[watchin]

Wars and wife beating? Are you serious? Christianity was responsible for all of that? Sheesh. I never knew.

Now, what about the kidnappings, revolutions, terrorism, piracy, slavery, and suicide bombings? And more importantly, where are the Bible verses encouraging Christians to wars and wife beating??

Take a look see at the koran and the Bible, then at the first 500 years of Christianity and Islam, and see if you still come up with some equivalency.

[Aliska]

Nowhere did I say anything about equivalency. Nowhere in the bible did it say anything about wife beating. But people did it and still do. Even supposedly nice Christians before it became fashionable to call the police.

There are things in the OT that people would not do today. No one would march around a town blowing trumpets. They would be arrested. You need a permit ;-).

God ordered killing in the OT. In one case it was to be every man, woman, child and their animals. They were not even to take spoils. I'm not pronouncing judgement on God. I am just calling to your attention that it is in the bible.