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Spirituality Vs Spiritualism. What Are They? by Anas09: 3:18pm On May 30, 2015
The supernatural is versatile. One can be missguided if care is not taken. In our world today every spiritual organization is claiming to be the right way to the Almighty. So many practices are being carried out in the name of 'god'. The question of weather Spiritualism and Spirituality are one and the same concept or are different?, is here. Let's talk.
Re: Spirituality Vs Spiritualism. What Are They? by mujahid1339(m): 4:41pm On May 30, 2015
spirituality is a form of spiritualism,while spiritualism is a form of spirituality.for more info check out these wonderful verses of the lord;
EX 17:13 With the Lord's approval, Joshua
mows
down Amalek and his people.
EX 21:20-21 With the Lord's approval, a slave
may be beaten to death with no punishment for
the perpetrator as long as the slave doesn't
die
too quickly.
EX 32:27 "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
neighbor.
EX 32:27-29 With the Lord's approval, the
Israelites slay 3000 men.
LE 26:7-8 The Lord promises the Israelites
that, if
they are obedient, their enemies will "fall
before
your sword."
LE 26:22 "I will also send wild beasts among
you,
which shall rob you of your children."
LE 26:29 , DT 28:53 , JE 19:9 , EZ 5:8-10 As a
punishment, the Lord will cause people to eat
the
flesh of their own sons and daughters and
fathers
and friends.
LE 27:29 Human sacrifice is condoned. (Note:
An
example is given in JG 11:30-39 )
NU 11:33 The Lord smites the people with a
great
plague.
NU 12:1-10 God makes Miriam a leper for
seven
days because she and Aaron had spoken
against
Moses.
NU 15:32-36 A Sabbath breaker (who had
gathered sticks for a fire) is stoned to death at
the Lord's command.
NU 16:27-33 The Lord causes the earth to
open
and swallow up the men and their households
(including wives and children) because the
men
had been rebellious.
NU 16:35 A fire from the Lord consumes 250
men.
NU 16:49 A plague from the Lord kills 14,700
people.
NU 21:3 The Israelites utterly destroy the
Canaanites.
NU 21:6 Fiery serpents, sent by the Lord, kill
many Israelites.
NU 21:35 With the Lord's approval, the
Israelites
slay Og "... and his sons and all his people,
until
there was not one survivor left ...."
NU 25:4 (KJV) "And the Lord said unto Moses,
take all the heads of the people, and hang
them
up before the Lord against the sun ...."
NU 25:8 "He went after the man of Israel into
the
tent, and thrust both of them through, the man
of
Israel, and the woman through her belly."
NU 25:9 24,000 people die in a plague from
the
Lord.
NU 31:9 The Israelites capture Midianite
women
and children.
NU 31:17-18 Moses, following the Lord's
command, orders the Israelites to kill all the
Midianite male children and "... every woman
who
has known man ...." (Note: How would it be
determined which women had known men?
One
can only speculate.)
NU 31:31-40 32,000 virgins are taken by the
Israelites as booty. Thirty-two are set aside
(to
be sacrificed?) as a tribute for the Lord.
DT 2:33-34 The Israelites utterly destroy the
men,
women, and children of Sihon.
DT 3:6 The Israelites utterly destroy the men,
women, and children of Og.
DT 7:2 The Lord commands the Israelites to
"utterly destroy" and show "no mercy" to those
whom he gives them for defeat.
DT 20:13-14 "When the Lord delivers it into
your
hand, put to the sword all the males .... As for
the women, the children, the livestock and
everything else in the city, you may take these
as
plunder for yourselves."
DT 20:16 "In the cities of the nations the Lord
is
giving you as an inheritance, do not leave
alive
anything that breathes."
DT 21:10-13 With the Lord's approval, the
Israelites are allowed to take "beautiful
women"
from the enemy camp to be their captive
wives.
If, after sexual relations, the husband has "no
delight" in his wife, he can simply let her go.
DT 28:53 "You will eat the fruit of the womb,
the
flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your
God has given you."
JS 1:1-9 , 18 Joshua receives the Lord's
blessing
for all the bloody endeavors to follow.
JS 6:21-27 With the Lord's approval, Joshua
destroys the city of Jericho--men, women, and
children--with the edge of the sword.
