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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.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.

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."
tear your breasts."
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 (thoughy
not permanently).

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Misquoted and misunderstood.

Those in the Old Testament are not for the Christians, but to the Israelites in those days, during the days of their exodus from Egypt.
That's why you won't see any Christian(s) who understood the gospel killing anyone for being an unbeliever.

Some of the quoted were curses on the Israelites for turning away from the GOD of their fathers.


Now, to the New Testament:

Matthew 3:12 was misquoted in context. Here is the message there:
Matthew 3 (KJV)
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⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
⁸ Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
⁹ And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
¹⁰ And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
¹¹ I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
¹² Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.


Matthew 8 (KJV)
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[b]⁵ And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
⁶ And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
⁷ And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
⁸ The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
⁹ For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
¹⁰ When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
¹¹ And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
¹² But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
¹³ And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.[/b]


Matthew 10 (KJV)
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[b]¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
¹⁷ But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
¹⁸ And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
²⁰ For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
²¹ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
²² And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
²³ But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
²⁴ The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
²⁵ It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
²⁶ Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.[/b]


Matthew 13 (KJV)
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²⁴ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
²⁵ But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
²⁶ But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
²⁷ So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
²⁸ He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
²⁹ But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.


Matthew 22 (KJV)
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[b]¹ And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
² The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
³ And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
⁴ Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
⁵ But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
⁶ And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
⁷ But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
⁸ Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
⁹ Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
¹⁰ So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
¹¹ And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
¹² And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
¹³ Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
¹⁴ For many are called, but few are chosen.[/b]


Matthew 24 (KJV)
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[b]⁴² Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
⁴³ But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
⁴⁴ Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
⁴⁵ Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
⁴⁷ Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
⁴⁸ But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
⁴⁹ And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
⁵⁰ The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
⁵¹ And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.[/b]


Matthew 25 (KJV)
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[b]¹⁴ For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
¹⁵ And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
¹⁶ Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
¹⁷ And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
¹⁸ But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
¹⁹ After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
²⁰ And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
²¹ His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
²² He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
²³ His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
²⁴ Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
²⁵ And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
²⁶ His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
²⁷ Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
²⁸ Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
²⁹ For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
³⁰ And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.[/b]


Luke 13 (KJV)
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[b]²² And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
²³ Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
²⁴ Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
²⁵ When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
²⁶ Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
²⁷ But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
²⁸ There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
²⁹ And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
³⁰ And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.[/b]


John 5 (KJV)
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²² For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
²³ That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
²⁴ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
²⁵ Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.


Matthew 10 (KJV)
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³⁴ Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
³⁵ For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
³⁶ And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
³⁷ He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
³⁸ And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
³⁹ He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
⁴⁰ He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.


Matthew 11 (KJV)
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²⁰ Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
²¹ Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
²² But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
²³ And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
²⁴ But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.


Acts 13 (KJV)
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[b]⁵ And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
⁶ And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:
⁷ Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
⁸ But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
⁹ Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
¹⁰ And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
¹¹ And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.[/b]

Westerhoffe:
Misquoted and misunderstood.

Those in the Old Testament are not for the Christians, but to the Israelites in those days, during the days of their exodus from Egypt.
That's why you won't see any Christian(s) who understood the gospel killing anyone for being an unbeliever.

Some of the quoted were curses on the Israelites for turning away from the GOD of their fathers.


Now, to the New Testament:

Matthew 3:12 was misquoted in context. Here is the message there:
Matthew 3 (KJV)
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⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
⁸ Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
⁹ And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
¹⁰ And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
¹¹ I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
¹² Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.


[b]Matthew 8 (KJV)
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⁵ And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
⁶ And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
⁷ And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
⁸ The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
⁹ For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
¹⁰ When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
¹¹ And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
¹² But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
¹³ And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.[/b]


[b]Matthew 10 (KJV)
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¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
¹⁷ But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
¹⁸ And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
²⁰ For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
²¹ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
²² And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
²³ But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
²⁴ The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
²⁵ It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
²⁶ Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.[/b]


Matthew 13 (KJV)
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²⁴ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
²⁵ But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
²⁶ But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
²⁷ So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
²⁸ He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
²⁹ But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.


