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THE BIBLE
AND GENOCIDE:
Deut 7:1 ...many nations--the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites,
Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations....you
must destroy them totally....show them no mercy....For you are
a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen
you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth....
Numbers 31:17: "Now
therefore kill every male among the little ones."
Deut. 2:34: ". . . utterly destroyed the men and the women
and the little ones."
Deut. 28:53: "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own
body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters."
ISam. 15:3 ". . .slay
both man and woman, infant and suckling."
IIKings 15:16: ".
. .all the women therein that were with child he ripped up."
Is. 13:16: "Their
children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their
houses shall be spoiled and their wives ravished."
Is. 13:18: "They
shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall
not spare children."
Ez. 9:6: "Slay utterly
old and young, both maids and little children."
Hosea 13:16: . . ."their
infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child
shall be ripped up."
Numbers 31: 18 "But
all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him,
keep alive for yourselves."
Ex. 32:27 "Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side,
and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and
slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and
every man his neighbour.
Deut 2:32 When Sihon and
all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz,
2:33 the LORD our God delivered him over to us and we struck
him down, together with his sons and his whole army. 2:34 At
that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them--men,
women and children. We left no survivors.
Josh. 10:40 . . . the country of the hills, and of the south,
and of the vale, and of the springs and all their kings; he left
none remaining but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the
Lord God of Israel commanded.
GOD ORDERS
AND CARRIES OUT MURDER:
The entire population of the earth except for eight survivors
(Genesis 7:23), every inhabitant of Sodom and Gomorrah except
for one family (Genesis 19:24), every first born of Egypt (Exodus
12:29), all the hosts of the Pharaoh, including the captains
of 600 chariots (Exodus 14:27,28), Amalek and his people (Exodus
17:11,16), 3,000 Israelites (Exodus 32:27), Homosexuals (Leviticus
20:13), 250 Levite princes who had challenged the leadership
of Moses (Numbers 16:1-40), 14,700 Jews in a plague who had rebelled
against Moses following the killing of the princes (Numbers 16:41-49),
all the subjects of Og (Numbers 21:34, 35), 24,000 Israelites
who lived with Moabite women (Numbers 25:4, 9) all the males,
kings, and non-virgin females of the Midianites (Numbers 31:7,
8), the Ammonites (Deuteronomy 2:19-21), the Horims (Deuteronomy
2:22), all the citizens of Jericho, except for a prostitute and
her family (Joshua 6), 12,000 citizens of Ai. Joshua hung the
king on a tree (Joshua 8:1-30), all the people of Makkedah (Joshua
10:28), all the people of Libnah (Joshua 10:29, 30), all the
people of Gezer (Joshua 10:33), all the people of Lachish (Joshua
10:32), all the people of Eglon (Joshua 10:34, 35), all the people
of Hebron (Joshua 10:36, 37), all the inhabitants of 1 of the
country of the hills, and of, the south, and the vale, and of
the springs and all their kings (Joshua 10:40), all 31 kings
and inhabitants of their countries, and south country, and the
land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain
of Israel, and the valley of the same from Mt. Halak to Mt. Hermon
(Joshua 11:12, 16, 17, 12:24), 10,000 Moabites (Judges 3:29),
10,000 Perizzites and Canaanites (Judges 1:4), 600 Phillistines
(Judges 3:31), all of Sisera (Judges 4:16), 120,000 Midianites
(Judges 8:10), 25,100 Benjaminites (Judges 20:35), 50,070 people
of Bethshemesh (I Samuel 6:19), all the Amalekites (I Samuel
15:3, 7), the armies and five kings of the Amorites (Amos 3:2),
the Moabites and 22,000 Syrians (II Samuel 8:2, 5, 6, 14), 40,000
Syrian horsemen (II Samuel 10:18), 100,000 Syrian footmen, followed
by 27,000 who are all crushed by a wall (I Kings 20:28, 29, 30),
42 children eaten by a bear (II Kings 2:23, 24), 185,000 Assyrians
killed by an angel (II Kings 19:35), 10,000 Edomites, followed
by 10,000 more whose killers brought them to the top of the rock,
and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they were broken
in pieces (II Chronicles 28), 120,000 Judeans (II Chronicles
28), 75,000 Persians (Esther 9:16).
THE BIBLE
AND SLAVERY:
"Servants,
be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good
and gentle, but also to the froward" (1 Peter 2:18).
"Servants, be obedient
to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear
and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ"
(Ephesians 6:5).
"A servant will not
be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer"
(Proverbs 29:19).
"And if a man smite
the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish;
he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. And if he smite
out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall
let him go free for his tooth's sake" (Exodus 21:26-27).
"Both thy bondmen,
and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen
that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids"
(Leviticus 25:44).
"If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve:
and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came
in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married,
then his wife shall go out with him. If his master have given
him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife
and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by
himself. And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master,
my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: Then his master
shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the
door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear
through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever" (Exodus
21:2-6).
"And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod,
and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding,
if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he
is his money" (Exodus 21:20-21).
"And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she
shall not go out as the menservants do. If she please not her
master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let
her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation, he shall
have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. And
if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her
after the manner of daughters. If he take him another wife: her
food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish"
(Exodus 21:7-10).
"If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the
ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten;
but the owner of the ox shall be quit. But if the ox were wont
to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified
to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed
a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also
shall be put to death. . . . If the ox shall push a manservant
or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels
of silver, and the ox shall be stoned" (Exodus 21:28-32).
"Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn
among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are
with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your
possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your
children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall
be your bondmen for ever" (Leviticus 25:44-46).
"Servants, obey in all things your masters according to
the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness
of heart, fearing God" (Colossians 3:22).
"Slaves, obey your
earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart,
as you obey Christ; not only while being watched, and in order
to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God
from the heart" (Eph. 6:5-6).
"Exhort servants to
be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in
all things; not answering again; Not purloining, but shewing
all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our
Savior in all things" (Titus 2:9-10).
"And when the Lord
thy God hath delivered [a city] into thine hands, thou shalt
smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: But the
women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in
the city, even the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself;
and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord
thy God hath given thee" (Deuteronomy 20:13-14).
"A disciple is not
above the teacher, nor a slave above the master" (Matt.
10:24).
"Who then is the faithful
and wise slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household,
to give the other slaves their allowance of food at the proper
time? Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work
when he arrives" (Matt. 24:45-46).
"Let all who are under
the yoke of slavery regard their masters as worthy of all honor,
so that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed.
Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful to
them on the ground that they are members of the church; rather
they must serve them all the more, since those who benefit by
their service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these
duties. Whoever teaches otherwise and does not agree with the
sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that is
in accordance with godliness, is conceited, understanding nothing,
and has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about
words. From these come envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,
and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft
of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain"
(1Tim. 6:1-5).
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