Seems God wanted the Israelites to invade the lands of others, and kill them and tear down their temples.
There you go misquoting scripture again. The area where all these people's lived is what is now called the land of Israel. This is the only place G-d ever told His people to clear out the pagans from the land.
Genesis 13:14-18, "14 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; 15, for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever. 16 "I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered. 17 "Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you." 18 Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.
Gen 15: 12-21, says, "12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror {and} great darkness fell upon him. 13 {God} said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. 14 "But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions. 15 "As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. 16 "Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete."18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite 20 and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim 21 and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite."
G-d gave the Amorites and the other peoples living in the land over 400 years to repent of their iniquity but they refused to do so therefore G-d gave the Israelites their land and he gave them the right to drive them out by any means neccessary.
Yeah, I'm really sure Christ is pissed off that people celebrate their friends and loved ones birthdays...
I wouldn't be surprised if it made him unhappy. The entire tradition of celebrating birtdays comes from the pagan belief in astrology. As you know, one's date of birth is pretty important to know as a starting point for astrology. Anything which doesn't come from G-d comes from somewhere else.
> This is the only place G-d ever told His people to clear out the pagans from the land.
Hmm. And that's different from the Islamic wars of conquest... how?
> G-d gave the Amorites and the other peoples living in the land over 400 years to repent of their iniquity but they refused to do so therefore G-d gave the Israelites their land and he gave them the right to drive them out by any means neccessary.
What a marvelous excuse. Next time I need to find a reason to exterminate some group of people whose land I desire, I think I'll use that one.
> The entire tradition of celebrating birtdays comes from the pagan belief in astrology.
Ands the entirety of *astronomy* comes fromt he pagan belief in astrology. So I dearly hope you don't believe that heretical crap about the Earth goign aroudn the Sun, or the stars being anything but points of light in the sky...
> Anything which doesn't come from G-d comes from somewhere else.
Indeed, the Internet is clearly trhe tool of Satan.