[b]Matthew 22 (KJV)
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¹ And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
² The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
³ And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
⁴ Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
⁵ But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
⁶ And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
⁷ But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
⁸ Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
⁹ Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
¹⁰ So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
¹¹ And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
¹² And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
¹³ Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
¹⁴ For many are called, but few are chosen.[/b]


[b]Matthew 24 (KJV)
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⁴² Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
⁴³ But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
⁴⁴ Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
⁴⁵ Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
⁴⁷ Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
⁴⁸ But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
⁴⁹ And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
⁵⁰ The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
⁵¹ And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.[/b]


[b]bMatthew 25 (KJV)
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¹⁴ For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
¹⁵ And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
¹⁶ Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
¹⁷ And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
¹⁸ But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
¹⁹ After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
²⁰ And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
²¹ His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
²² He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
²³ His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
²⁴ Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
²⁵ And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
²⁶ His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
²⁷ Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
²⁸ Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
²⁹ For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
³⁰ And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.[/b]


[b]Luke 13 (KJV)
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
²² And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
²³ Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
²⁴ Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
²⁵ When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
²⁶ Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
²⁷ But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
²⁸ There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
²⁹ And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
³⁰ And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.[/b]


John 5 (KJV)
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²² For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
²³ That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
²⁴ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
²⁵ Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.


Matthew 10 (KJV)
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
³⁴ Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
³⁵ For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
³⁶ And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
³⁷ He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
³⁸ And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
³⁹ He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
⁴⁰ He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.


Matthew 11 (KJV)
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
²⁰ Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
²¹ Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
²² But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
²³ And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
²⁴ But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.


[b]Acts 13 (KJV)
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
⁵ And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
⁶ And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:
⁷ Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
⁸ But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
⁹ Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
¹⁰ And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
¹¹ And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.[/b]

You be robot? You don't know you have spoilt this thread. Please delete 90% of what you wrote.

akakurukukaku:


You be robot? You don't know you have spoilt this thread. Please delete 90% of what you wrote.

I can be whatever I have to be to make the truth known.
Don't underestimate that aspect of me.

The Christian hypocrites will pretend to be blind the comments will not be more than ten people.

Truthday:
warning:graphic content

EX 17:13 With the Lord's approval, Joshua mows
down Amalek and his people.

https://fb.watch/laIVsiIx_G/?mibextid=Nif5oz.....

Ibrahimmrfish:
The Christian hypocrites will pretend to be blind the comments will not be more than ten people.

Despite Christians are more than Muslims in the world. How many people has the followers of Jesus who read those verses daily killed compare to numbers of people followers of Mohammed had killed and still killing at the shout of "Alhah Akbar... Gbhoa... bomb!? How many christian terrorists are in the world today that are inspired by those Biblical verses you quoted compare to how many Muslim terrorists are in the world today that are inspired by controversial verses in Quran?

You yourself know many Muslim terrorists don't see you as a good Muslim than them because they are inspired by controversial Quranic verses that made them thing they are killing for Mohammed. However, no Christian group in the world uses those your verses to kill for Jesus. It means you are ignorant, brainless and don't understand what you are quoting. You are only looking for partners in crime to support your religion killings

I am not a Christian or Muslim .
I know both religions are scams
I have studied the Bible and Qur'an extensively
I am Yoruba from a Muslim mixed with Christian family

Whenever you hear that expression non Believer know it is from a Northern Muslim with the mindset that they are at war with Christians. That is their orientation.and indoctrination

Now to the subject matter

The so called old Testament has nothing to do with believers or nonbelievers.
Those that the Hebrew people killed or claim Jehovah ordered killed were not killed for unbelief.
The Hebrew people people have no history of trying to convert anyone to their beliefs. In fact you cannot if you want to. It is not allowed. You cannot BECOME a Jew.

Whatever the OP is trying to do he is not educated enough,not informed enough about.

Jews are not Christians and are actually closer in their ideology to Muslims than they are to Christians. But there is no killing in the Hebrew text that is about belief. Ultimately it is about killing enemies of Hebrews,trying to grab land or take bounty.