JS 7:19-26 Achan, his children and his cattle
are
stoned to death because Achan had taken a
taboo thing.
JS 8:22-25 With the Lord's approval, Joshua
utterly smites the people of Ai, killing 12,000
men
and women, so that there were none who
escaped.
JS 10:10-27 With the help of the Lord, Joshua
utterly destroys the Gibeonites.
JS 10:28 With the Lord's approval, Joshua
utterly
destroys the people of Makkedah.
JS 10:30 With the Lord's approval, Joshua
utterly
destroys the Libnahites.
JS 10:32-33 With the Lord's approval, Joshua
utterly destroys the people of Lachish.
JS 10:34-35 With the Lord's approval, Joshua
utterly destroys the Eglonites.
JS 10:36-37 With the Lord's approval, Joshua
utterly destroys the Hebronites.
JS 10:38-39 With the Lord's approval, Joshua
utterly destroys the Debirites.
JS 10:40 (A summary statement.) "So Joshua
defeated the whole land ...; he left none
remaining, but destroyed all that breathed, as
the
Lord God of Israel commanded."
JS 11:6 The Lord orders horses to be
hamstrung.
(Exceedingly cruel.)
JS 11:8-15 "And the lord gave them into the
hand
of Israel, ...utterly destroying them; there was
none left that breathed ...."
JS 11:20 "For it was the Lord's doing to
harden
their hearts that they should come against
Israel
in battle, in order that they should be utterly
destroyed, and should receive no mercy but be
exterminated, as the Lord commanded
Moses."
JS 11:21-23 Joshua utterly destroys the
Anakim.
JG 1:4 With the Lord's support, Judah defeats
10,000 Canaanites at Bezek.
JG 1:6 With the Lord's approval, Judah
pursues
Adoni-bezek, catches him, and cuts off his
thumbs and big toes.
JG 1:8 With the Lord's approval, Judah smites
Jerusalem.
JG 1:17 With the Lord's approval, Judah and
Simeon utterly destroy the Canaanites who
inhabited Zephath.
JG 3:29 The Israelites kill about 10,000
Moabites.
JG 3:31 (A restatement.) Shamgar killed 600
Philistines with an oxgoad.
JG 4:21 Jael takes a tent stake and hammers
it
through the head of Sisera, fastening it to the
ground.
JG 7:19-25 The Gideons defeat the Midianites,
slay their princes, cut off their heads, and
bring
the heads back to Gideon.
JG 8:15-21 The Gideons slaughter the men of
Penuel.
JG 9:5 Abimalech murders his brothers.
JG 9:45 Abimalech and his men kill all the
people
in the city.
JG 9:53-54 "A woman dropped a stone on his
head and cracked his skull. Hurriedly he called
to
his armor-bearer, 'Draw your sword and kill
me,
so that they can't say a woman killed me.' So
his
servant ran him through, and he died."
JG 11:29-39 Jepthah sacrifices his beloved
daughter, his only child, according to a vow he
has made with the Lord.
JG 14:19 The Spirit of the Lord comes upon a
man and causes him to slay thirty men.
JG 15:15 Samson slays 1000 men with the
jawbone of an ass.
JG 16:21 The Philistines gouge out Samson's
eyes.
JG 16:27-30 Samson, with the help of the
Lord,
pulls down the pillars of the Philistine house
and
causes his own death and that of 3000 other
men
and women.
JG 18:27 The Danites slay the quiet and
unsuspecting people of Laish.
JG 19:22-29 A group of sexual depraved men
beat on the door of an old man's house
demanding that he turn over to them a male
house guest. Instead, the old man offers his
virgin daughter and his guest's concubine (or
wife): "Behold, here are my virgin daughter and
his concubine; let me bring them out now.
Ravish
them and do with them what seems good to
you;
but against this man do not do so vile a
thing."
The man's concubine is ravished and dies.
The
man then cuts her body into twelve pieces and
sends one piece to each of the twelve tribes of
Israel.
JG 20:43-48 The Israelites smite 25,000+
"men of
valor" from amongst the Benjamites, "men and
beasts and all that they found," and set their
towns on fire.
JG 21:10-12 "... Go and smite the inhabitants
of
Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword and;
also the women and little ones.... every male
and
every woman that has lain with a male you
shall
utterly destroy." They do so and find four
hundred
young virgins whom they bring back for their
own
use.
