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To: wagglebee
"Listening to atheists mangle the Bible to justify their agenda is quite amusing."

Delighted you are amused, but I'm willing to let the Bible speak for itself.

Since all these killings were at God's command, and since killing all the people in a city is certainly going to include some women, "with child," wouldn't that include the killing of the unborn?

But of the cities of these people, which the Lord they God doth give thee for an inheritance, though shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, but thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the Lord they God hath commanded thee. [Deut. 20:16&17]

And the Lord said unto Joshua, fear not, neither be thou dismayed. Take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai ... And it came to pass, when Israel had ceased slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. And so it was that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. For Joshua drew not his had back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. [Joshua 8:1,24-26]

And that day Joshu took Makkedah and smote it with the edge of the sword, and its king he utterly destroy, them, and all the souls that were in it; he let none remain ... [Joshua 10:28]

So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the Negev, and of the Shephelah, and of the srings, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed as the Lord God of Israel commanded. [Joshua 10:40] Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and sucking, ox and sheep, camel and ass. [I Samuel 15:3]

Apparently, the God of the Bible is not too squeamish about the death of the unborn, or anyone or anything else, it would seem.

"'The other question is, if God opposes abortion, why doesn’t he use His power to force people not to have them?'

By your logic, God must also be in favor of all other forms of murder, rape, armed robbery, arson"

Well that's not my logic. You thought that up all by yourslef. Very strange way to think.

But you didn't answer the question. Perhaps you can't.

Hank

153 posted on 04/06/2010 6:54:45 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief; metmom; xzins; bcsco; Coleus; narses; BykrBayb; floriduh voter; Lesforlife; MrB; ...
Since all these killings were at God's command, and since killing all the people in a city is certainly going to include some women, "with child," wouldn't that include the killing of the unborn?

So, you DO believe that God condones abortion?

You wrote:
The other question is, if God opposes abortion, why doesn’t he use His power to force people not to have them?

To which I responded:
By your logic, God must also be in favor of all other forms of murder, rape, armed robbery, arson, etc.

And now you say:
Well that's not my logic. You thought that up all by yourslef[sic]. Very strange way to think.

How is that NOT your logic? Your logic is that if God doesn't stop something it's because He doesn't oppose it. That logic is plain to any logical person reading your post.

155 posted on 04/06/2010 7:02:56 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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