The Hebrew hold the view that they are chosen by God above the rest of mankind so it has nothing to do with belief and nothing to do with Christianity
Ultimately these are all Middle East religions and in the case of Christianity a European hybrid. All of them used to enslave gullible Africans who are not able to use their brains

sreamsense:




Despite Christians are more than Muslims in the world. How many people has the followers of Jesus who read those verses daily killed compare to numbers of people followers of Mohammed had killed and still killing at the shout of "Alhah Akbar... Gbhoa... bomb!? How many christian terrorists are in the world today that are inspired by those Biblical verses you quoted compare to how many Muslim terrorists are in the world today that are inspired by controversial verses in Quran?

You yourself know many Muslim terrorists don't see you as a good Muslim than them because they are inspired by controversial Quranic verses that made them thing they are killing for Mohammed. However, no Christian group in the world uses those your verses to kill for Jesus. It means you are ignorant, brainless and don't understand what you are quoting. You are only looking for partners in crime to support your religion killings

Maybe the over million Iraqis that were killed by U.S never happened.

This was the life of the old testament. With the coming of christ, he brought peace to the world. He preached love which he referred to as the greatest gift.

Westerhoffe:
Misquoted and misunderstood.

No.

You can not use the New Testament to defend the old testament.


I have always argued that there is no need for Christians to quote the Jewish Torah aka Old Testament as the only reason it was yoked to the NT was to convince Jews that Christ was the Messiah.

But since the Jew remains condemned to reject Christ owing to their self accepted sin of deicide , it is high time Christians divorce themselves from the hate filled supremacist old testament.

How come it is another set of people who practice all these and not Christians?

Unfortunately for the poster, Israelis who those scripts were addressed to have no death penalty in their country.

Death penalty doesnt exist in Israel even if you kill the Prime Minister or President. You only get life sentence where you can still be sponsored to PhD in prisons if you so wish.

Chinjo2:
This was the life of the old testament. With the coming of christ, he brought peace to the world. He preached love which he referred to as the greatest gift.

Jesus said he has not come to change laws of the old. In the bible

Truthday:
warning:graphic content

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.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.

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."
tear your breasts."
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 (thoughy
not permanently).

https://fb.watch/laIVsiIx_G/?mibextid=Nif5oz

How many unbelievers did jesus and his apostles killed?

All old testament stuff

Jesus Christ has overriden them.

akakurukukaku:


You be robot? You don't know you have spoilt this thread. Please delete 90% of what you wrote.

Why should he abridge it...

When it comes to debunking falsehood, no amount of thoroughness is too much...

This slavery

Ibrahimmrfish:

Maybe the over million Iraqis that were killed by U.S never happened.

Someone was talking about bring educated enough in a comment above...

You people need a lot education indeed...

The state and the church are mutually exclusive in Christianity unlike in Islam where the spiritual and political leadership natural are interwoven..

Apart from possibly Jimmy Carter, no other American president since his reign can be called a practising Christian in the true sense of the phrase...

George Bush's led Gulf War cannot be termed a Christianity-led campaign.

Apart from the Vatican, which is even an Italian enclave, there is no Christian theocratic state unlike in Islam where dozens of countries have proclaimed themselves Islamic republics and kingdoms.

If you have a functional knowledge of Christianity, i have little doubt that you will have no problems becoming a Christian.

Truthday:


Jesus said he has not come to change laws of the old. In the bible

It is one thing to engage to learn and another to just be there merely for trolling...

The laws Jesus was talking about are summarized In The Ten Commandments (See Exodus 20).

Jesus explained further that these laws are subsumed under two basic laws: Love your God with all your heart and might; and, Love your neighbour as you love yourself (See Matthew 22 vv 36 40)

The above two laws are the bedrock of the Christian faith.

They are what Jesus and his followers taught and exemplified in the 27 books of the New Testament.

Christianity aspires to follow the footsteps of Jesus.

maestroferddi:
Someone was talking about bring educated enough in a comment above...

You people need a lot education indeed...

The state and the church are mutually exclusive in Christianity unlike in Islam where the spiritual and political leadership natural are interwoven..