1SA 4:10 The Philistines slay 30,000 Israelite
foot
soldiers.
1SA 5:6-9 The Lord afflicts the Philistines
with
tumors in their "secret parts," presumably for
having stolen the Ark.
1SA 6:19 God kills seventy men (or so) for
looking into the Ark (at him?). (Note: The early
Israelites apparently thought the Ark to be
God's
abode.)
1SA 7:7-11 Samuel and his men smite the
Philistines.
1SA 11:11 With the Lord's blessing, Saul and
his
men cut down the Ammonites.
1SA 14:31 Jonathan and his men strike down
the
Philistines.
1SA 14:48 Saul smites the Amalekites.
1SA 15:3 , 7-8 "This is what the Lord says:
Now
go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all
that
they have; do not spare them, but kill both
man
and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep,
camel and ass ....' And Saul ... utterly
destroyed
all the people with the edge of the sword."
1SA 15:33 "Samuel hewed Agag in pieces
before
the Lord ...."
1SA 18:7 The women sing as they make
merry:
"Saul has slain his thousands and David his
ten
thousands."
1SA 27:8-11 "David left neither man nor
woman
alive ....". (Note: This implies that children and
infants were included in the slaughter.)
1SA 30:17 David smites the Amalekites.
2SA 2:23 Abner kills Asahel.
2SA 3:30 Joab and Abishai kill Abner.
2SA 4:7-8 Rechan and Baanah kill Ish-bosheth,
behead him, and take his head to David.
2SA 4:12 David has Rechan and Baanah killed,
their hands and feet cut off, and their bodies
hanged by the pool at Hebron.
2SA 5:25 "And David did as the Lord
commanded
him, and smote the Philistines ...."
2SA 6:2-23 Because she rebuked him for
having
exposed himself, Michal (David's wife) was
barren
throughout her life.
2SA 8:1-18 (A listing of some of David's
murderous conquests.)
2SA 8:4 David hamstrung all but a few of the
horses.
2SA 8:5 David slew 22,000 Syrians.
2SA 8:6 , 14 "The Lord gave victory to David
wherever he went."
2SA 8:13 David slew 18,000 Edomites in the
valley of salt and made the rest slaves.
2SA 10:18 David slew 47,000+ Syrians.
2SA 11:14-27 David has Uriah killed so that he
can marry Uriah's wife, Bathsheba.
2SA 12:1 , 19 The Lord strikes David's child
dead
for the sin that David has committed.
2SA 13:1-15 Amnon loves his sister Tamar,
rapes
her, then hates her.
2SA 13:28-29 Absalom has Amnon murdered.
2SA 18:6 -7 20,000 men are slaughtered at the
battle in the forest of Ephraim.
2SA 18:15 Joab's men murder Absalom.
2SA 20:10-12 Joab's men murder Amasa and
leave him "... wallowing in his own blood in
the
highway. And anyone who came by, seeing
him,
stopped."
2SA 24:15 The Lord sends a pestilence on
Israel
that kills 70,000 men.
1KI 2:24-25 Solomon has Adonijah murdered.
1KI 2:29-34 Solomon has Joab murdered.
1KI 2:46 Solomon has Shime-i murdered.
1KI 13:15-24 A man is killed by a lion for
eating
bread and drinking water in a place where the
Lord had previously told him not to. This is in
spite of the fact that the man had
subsequently
been lied to by a prophet who told the man
that
an angel of the Lord said that it would be
alright
to eat and drink there.
1KI 20:29-30 The Israelites smite 100,000
Syrian
soldiers in one day. A wall falls on 27,000
remaining Syrians.
2KI 1:10-12 Fire from heaven comes down and
consumes fifty men.
2KI 2:23-24 Forty-two children are mauled and
killed, presumably according to the will of God,
for having jeered at a man of God.
2KI 5:27 Elisha curses Gehazi and his
descendants forever with leprosy.
2KI 6:18-19 The Lord answers Elisha's prayer
and
strikes the Syrians with blindness. Elisha
tricks
the blind Syrians and leads them to Samaria.
2KI 6:29 "So we cooked my son and ate him.
The
next day I said to her, 'Give up your son so we
may eat him,' but she had hidden him."
2KI 9:24 Jehu tricks and murders Joram.
2KI 9:27 Jehu has Ahaziah killed.
