Split from: DV Christians Unite! (Christian Only Thread)

[JoannaB]

I did not intend on participating in this thread but I feel I need to point out that some Christians do not believe that the parts of the bible where God ordained the eradication of another people and the killing of children etc can possibly be true. I am a Christian. However, I believe that the bible was written by human beings, and they had their own agendas. The part of the bible that attributes to God the blessing of such atrocities cannot be true according to my belief: the human beings who were in charge of Israel committed genocide at that time, and genocide is not right whether it is done by the Israelites or by the Nazis. Those who win wars write the history books justifying what they did. And the bible is many things, among them it is a history book and at times also political propaganda. I believe that there is much truth in the bible, but not everything in the bible is true. It is difficult for Christians who believe the way I do to figure out what parts are right and what parts are wrong at times. However, this passage is not one of the difficult ones: God cannot have ordered the Israelites to eradicate the Amalekites. This is not something a loving God could have done. If God did order this, then the God I believe in does not exist, and I am wrong to worship him. However, I believe I am right to worship God, and I believe that this is a clear example of the bible being shockingly wrong because it was written by human beings. Edit: Oh, and it would not matter what the Amalekites would do in the future no matter how much God knows the future, people do not get punished for things they did not do yet. Just as an infant who dies will not go to hell even if he could have become a serial killer if he had lived, so the eradication of a people because of something that they could or would do in the future cannot be justified.