Apart from possibly Jimmy Carter, no other American president since his reign can be called a practising Christian in the true sense of the phrase...

George Bush's led Gulf War cannot be termed a Christianity-led campaign.

Apart from the Vatican, which is even an Italian enclave, there is no Christian theocratic state unlike in Islam where dozens of countries have proclaimed themselves Islamic republics and kingdoms.

If you have a functional knowledge of Christianity, i have little doubt that you will have no problems becoming a Christian.

Are you sure about that cause Bush clearly stated on a speech that he was on a crusade. And why on earth do you think U.S is giving Isreal billions of dollars each year? Clearly you are the one that is not educated enough.

Ibrahimmrfish:

Maybe the over million Iraqis that were killed by U.S never happened.

You yourself should be ashamed of your rubbish if you shake your brain a bit to function better. Did US tell you they are killing for Jesus? Did they tell you it was those verses that inspired them like Bokoharam, ISWAP and many other Muslim terrorists use to quote and read Qurans before they kill? Is US among listed terrorists groups in the world? You are only quoting Biblical refrences you don't understand ignorantly. If those verses you quoted from Bible are for killing, even Mohammed would have been killed as teenager by Christian because Bible and Christianity had been in existence before Mohammed began to copy and paste Bible and other holy books and call it Quran from heaven.

Ibrahimmrfish:

Are you sure about that cause Bush clearly stated on a speech that he was on a crusade. And why on earth do you think U.S is giving Isreal billions of dollars each year? Clearly you are the one that is not educated enough.

My brother I didn't mean to denigrate you but the time has come for you to do some research on your own and not rely on the falsehood you are fed routinely to forestall any attempt to get liberated.

George Bush could not have used the word Crusade in prosecuting a foreign which was even opppsed by many Americans including key Christian leaders.

Israel is not a Christian nation so make me understand better please...

You really need to study history to understand that the Jewish nationhood predated Islam by several centuries.

US sided with Iraq during the Iraq-Iranian War so why are you not talking about that?

Today the US is Saudi Arabia's most important trading partner so make us see better...

In any case, Jesus loves you...

maestroferddi:
My brother I didn't mean to denigrate you but the time has come for you to do some research on your own and not rely on the falsehood you are fed routinely to forestall any attempt to get liberated.

George Bush could not have used the word Crusade in prosecuting a foreign which was even opppsed by many Americans including key Christian leaders.

Israel is not a Christian nation so make me understand better please...

You really need to study history to understand that the Jewish nationhood predated Islam by several centuries.

US sided with Iraq during the Iraq-Iranian War so why are you not talking about that?

Today the US is Saudi Arabia's most important trading partner so make us see better...

In any case, Jesus loves you...

a speech about the “War on Terror,” former American President George W. Bush referred to the “crusades” to describe his war against terrorism, recalling the wars waged by the Christian West against Arabs and Muslims in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries.

The connotation of “crusade” in English is still fairly positive in spite of recent Western scholarly reassessments of these wars, while in the East the term still has strong negative associations.

Moreover, Bush’s “axis of evil” speech strengthened this view since two-thirds of the axis (Iran and Iraq) he condemned were Muslim, and the organizations he classified as “terrorist” during the speech were all Muslim. Bush’s legacy of failure in Iraq, including the loss of the “common will” of Americans, paved the way to a new spirit and direction for US foreign policy, buoyed by the first African-American presidency in the US. The spirit of “change” born in post Bush-era America found its way to the Arab world, which has since then seen more calls for democracy and “change” domestically and internationally.

On the other side, in many of his speeches, Bashar al-Assad asserts that “the issue is terrorism. We are facing a real war waged from the outside.” Al-Assad’s regime insists on attributing the armed opposition in Syria to terrorist groups, which they claim come from the US, Turkey and Gulf nations. Terrorism in Bashar and Bush’s speeches is used to justify violence against civilians and to deceive the public through skewed use of language.

