@BobPulgino]

Fictional characters are always shaped by the flaws, desires and intentions of their authors.

[@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys]

Yes Fictional is the key word~!!

[@AV036]

Archaeology and ancient history shouldn't be confused with ones own relic of a religion Bob.

[@AV036]

@@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys It is entirely logical to assume the 'atheist' and not a satanist will experience the more traumatic adjustment or realisation at death.

[@BobPulgino]

AVO I have no idea what you’re trying to say there ... I have no religion, relic or other. Step back, take a deep breath, and try again.

[@AV036]

That's bullshit Bob you had a religious enema just like i did growing up, and yet here you are trying to maintain your intellectual distance with a few passive aggressive posts. "You have no idea", but just enough pride over intellect to dismiss a historical fact because you can't separate your misconception of God from the event. Is it just ancient history or is the civil war, WW I/II, Korea, Vietnam etc. a fiction for you Bob..or, only if a Historian should imagine God to have played a role in any of those events too? Whoah up there, I don't give a toss about your soulless superstitions Bob, but for anyone to agree with you and refute history based on your rational is attempting a fools folly. That's disturbing.

[@jaymichael91]

My thought is because everything is in His hands and His hands are in everything.

[@mikeswanto4465]

They were offering and burning there kids to baal and practicing all kinds of evil witchcraft sorcery etc!!! Don’t we do the same? If a parent kills there child or another person don’t they get death penalty?!

[@9livesmatter576]

Thank God for His grace and mercy. For by faith in his Son Jesus Christ we are saved. Praise God.

[@mashah1085]

Apologists try to claim that the Amalekite children were "evil, same as the adults". Okay, how exactly is a 2 year old "evil"? Or a year old...or a 6 month old? Love the "pro-lifers" to explain that.

[@alguno1010101]

God was jealous that they were sacrificing children to other gods, so he demanded all their children to be sacrificed to them

[@watchman895]

Nephilim is a key to solve all the bible questions. My answer is that the canaanite people are not pure humanraces. They are contamminated by the blood of angels. Nephilim seen in the canaanite is evidence. Gen6 says people become flesh. It means they have only flesh without soul. It means they like beasts. Even children.

[@mashah1085]

@@watchman895 Much easier than admitting the Israelites were just engaging in genocide and then claiming "God said it was okay", right?

[@watchman895]

@@mashah1085 right. It is a kind of genocide - killing zombies. And if Israel had not killed that zombies Jesus christ couldn't come to this zombi world. Then the earth belongs to satan and his corrupted angels.

[@mashah1085]

@@watchman895 Curious as to whether you are being sarcastic or insane?

[@BobPulgino]

Reading these comments ... I’ve never laughed so hard in my life. Some of you people are frightening though.

[@DaInvisibleNinja]

@יהוכנן לבי he means people like you....

[@DaInvisibleNinja]

@יהוכנן לבי I know that common sense is an unfamiliar concept to you but its pretty obvious who he's talking about.

[@julianmarsh1378]

Same old 'the Lord works in mysterious ways..' Nothing moral about this god...

[@user-te4bf6ye7r]

Glad to see so many people still on this video love you all brothers prayers that we can all live peacefully until God takes us home

[@phumeoli]

"peacefully" ...Please explain.

[@LindsayJackel]

What’s offensive is that all too many people believe women and children are more precious and valuable than men. All humans are of equal value and worth. It is evil to prioritise one group over another.

[@koonkoon01]

This is what I don't get nowadays. That drama of who's superior and who's boss doesn't really make sense to me. It should be of harmony, God made us that way. To support each other and make good things. People really need to let go of their pride and be humbled.

[@earnestlycontendingforthef5332]

​@@koonkoon01 It's very simple and plain enough if we humbly accept the "Word of God." The woman Eve, was created for the benefit of man. "If a woman will not wear [a head] covering, then she should cut off her hair too; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her head shorn or shaven, let her cover [her head]. 7 For a man ought not to wear anything on his head [in church], for he is the image and [reflected] glory of God [ his function of government reflects the majesty of the divine Rule]; but woman is [the expression of] man's glory (majesty, preeminence). 8 For man was not [created] from woman, but woman from man; 9 Neither was man created on account of or for the benefit of woman, but woman on account of and for the benefit of man. 10 Therefore she should [be subject to his authority and should] have a covering on her head [as a token, a symbol, of her submission to authority, that she may show reverence as do] the angels [and not displease them]. " 1 Corinthians 11:6-10 (AMP.BIBLE)

[@luckypurl]

One of the few on here making sense. The idea that it's acceptable to kill men, but once you kill women you've crossed a line, is completely unbiblical and it's completely amoral. It's simply a gross cultural preference that our culture made up and tries to impose on other cultures who know better.

[@jimmysimms2399]

I first had doubts about God when I was about 8 years old and heard some of the stories in the Old Testament about God ordering the killing of innocent men, women, and children, and not only that but the killing of their animals. Christians love the story of Daniel being spared in the lions den whereas to me the end of that story is horrific. God spared Daniel but the men who betrayed him were thrown to the lions and killed. Not only that but their wives and children were thrown to the lions and killed. I still can't figure out what the women and children did to deserve being torn to pieces. I am now a fully committed atheist.

[@albusai]

Jimmy Simms foreknowledge of them , would you have killed hitler as a child if you knew what he would become ?

[@jimmysimms2399]

@@albusai"God" had plenty of chances to kill Hitler and didn't. In the 1st World War, during one of his marches when people were shot dead all round him. He killed children but let Hitler live. Why ??

[@TruckTruck-gu9vs]

Jimmy Simms I feel like the basis of your question is false. You want those who have a worldview that centers around the immaterial and eternal to give an explanation that is based on your materialistic worldview. We had a stillborn child who had some serious health issues. Doctors knew of the issues but we're surprised to find her dying in the womb right at the end of the pregnancy. We prayed for God's will from the beginning and wanted Him to intervene to heal her. We were heartbroken because of her mallady and did not want her to suffer. Her heart unexpectedly stopped as we were told in the hospital. She is with God as we understand it and no longer suffering. While it is difficult for us to understand and we miss her, we are happy that she is in Paradise and we will see her one day. We had since been blessed with two more healthy girls. My point is you understand these things differently because you don't believe in eternal life. Also there are things that neither you nor I can understand due to our limited perspective so it's good to not be overly presumptuous. Maybe the saying He is God and we are not would apply here.

[@jimmysimms2399]

@@TruckTruck-gu9vs I'm really happy that your faith helped you ansd your wife to get through what must have been a very difficult period in your lives. I'm especially happy that you went on to have children. I don't want to debate with you my atheist beliefs because you are happy and secure in your faith in God. I'm also very content in my belief. I have a terminal illness and will meet my end unshaken in this belief and have already stated that there is to be no religious ceremony when I die. I wish you and your family a happy healthy future.

[@TruckTruck-gu9vs]

@@jimmysimms2399 As for faith I can only be a witness to what I know to be true. But so hope for your mind to change in this matter, though I wish you well in your life regardless.

[@jimurban5367]

Please cite the supposed archaeological evidence that you mentioned at about 3:30.

[@eduardomanalili9154]

If you will not kill your enemies time will come they fight do revenge.