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ReplyDeleteWhy Did God Order The Killing Of Women And Children?
Why did God sometimes command the armies of Israel to destroy women and children when subduing their enemies?
Note that God only gave such instructions concerning some cities Sometimes God told them to keep all the women and children alive
This seems to be a huge stumbling-block to many. How could a God of love do such a terrible thing?
The Bible clearly states that the peoples destroyed by Israel were guilty of gross sexual sins (Leviticus 18:6-27, especially note 24 & 27). As we have seen in our present day, sexually transmitted diseases run rampant like a plague in a permissive society -- think of AIDS.
God, in order to keep His Word, and send the Messiah through the people of Israel, had to maintain a pure seed in Israel. He could not allow the people of Israel to be corrupted and destroyed by these sexually-perverted people who were then living in the land.
Viewed in light of the above facts, it becomes clear that God's order to destroy a few cities, including women and children, was in fact a necessary, and even merciful judgment when viewed from the standpoint of the whole human race. Some had to die in order that many might be saved.
God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Something's coming, its like a balloon about to burst.