In both cases, citizen journalists succeed in uncovering state terrorism. In Iraq, we all remember the transformative role of Citizen Media and web video in the coverage of the war in Iraq. In April 2004, photos of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were broadcast, causing revulsion and anger throughout the world. The Bush administration had claimed the invasion of Iraq was to liberate Iraqis from tyranny, but the photos of torture and abuse suggested America was not living up to its espoused principles.

Nowadays Syria is attempting to get free and rid of the current regime by connecting citizen journalists who are also activists on the ground in Syria. In addition, they are not only documenting and trying to connect with as many activists as possible; they’re creating and providing possible solutions, specifically pushing for a no fly zone, along with other solutions to resolve this terrible conflict and to ultimately bring the senseless killing to an end as quickly as possible.

Armed conflict in the country is only escalating, and the opposition’s new tactics could be seen as terrorist in their nature but never so when placed in the appropriate context of guerrilla warfare. The nature of the conflicts in Syria, just like the one in Iraq after the American invasion, made the line between opposition and terrorist hard to draw, especially for Westerners, demarcating little more than differences in the ultimate goal for Syrian regime change. The perceptions of the West — and its silence over the bloodshed — in the dogmas of various opposing forces in Syria today could prove to be a major point of contention that will bear sour fruit in the months and years to come, whether or not Bashar al-Assad successfully asserts his authority in the short term.

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maestroferddi:
My brother I didn't mean to denigrate you but the time has come for you to do some research on your own and not rely on the falsehood you are fed routinely to forestall any attempt to get liberated.

George Bush could not have used the word Crusade in prosecuting a foreign which was even opppsed by many Americans including key Christian leaders.

Israel is not a Christian nation so make me understand better please...

You really need to study history to understand that the Jewish nationhood predated Islam by several centuries.

US sided with Iraq during the Iraq-Iranian War so why are you not talking about that?

Today the US is Saudi Arabia's most important trading partner so make us see better...

In any case, Jesus loves you...

Don't mistake me with an average southern youth,i 100% know that Isreal is not a Christian state,what i am saying is U.S supporting Isreal is base on religious affiliation,most conservatives in U.S believe that the world will only end if all Jews go back to Israel,that is why every politicians in U.S have to be loyal to Israel in order to get the conservative votes.
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The survey of 10,441 US adults found that two-thirds of Americans express at least a somewhat favorable view of the Israeli people. Americans under 30 are more supportive of Palestinians.
A view of the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem’s Old City, behind an Israeli flag, seen from the Mount of Olives on Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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(RNS) — Earlier this week, 12 Republican senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, asking to rescind the $1 million grants the State Department gives to “anti-Israel NGOs.”

The Republican senators’ staunch support for Israel is not surprising, according to a new Pew Research survey of U.S. attitudes toward Israel and Palestine. Republicans and those who lean toward the Republican Party express far more positive views of the Israeli people and its government than do Democrats — 78% of Republicans view Israeli people positively compared with 60% of Democrats.

But white evangelicals, most of whom are proud Republicans, have the strongest views of Israelis. A whopping 86% of white evangelicals said they felt warmly toward Israelis — more than any other Christian group. By comparison, only 58% of Black Protestants felt warmly toward Israelis.


Overall, the survey of 10,441 U.S. adults, taken in March, found that two-thirds of Americans express at least a somewhat favorable view of the Israeli people. But it also found a modest warming to Palestinians, among younger Americans, and a general lack of familiarity and support for the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement, which aims to press Israel to change its policies toward the Palestinians.

As with so many other political issues (abortion, immigration, race, guns), white evangelicals stand out from other religious groups in their views. When it comes to Israel, those views appear firmly rooted in their faith.

The survey found that 70% of white evangelicals believe God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people. By comparison, only 32% of U.S. Jews felt God gave Israel to the Jewish people, according to a 2020 Pew survey, which asked a similar (but not identical) question.

A road sign leading to the U.S. Embassy is seen ahead the official opening in Jerusalem, on May 13, 2018. Monday's opening of the U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem, cheered by Israelis as a historic validation, is seen by Palestinians as an in-your-face affirmation of pro-Israel bias by President Trump and a new blow to frail statehood dreams. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A road sign leading to the new U.S. Embassy is seen ahead the official opening in Jerusalem, on May 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

“It’s important to their theological narrative,” said Arielle Levites, research assistant professor at George Washington University, referring to white evangelicals. “It’s important to their own sense of the arc of history.”

Many evangelicals view the creation of Israel in 1948 as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy that would usher in Jesus’ return, although the survey did not ask about this.


It’s perhaps not surprising that evangelicals scored lowest in their estimation of Palestinians (37%), even as some Palestinians are fellow Christians (the majority are Muslim).

White evangelicals are also the religious group most likely to express a very or somewhat favorable view of the Israeli government (68%), compared with Catholics (50%), white Protestants who are not evangelical (51%), Black Protestants (43%) and religiously unaffiliated people (31%). The survey did not have sufficient respondents from Jewish, Muslim or other faith traditions to report on their responses.

The survey, the second of its kind since 2019, also found a growing generational divide, with younger Americans feeling much warmer toward Palestinians. Americans age 30 and younger view Palestinians slightly more favorably than Israelis (61% vs. 56%). Overall 67% of Americans expressed favorable views of Israelis and 52% expressed favorable views of Palestinians.

"Wide partisan and age gaps in views of Israeli and Palestinian people" Graphic courtesy Pew Research Center
“Wide partisan and age gaps in views of Israeli and Palestinian people” Graphic courtesy of Pew Research Center

That generational change in U.S. attitudes toward Israel was reflected in another survey, commissioned by University of North Carolina at Pembroke researchers and carried out by Barna Group. That 2021 survey found younger evangelicals are much less supportive of Israel than older evangelicals. Support for Israel among young evangelicals plunged from 75% to 34% between 2018 and 2021.

“Clearly there’s more favorable views of Palestinians among younger people,” said Ariela Keysar, associate research professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. “I see it as a kind of generational memory. Older people see Israel pre-1948, before Israel was established as a democracy surrounded by hostile Arab countries. Younger people are shaped by current events. Many encounter anti-Israel views on campus. They encounter protests. Older people have not been exposed to that.”


Perhaps most surprising in the survey, 84% of Americans said they have heard “not much” or “nothing at all” about the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement.

The BDS movement, launched by Palestinian groups in 2005, states that “Israel is occupying and colonizing Palestinian land, discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel and denying Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes.”

Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, young and old, and of various Christian persuasions had relatively uniform views on BDS — that is, they professed ignorance.

“BDS gets a lot of heat among a very small percentage of people,” said Ari Y. Kelman, associate professor of education and Jewish studies at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. “It’s not galvanizing people as an organizational strategy, like divestment from South Africa managed to do for a much broader swath of the population.”

Overall, 5% of Americans say they support the BDS movement against Israel.

Asked about possible outcomes for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the survey found that 35% of Americans favored a two-state solution, in which the land would be split between Israelis and Palestinians, and 27% favored a one-state solution. More than a third — 37% — said they weren’t sure what the solution to the conflict should be.

The margin of error for the full survey of 10,441 respondents was plus or minus 1.5 percentage points.


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Gajagojo:
I am not a Christian or Muslim .
I know both religions are scams
I have studied the Bible and Qur'an extensively
I am Yoruba from a Muslim mixed with Christian family

Whenever you hear that expression non Believer know it is from a Northern Muslim with the mindset that they are at war with Christians. That is their orientation.and indoctrination

Now to the subject matter

The so called old Testament has nothing to do with believers or nonbelievers.
Those that the Hebrew people killed or claim Jehovah ordered killed were not killed for unbelief.
The Hebrew people people have no history of trying to convert anyone to their beliefs. In fact you cannot if you want to. It is not allowed. You cannot BECOME a Jew.

Whatever the OP is trying to do he is not educated enough,not informed enough about.

Jews are not Christians and are actually closer in their ideology to Muslims than they are to Christians. But there is no killing in the Hebrew text that is about belief. Ultimately it is about killing enemies of Hebrews,trying to grab land or take bounty.

The Hebrew hold the view that they are chosen by God above the rest of mankind so it has nothing to do with belief and nothing to do with Christianity
Ultimately these are all Middle East religions and in the case of Christianity a European hybrid. All of them used to enslave gullible Africans who are not able to use their brains

Emeka, for how long do you wanna keep impersonating Yoruba?

sreamsense:

You yourself should be ashamed of your rubbish if you shake your brain a bit to function better. Did US tell you they are killing for Jesus? Did they tell you it was those verses that inspired them like Bokoharam, ISWAP and many other Muslim terrorists use to quote and read Qurans before they kill? Is US among listed terrorists groups in the world? You are only quoting Biblical refrences you don't understand ignorantly. If those verses you quoted from Bible are for killing, even Mohammed would have been killed as teenager by Christian because Bible and Christianity had been in existence before Mohammed began to copy and paste Bible and other holy books and call it Quran from heaven.

YOU ARE VERY STUPID, YOU CRIMINAL. GO AND TELL THAT CRAP TO THE MILLIONS OF IRAQIS MURDERED BY CHRISTIAN TROOPS FROM AMERICA AND UK.

YOU CHRISTIANS ARE THE BIGGEST MASS MURDERERS ON EARTH.

KING LEOPOLD, A BELGIAN CHRISTIAN, SLAUGHTERED 20 MILLION AFRICANS IN THE CONGO, AND CHRISTIAN BRITISH TROOPS INVADED AND BURNT DOWN BENIN CITY, DESTROYED THE PALACE AND LOOTED ITS TREASURES.

HITLER WAS A CHRISTIAN, AND CHRISTIAN PRIESTS HAILED AND SALUTED HIM AS HE LED 6 MILLION PEOPLE INTO THE GAS CHAMBERS.

I COULD GO ON ALL DAY ON THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY YOU CHRISTIANS.

SCUM OF THE EARTH.

@ibrahimmrfish

I still insist you need to get yourself up to speed.

You people always point to the Crusades as the height of Christian crimes of the past but Muhammad spread Islam by bloodletting and conquest.

The Crusades we're was wages to reclaim Christian lands seized by invading Muslim armies so what is the matter there.

You forcefully took Christian land by warfare and you reckon that the owners shouldn't have tried to repossess their territories?

Tell me something else please...

Ibrahimmrfish:

a speech about the “War on Terror,” former American President George W. Bush referred to the “crusades” to describe his war against terrorism, recalling the wars waged by the Christian West against Arabs and Muslims in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries.

The connotation of “crusade” in English is still fairly positive in spite of recent Western scholarly reassessments of these wars, while in the East the term still has strong negative associations.

Moreover, Bush’s “axis of evil” speech strengthened this view since two-thirds of the axis (Iran and Iraq) he condemned were Muslim, and the organizations he classified as “terrorist” during the speech were all Muslim. Bush’s legacy of failure in Iraq, including the loss of the “common will” of Americans, paved the way to a new spirit and direction for US foreign policy, buoyed by the first African-American presidency in the US. The spirit of “change” born in post Bush-era America found its way to the Arab world, which has since then seen more calls for democracy and “change” domestically and internationally.

On the other side, in many of his speeches, Bashar al-Assad asserts that “the issue is terrorism. We are facing a real war waged from the outside.” Al-Assad’s regime insists on attributing the armed opposition in Syria to terrorist groups, which they claim come from the US, Turkey and Gulf nations. Terrorism in Bashar and Bush’s speeches is used to justify violence against civilians and to deceive the public through skewed use of language.

In both cases, citizen journalists succeed in uncovering state terrorism. In Iraq, we all remember the transformative role of Citizen Media and web video in the coverage of the war in Iraq. In April 2004, photos of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were broadcast, causing revulsion and anger throughout the world. The Bush administration had claimed the invasion of Iraq was to liberate Iraqis from tyranny, but the photos of torture and abuse suggested America was not living up to its espoused principles.

