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Originally Posted by NotforSale
Is it murder to put a sword through the belly of a child? How about an elderly person who is helpless? What about a woman who is pregnant?
Your explanation is full of holes (maybes, what ifs, might be's), not to mention a human being has always been a human being.
Today, there are hostile Nations on Earth that declare the Christian Faith a False Doctrine. The Country of Iran has leadership that considers Israel an all out threat to Planet Earth and would like to blow them off the map. Would a mass genocide of this Nation be accepted today? The Philistines still live next door to the Jews. Why not Nuke them?
Why shouldn't we have exterminated the Germans? Allow the Jews to go into this Country that attempted to genocide them.
You make it sound like it was different back then. The World has always been hostile. The theories you present are what all do to protect a false idea. It's "Out of Sight, Out of Mind". It's not today, so it's easy to explain it away with notions that are not only inhumane, but downright evil.
Bring genocide into your backyard, then judge. Look into the faces of these dead people, or watch the slaughter take place, then give us your theory.
Also, the full message to Mankind was not finished in Word when Jesus came. The New Testament hadn't even been written yet.
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If God commands a nation to war, sparing none, through a prophet it isn't sin. God alone has the authority to command such a thing. However, rest easy. God isn't dealing with a "nation" today. God is dealing with a "church", a body of called out believers, scattered among all nations. God has now called us to partake in Christ's Messianich mission by preaching the Gospel... even if it should cause us our lives and we die as Christ died for us. Our mission is to bring Christ's peace to the peoples of all nations.
Context is key.
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