2KI 9:30-37 Jehu has Jezebel killed. Her body
is
trampled by horses. Dogs eat her flesh so that
only her skull, feet, and the palms of her
hands
remain.
2KI 10:7 Jehu has Ahab's seventy sons
beheaded,
then sends the heads to their father.
2KI 10:14 Jehu has forty-two of Ahab's kin
killed.
2KI 10:17 "And when he came to Samaria, he
slew all that remained to Ahab in Samaria, till
he
had wiped them out, according to the word of
the
Lord ...."
2KI 10:19-27 Jehu uses trickery to massacre
the
Baal worshippers.
2KI 11:1 Athaliah destroys all the royal family.
2KI 14:5 , 7 Amaziah kills his servants and
then
10,000 Edomites.
2KI 15:3-5 Even though he did what was right
in
the eyes of the Lord, the Lord smites Azariah
with
leprosy for not having removed the "high
places."
2KI 15:16 Menahem ripped open all the women
who were pregnant.
2KI 19:35 An angel of the Lord kills 185,000
men.
1CH 20:3 (KJV) "And he brought out the
people
that were in it, and cut them with saws, and
with
harrows of iron, and with axes."
2CH 13:17 500,000 Israelites are slaughtered.
2CH 21:4 Jehoram slays all his brothers.
PS 137:9 Happy will be the man who dashes
your
little ones against the stones.
PS 144:1 God is praised as the one who trains
hands for war and fingers for battle.
IS 13:15 "Everyone who is captured will be
thrust
through; all who are caught will fall by the
sword. Their infants will be dashed to pieces
before their eyes; their ... wives will be
ravished."
IS 13:18 "Their bows also shall dash the young
men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on
the
fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare
children."
IS 14:21-22 "Prepare slaughter for his children
for
the iniquity of their fathers."
IS 49:26 The Lord will cause the oppressors of
the Israelite's to eat their own flesh and to
become drunk on their own blood as with
wine.
JE 16:4 "They shall die grievous deaths; they
shall not be lamented; neither shall they be
buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face
of the earth: and they shall be consumed by
the
sword, and by famine; and their carcasses
shall
be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the
beasts of the earth."
LA 4:9-10 "Those slain by the sword are better
off
than those who die of famine; racked with
hunger, they waste away for lack of food. ...
pitiful women have cooked their own children,
who became their food ..."
EZ 6:12-13 The Lord says: "... they will fall by
the
sword, famine and plague. He that is far away
will die of the plague, and he that is near will
fall
by the sword, and he that survives and is
spared
will die of famine. So will I spend my wrath
upon
them. And they will know I am the Lord, when
the
people lie slain among their idols around their
altars, on every high hill and on all the
mountaintops, under every spreading tree and
every leafy oak ...."
EZ 9:4-6 The Lord commands: "... slay old
men
outright, young men and maidens, little
children
and women ...."
EZ 20:26 In order that he might horrify them,
the
Lord allowed the Israelites to defile
themselves
through, amongst other things, the sacrifice of
their first-born children.
EZ 21:3-4 The Lord says that he will cut off
both
the righteous and the wicked that his sword
shall
go against all flesh.
EZ 23:25 , 47 God is going to slay the sons
and
daughters of those who were whores.
EZ 23:34 "You shall ... pluck out your hair, and
tear your bosoms."
HO 13:16 "They shall fall by the sword: their
infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their
women with child shall be ripped up."
MI 3:2-3 "... who pluck off their skin ..., and
their
flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the
flesh
of my people, and flay their skin from off
them;
and they break their bones, and chop them in
pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the
caldron."
MT 3:12 , 8:12 , 10:21 , 13:30 , 42, 22:13 ,
24:51 ,
25:30 , LK 13:28 , JN 5:24 Some will spend
eternity
burning in Hell. There will be weeping, wailing
and
gnashing of teeth.
MT 10:21 "... the brother shall deliver up his
brother to death, and the father his child, ...
children shall rise up against their parents,
and
cause them to be put to death."
MT 10:35-36 "For I have come to turn a man
against his father, a daughter against her
mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law a
man's enemies will be the members of his
own
family."
MT 11:21-24 Jesus curses [the inhabitants of]
three cities who were not sufficiently
impressed
with his great works.
AC 13:11 Paul purposefully blinds a man

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