Nowadays Syria is attempting to get free and rid of the current regime by connecting citizen journalists who are also activists on the ground in Syria. In addition, they are not only documenting and trying to connect with as many activists as possible; they’re creating and providing possible solutions, specifically pushing for a no fly zone, along with other solutions to resolve this terrible conflict and to ultimately bring the senseless killing to an end as quickly as possible.

Armed conflict in the country is only escalating, and the opposition’s new tactics could be seen as terrorist in their nature but never so when placed in the appropriate context of guerrilla warfare. The nature of the conflicts in Syria, just like the one in Iraq after the American invasion, made the line between opposition and terrorist hard to draw, especially for Westerners, demarcating little more than differences in the ultimate goal for Syrian regime change. The perceptions of the West — and its silence over the bloodshed — in the dogmas of various opposing forces in Syria today could prove to be a major point of contention that will bear sour fruit in the months and years to come, whether or not Bashar al-Assad successfully asserts his authority in the short term.

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So what has all this got to do with the topic of debate.
U simply analysing a complex geopolitical situation and international relation.
U even admit in your writing that some Muslims countries sided with western nations to attack a Muslim country.
So what has got to do with Muslim v Christians.
Are u ok upstairs?

What is this one intending to say. Show us the quaran that support pedophile.
That animal called Muhammad has been sleeping with little children.

Napata77:


YOU ARE VERY STUPID, YOU CRIMINAL. GO AND TELL THAT CRAP TO THE MILLIONS OF IRAQIS MURDERED BY CHRISTIAN TROOPS FROM AMERICA AND UK.

YOU CHRISTIANS ARE THE BIGGEST MASS MURDERERS ON EARTH.

KING LEOPOLD, A BELGIAN CHRISTIAN, SLAUGHTERED 20 MILLION AFRICANS IN THE CONGO, AND CHRISTIAN BRITISH TROOPS INVADED AND BURNT DOWN BENIN CITY, DESTROYED THE PALACE AND LOOTED ITS TREASURES.

HITLER WAS A CHRISTIAN, AND CHRISTIAN PRIESTS HAILED AND SALUTED HIM AS HE LED 6 MILLION PEOPLE INTO THE GAS CHAMBERS.

I COULD GO ON ALL DAY ON THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY YOU CHRISTIANS.

SCUM OF THE EARTH.

You are only looking for partners in crime to justify your Islamic terrorist killings. Muslim terrorists kill by reciting Quranic citations and shout Alah Akbar... then... Gboa...! Bomb blast. Did those people you cited killed by reciting Biblical refrences or called name of Jesus before they killed? Tell us where Hitler or USA shouted the name of Jesus or quoted Bible before they killed? Did they tell you they were sent by Jesus because Islamic terrorists told the world they are obeying Mohammed injustions and commandments and will even be rewarded with virgins? Can you Google the world list of terrorist organization and show me where USA and those you mentioned are listed as Christian terrorists fighting for Jesus? If you can't find such, then your point are baseless because it woundn't take 2minutes to find that of Islamic terrorists, so what is the point you are trying to cover up, their attrocities is in the public space for world to see.

However, entire list is full and dominated by Muslim terrorists who entered into terrorism because they interpreted (rightly or wrongly) controversial Quranic verses to support their killings based on believe that their reward of virgins are waiting for them. Did you see those one you quoted citing anywhere from word of Jesus to support their killings? Your ignorance is of grade A! You need brain examination, I don't see any reason why shouldn't create time to visit Yaba left before it gets worse

I used to think "a thing" (not a person) with a mixture of cow and goat brains can browse the internet, but after seeing this post, I was right!

Truthday:
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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.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.

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."
tear your breasts."
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 (thoughy
not permanently).

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Westerhoffe:


I can be whatever I have to be to make the truth known.
Don't underestimate that aspect of me.

When it comes to social media you have to learn to be concise. No matter how informative or important your write up may be, if it is too long many people will not read it. They will just glance at it and move on. I loved the initial writeup by the OP, but I had to leave the thread because of what you wrote was too long.

Anyway I wish you the best