By that tortured logic, The Old testament talks about Saul being told by God (thru prophet Samuel)to kill all the Philistine babies and women. Does that mean its also ok to kill babies,,, sometimes?
I don’t like it, but so it would seem.
>Does that mean its also ok to kill babies,,, sometimes?<
Actually, conditionally, yes. Taking the larger context, when your God does things like
part a sea for you to go through,while drowning all your oppressors,
after outdoing all their supernatural competition big time,
and feeds you clearly miraculously,
and you wake up in the morning and are led day by day by a cloud that stops for day or so, and a pillar of fire at night,
etc.
and the nations He commands them to destroy have been engaging in gross sinful behavior (read what God told Israel not to do morally) which was destructive to self and other cultures (we are doing much now also)
and you live in a physical theocracy, which used physical means of warfare, unlike the church is given
and this God is manifested as the true God, the author of life, and has the right to take life, not only the wicked who deserve to, but the innocent which he can save from following their steps.
He will do such again, but in time, in His long suffering toward mankind who has unjustly hurt the innocent and each other, and and messed up His earth, disobeying His good laws and misusing the good things that he gave us, which are all for our good. Best to be on the Lord’s side when the age of grace is over. Or your own life.
Ecc 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Act 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
1Pe 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: