Okay, if you want to indulge, let’s get back to the old issue that Steelfish and I discussed a couple of weeks ago:
1 Samuel 15: 3.
I don’t see any good in the act that is ordered in this verse. What is your take? (the replies in the other threads weren’t convincing enough, but rather, highly indulgent in excuse-making for mandated ritual child-slaughter).
Does God have the right to kill people?
If so, does God have the right to deputize others to kill?
Do people have the right to deputize themselves
How does one know?
And what are the consequences of disobeying God in such a case? (see also 1 Kings 20).
Nice try, though.
A couple weeks ago when he outed you for being a retread? Or rather, you outed yourself in post 121.....
You mean this thread?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2478926/posts?page=121#121
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2478926/posts?page=122#122
I Samuel 15:1 Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one the LORD sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the LORD. 2 This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.' "
Taking one verse and trying to make a case for it doesn't work. It wasn't slaughter for slaughter's sake, although since you don't believe in God I'd guess that you just figure that they use the *God told us to do it* as an excuse. God was punishing them and He did institute the death penalty. God, being the giver of life, also has the right to decide when it is time for someone to die.
Do you condemn all others who slaughter tribes and children as well? You're not bringing any of them up. Just like the usual selective condemnation of anything perceived as wrong when a religious group is involved with deafening silence when the left does it. How do you feel about the ritual slaughter of babies by abortion that is promoted by the left? Are you going to condemn Planned parenthood as well?