Comments on: Does God Contradict Himself?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:21:46 +0000

It also says that God visits the iniquity of the fathers on their progeny up to their 4th generation – thus, it is entirely possible that God judged the 3rd and 4th generation on the spot because He judged the fathers worthy of that penalty. God let David’s baby die as a judgment when he slept with Bathsheba. What had be baby done to deserve it? Nothing. It was a judgment on David that fell on the baby. God saw fit to wipe the generations from the face of the earth and chose to do so using Israel as an instrument of judgment (i.e.: whereas, at other times, He chose to do the entire job Himself – re: the flood, Sodom & Gomorrah). Another note should be that this was neither the first nor last time God would use a nation to judge another nation (the Moabites displaced the Emim [Dt 2:11], and later the Babylonians were used to judge Israel – just to name a couple).
The Command not to murder is for Law-abiding citizens; the Command to execute justice includes murder – it depends upon the circumstances surrounding each and every case (it is on a case-by-case, person-by-person basis).

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:12:24 +0000

In the same Law where God tells people not to murder others, He also says to murder any Israelite who is a false prophet leading you away to another god; thus, the problem is not with the Bible but with your superficial and shallow interpretation of what the Bible is saying: the commandment is more like “do not murder any person who is a Torah/Law-observant, holy worshipper of God, who has done nothing worthy of the death sentence; but DO execute justice (up to, and including murder) against certain rebels – both among your own people and among other peoples in Canaan whom you will displace.”

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:20:57 +0000

These websites offer a great explanation as to the reasons why God punished the people of the land. And, they were without excuse, for the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were not far away and stood as visual reminders of practicing ungodly heavier.

I’m sorry that some do not understand or appreciate the sovereignty of God. But “faith” is just that – a belief that often flys in the face of “evidences” or personal perspectives. However, there are two things that must be considered: #1 Whenever God seems to be a contradiction, it is only my lack (or mankinds) of understanding. After all, He is God and His ways are much higher than my ways and His thoughts so beyond mine. #2 It is unfair to put my cultural lens on passages in the Bible to try to understand it. Context is everything, and unless I fully understand or appreciate the cultural lens, it is unfair to impose my lens on the people or the laws of God.

http://christianthinktank.com/qamorite.html
http://www.rationalchristianity.net/genocide.html

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:35:54 +0000

For every passage in the bible there seems to be a condtradiction that counter attacks it like the people who wrote it were bored or mentally nuts.

Maybe both?

Sorry if I offend any Christians but the idea of God is very irrational. I used to try and believe in God but I just cannot stomach all the contradictions in the bible and I am literally shocked since no one ever taught me about contradictions.

I am VERY dissapointed in the Christian religion and feel ashamed for ignoring my doubts as Christians do not use reason judgement when explaining their *faith*.

By: SOMOG

SOMOG — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:27:14 +0000

He had Father do away with son and brother do away with brother.

Family were split up in this way as to protect new children from being exposed to such corruptivity.

God actually did this to protect people.

The reason contradictions are found, is because it has been poorly translated into English.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:11:18 +0000

Your answer, while semantically pleasing is absolute hogwash. It’s fiddling at the margins over definitions. God, as an entity and a perfect reflection of mankind ordered others to do the killing—yes, the murdering.

I’m sure that innocents were slain in the massacre. Just because God did it by proxy, those involved in the “justified killing,” also committed murder.