"Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!" (Psalms 137:9)
Thoughts?
"If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife [a]you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ , you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him. But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death ." ( Dueteronomy 13 : 6-9)
Seems pretty terrorist-ic to me.
"But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them--bring them here and kill them in front of me.'" (Luke 19:27)
How is this not terrorism? If you would not bow to the Dali Lama and a Buddhist killed you for that. What would you call it?
If Christians only read there Bible, well maybe they'd stop eating pork at least, seeing theres 32 Biblical verses forbidding its consumption.
"Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!" (Psalms 137:9)
Psalms 137
Longing for Zion in a Foreign Land
By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down, yea, we wept
When we remembered Zion.
We hung our harps
Upon the willows in the midst of it.
For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a song,
And those who plundered us
requested mirth,
Saying, “Sing us
one of the songs of Zion!”
How shall we sing the Lord’s song
In a foreign land?
If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
Let my right hand forget
its skill!
If I do not remember you,
Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth—
If I do not exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.
Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said, “Raze
it, raze
it,
To its very foundation!”
O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed,
Happy the one who repays you as you have served us!
Happy the one who takes and dashes
Your little ones against the rock!
The Babylonians had been very cruel when they conquered Jerusalem as well as other nations and kingdoms. They'd done horrifying and evil deeds to the Israelites. This prophesy is talking about a judgement against the Babylonians. With the cruelty that Babylon brought against the Jews in captivity, so cruelty was going to come against Babylon and even against their little children because of what they had done. When God punished people, it was universal. It involved women and children too. Like in the flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Amalekites and Caananites etc. That doesn't mean God wasn't forgiving to individuals who were repentant. God is always merciful and just even in His punishments. Personally I don't question God any more and I trust Him fully.
"If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife [
a]you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ , you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him. But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death ." ( Dueteronomy 13 : 6-9)
Seems pretty terrorist-ic to me.
The whole chapter of
Deuteronomy 13 is talking about punishment of apostates. In those days before the New Covenant and before Jesus died on the cross for our sins the punishments were immediate. I won't go to deep into it but Israel were God's people surrounded by pagan nations. In those days idolatry was punishable by death and for anyone to entice another into idolatry that was immediate death and that included destroying the idolatrous cities too. God was trying to preserve the faithfulness and trust of His people. It did not work mostly and Israel was punished thoroughly for their idolatry over the centuries but because some did always stay with God, its one of the reasons we have Christianity today and many other reason we don't know. Like I said nothing God does is without reason. He knows everything and knows the beginning from the end. God does not like killing anyone but sometimes for the preservation of humanity, for the bigger picture and many other reasons we don't know or understand, He has to (
Ezekiel 18:32, 33:11).
Isaiah 55:9, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts."
Before this world fell into sin God never had to destroy anything He created. We have to be careful not to go down the rabbit hole and wrestle this subject to the point where we might fall out of faith. Its better to keep our trust and believe that God is a fair, just and loving God who judges and destroys where necessary whether we understand why or not and Satan is a liar who wants people to believe God is a terrorist and kills babies for the sake of it.
If Christians only read there Bible, well maybe they'd stop eating pork at least, seeing theres 32 Biblical verses forbidding its consumption.
We do read and study the Bible and want to have a deep relationship, and be obedient and submissive to God, in different degrees of course. I do have a forum (
here) talking about the diet of the Bible and yes Christians should not eat pork and all unclean animals, birds, fish and insects. We should not even be drinking alcohol and other substances that impair our minds, damage our mental and physical health.