The Truth Is…
The bible contains the worst incidents of genocide, crimes against humanity, infanticide, mass murder ad infitum. Anyone doing today what God did in the old testament would be found to be a psychopathic criminally insane person who would be shot on sight. These stories appear in the Bible! They cannot be ignored because they are merely unspeakable.
An Incomplete List of God’s Murders, Killings, Infanticides and Other Crimes Against Humanity
Our Thanks to Steve Wells, the creator of the Skeptics Annotated Bible and Dwindling in Unbelief and the author of the book “Drunk With Blood, God’s Killings In The Bible” for doing the research that produced this table – which is used without permission but with the hope that Steve will want it distributed to the widest audience possible.
DWB
Chapter |
Killing Event |
Scriptural
Reference |
Biblical
number |
Estimate |
1 |
The Flood of Noah |
Gen
7:23 |
– |
20,000,000 |
2 |
Abraham’s war to rescue Lot |
Gen
14:17-19 |
– |
1000 |
3 |
Sodom and Gomorrah |
Gen
19:24 |
– |
2,000 |
4 |
Lot’s wife |
Gen
19:26 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
Er for being wicked in the sight of the Lord |
Gen
38:7 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
Onan for spilling his seed |
Gen
38:10 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
God’s seven year, world-wide famine |
Gen
41:25-54 |
– |
70,000 |
8 |
The seventh plague of Egypt: Hail |
Ex
9:25 |
– |
300,000 |
9 |
God killed all first born Egyptian children |
Ex
12:29-30 |
– |
500,000 |
10 |
God drowned the Egyptian army |
Ex
14:8-26 |
600 |
5,000 |
11 |
Amalekites |
Ex
17:13 |
– |
1,000 |
12 |
Who is on the Lord’s side? |
Ex
32:27-28 |
3,000 |
3,000 |
13 |
God plagued the people because of Aaron’s calf |
Ex
32:35 |
– |
1,000 |
14 |
God burns Aaron’s sons to death |
Lev
10:1-3 |
2 |
2 |
15 |
A blasphemer is stoned to death |
Lev
24:10-23 |
1 |
1 |
16 |
God burned people to death for complaining |
Num
11:1 |
– |
100 |
17 |
God plagued the people for complaining about the
food |
Num
11:33 |
– |
10,000 |
18 |
Ten scouts are killed for their honest report |
Num
14:35-36 |
10 |
10 |
19 |
A man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day |
Num
15:32-35 |
1 |
1 |
20 |
The opposing party is buried alive (with their
families) |
Num
16:27 |
3 |
9 |
21 |
250 burned to death for burning incense |
Num
16:35 |
250 |
250 |
22 |
For complaining about God’s killings |
Num
16:49 |
14,700 |
14,700 |
23 |
The massacre of the Aradites |
Num
21:1-3 |
– |
3,000 |
24 |
God sent snakes to bite people for complaining |
Num
21:6 |
– |
100 |
25 |
Phinehas’ double murder: A killing to end God’s
killings |
Num
25:1-11 |
24,002 |
24,002 |
26 |
The Midianite massacre: Have you saved the women
alive? |
Num
31:1-35 |
6 |
200,000 |
27 |
God slowly kills the Israelite army |
Dt
2:14-16 |
– |
500,000 |
28 |
God the giant killer |
Dt
2:21-22 |
– |
5,000 |
29 |
God hardens King Sihon’s heart so he can kill him and
all his people |
Dt
2:33-34 |
1 |
5,000 |
30 |
Og and the men, women, and children of 60 cites |
Dt
3:3-6 |
1 |
60,000 |
31 |
The Jericho Massacre |
Jos
6:21 |
– |
1,000 |
32 |
Achan and his family are stoned and burned to death |
Jos
7:10-12, 24-26 |
1 |
5 |
33 |
The Ai massacre |
Jos
8:1-25 |
12,000 |
12,000 |
34 |
God stops the sun so Joshua can kill in the
daylight |
Jos
10:10-11 |
– |
5,000 |
35 |
Five kings killed and hung on trees |
Jos
10:26 |
5 |
10,000 |
36 |
Joshua utterly destroys all that breathes as God
commanded |
Jos
10:28-42 |
7 |
7,000 |
37 |
Jabin, Jobab, and all the people of 20 cities |
Jos
11:8-12 |
2 |
20,000 |
38 |
The Anakim: More giant killing |
Jos
11:20-21 |
– |
5,000 |
39 |
The Lord delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites |
Jg
1:4 |
10,000 |
10,000 |
40 |
The Jerusalem Massacre |
Jg
1:8 |
– |
1,000 |
41 |
Five massacres, a wedding, and some God-proof iron
chariots |
Jg
1:9-25 |
– |
5,000 |
42 |
The Lord delivered Chushanrishathaim |
Jg
3:7-10 |
1 |
1,000 |
43 |
Ehud delivers a message from God |
Jg
3:15-22 |
1 |
1 |
44 |
God delivers 10,000 lusty Moabites |
Jg
3:28-29 |
10,000 |
10,000 |
45 |
Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad |
Jg
3.31 |
600 |
600 |
46 |
Barak and God massacre the Canaanites |
Jg
4:15-16 |
– |
1,000 |
47 |
Jael pounds a tent stake through a sleeping man’s
skull |
Jg
4:18-22 |
1 |
1 |
48 |
Gideon’s story: The Lord set every man’s sword against
his fellow |
Jg
7:22 |
120,000 |
120,000 |
49 |
A city is massacred and 1000 burn to death because of
God’s evil spirit |
Jg
9:23-57 |
1,001 |
2,000 |
50 |
The Ammonite Massacre |
Jg
11:32-33 |
– |
20,000 |
51 |
Jephthah’s Daughter |
Jg
11:39 |
1 |
1 |
52 |
42,000 killed for failing the “shibboleth” test |
Jg
12.4-7, Heb
11.32 |
42,000 |
42,000 |
53 |
Samson murders 30 men for their clothes |
Jg
14:19 |
30 |
30 |
54 |
Samson kills 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass |
Jg
15:14-15 |
1,000 |
1,000 |
55 |
Samson kills 3000 in a suicide terrorist attack |
Jg
16:27-30 |
3,000 |
3,000 |
56 |
A holy civil war (called by rotting concubine body part
messages) |
Jg
20:35-37 |
65,100 |
65,100 |
57 |
The End of Judges: Two genocides and 200 stolen
virgins |
Jg
21.10-14 |
– |
4,000 |
58 |
God kills Eli’s sons along with 34,000 Israelite
soldiers |
1Sam
2:25, 1Sam
4:11 |
34,002 |
34,002 |
59 |
God smote them with hemorrhoids in their secret
parts |
1Sam
5:1-12 |
– |
3,000 |
60 |
God killed 50,070 for looking into the ark of the
Lord |
1Sam
6:19 |
50,070 |
50,070 |
61 |
The Lord thundered great thunder upon the
Philistines |
1Sam
7:10-11 |
– |
1,000 |
62 |
Another Ammonite Massacre (and another God-inspired
body-part message) |
1Sam
11:6-13 |
– |
1,000 |
63 |
Jonathan’s very fist slaughter (not counting the one
before) |
1Sam
14:12-14 |
20 |
20 |
64 |
God forces the Philistines to kill each other |
1Sam
14:20 |
– |
1,000 |
65 |
The Amalekite genocide |
1Sam
15:2-3 |
– |
10,000 |
66 |
Samuel hacks Agag to death before the Lord |
1Sam
15:32-33 |
1 |
1 |
67 |
David or Elhanan killed Goliath |
1Sam
17.51, 2Sam
21.19 |
1 |
1 |
68 |
David killed 200 Philistines for their foreskins (to
buy his first wife) |
1Sam
18.27 |
200 |
200 |
69 |
The Lord said to David, Go and smite the
Philistines |
1Sam
23:2-5 |
– |
10,000 |
70 |
God killed Nabal (and David got his wife and other
stuff) |
1Sam
25:38 |
1 |
1 |
71 |
David committed genocides for the Philistines |
1Sam
27.8-11 |
– |
60,000 |
72 |
David spends the day killing Amalekites |
1Sam
30:17 |
– |
1,000 |
73 |
God kills Saul, his sons, and his men because Saul
didn’t kill all the Amalekites |
1Sam
31:2, 1Chr
10:6 |
4 |
100 |
74 |
David killed the messenger |
2Sam
1.15 |
1 |
1 |
75 |
David killed Rechab and Baanah, cut off their hands and
feet, and hung up their dead bodies |
2Sam
4.12 |
2 |
2 |
76 |
God helps David smite Philistines from the front and
the rear |
2Sam
5:19-25 |
– |
2,000 |
77 |
God killed Uzzah for trying to keep the ark from
falling |
2Sam
6:6-7, 1Chr
13:9-10 |
1 |
1 |
78 |
David killed 2/3 Moabite POWs and enslaved the rest |
2Sam
8.2 |
– |
667 |
79 |
The Lord gave David victory wherever he went |
2Sam
8.5, 10.18 |
65,850 |
66,850 |
80 |
David killed every male in Edom |
2Sam
8.13, 1Kg
11.15-16, 1Chr
18.12, Psalm
60:1 |
15,000 |
65,000 |
81 |
Thus did David unto all the children of Ammon |
2Sam
11.1, 1Chr
20.1 |
– |
1,000 |
82 |
God slowly kills a baby |
2Sam
12:14-18 |
1 |
1 |
83 |
Famine and human sacrfice: Seven sons of Saul are hung
up before the Lord |
2Sam
21:1-9 |
7 |
3,000 |
84 |
David’s mighty men and their amazing killings |
2Sam
23, 1Chr
11 |
1,403 |
3,400 |
|
85 |
A couple hundred thousand die because David had a
census |
2Sam
24:15, 1Chr
21:14 |
70,000 |
200,000 |
86 |
Solomon carried out the deathbed wish of David by
having Joab and Shimei murdered |
1Kg
2:29-34, 2:44-46 |
2 |
2 |
87 |
A tale of two prophets |
1Kg
13:11-24 |
1 |
1 |
88 |
Jeroboam’s son: God kills another child |
1Kg
14:17 |
1 |
1 |
89 |
Jeroboam’s family |
1Kg
15:29 |
– |
10 |
90 |
Baasha’s family and friends |
1Kg
16:11-12 |
– |
20 |
91 |
Zimri burns to death |
1Kg
16.18-19 |
1 |
1 |
92 |
The drought of Elijah |
1Kg
17.1, Lk
4.25, James
5.17-18 |
– |
3,000 |
93 |
Elijah kills 450 religious leaders in a prayer
contest |
1Kg
18.22-40 |
450 |
450 |
94 |
The first God-assisted slaughter of the Syrians |
1Kg
20:20-21 |
– |
10,000 |
95 |
God killed 100,000 Syrians for calling him a god of the
hills |
1Kg
20:28-29 |
100,000 |
100,000 |
96 |
God killed 27,000 Syrians by making a wall fall on
them |
1Kg
20:30 |
27,000 |
27,000 |
97 |
God sent a lion to kill a man for not smiting a
prophet |
1Kg
20:35-36 |
1 |
1 |
98 |
God kills Ahab for not killing a captured king |
1Kg
20:42, 22:35 |
1 |
1 |
99 |
God burned to death 102 men for asking Elijah to come
down from his hill |
2Kg
1:10-12 |
102 |
102 |
100 |
God killed King Ahaziah for asking the wrong God |
2Kg
1:16-17; 2Chr
22:7-9 |
1 |
1 |
101 |
God sent two bears to rip apart 42 boys for making fun
of a prophet’s bald head |
2Kg
2:23-24 |
42 |
42 |
102 |
The Lord delivered the Moabites |
2Kg
3:18-25 |
– |
5,000 |
103 |
A skeptic is trampled to death |
2Kg
7.2-20 |
1 |
1 |
104 |
Another seven year famine |
2Kg
8:1 |
– |
7,000 |
105 |
Jehoram of Israel |
2Kg
9:24 |
1 |
1 |
106 |
Jezebel |
2Kg
9:33-37 |
1 |
1 |
107 |
Ahab’s sons: Seventy heads in two heaps |
2Kg
10:6-10 |
70 |
70 |
108 |
Ahab’s hometown family, friends, and priests |
2Kg
10:11 |
– |
20 |
109 |
Jehu killed Ahaziah’s family |
2Kg
10.12-13, 2Chr
22.7-9 |
42 |
42 |
110 |
Jehu and his partner kill the rest of Ahab’s family |
2Kg
10:17 |
– |
20 |
111 |
Jehu assembles the followers of Baal and then
slaughters them all |
2Kg
10.18-25 |
– |
1,000 |
112 |
Mattan the priest of Baal and Queen Athaliah |
2Kg
11.17-20 |
2 |
2 |
113 |
God sends lions to eat those that don’t fear him
enough |
2Kg
17:25-26 |
– |
10 |
114 |
An angel killed 185,000 sleeping soldiers |
2Kg
19:34, Is
37:36 |
185,000 |
185,000 |
115 |
God caused Sennacherib to be killed by his sons |
2Kg
19:37 |
1 |
1 |
116 |
Josiah killed all the priests of the high places |
2Kg
23.20 |
– |
100 |
117 |
Another holy war |
1Chr
5:18-22 |
– |
50,000 |
118 |
God killed a half million Israelite soldiers |
2Chr
13:17-18 |
500,000 |
500,000 |
119 |
Jeroboam |
2Chr
13:20 |
1 |
1 |
120 |
God killed a million Ethiopians |
2Chr
14:9-14 |
1,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
121 |
Friendly Fire: God forced “a great multitude” to kill
each other |
2Chr
20:22-25 |
– |
30,000 |
122 |
God made Jehoram’s bowels fall out |
2Chr
21:14-19 |
1 |
1 |
123 |
God killed Jehoram’s sons |
2Chr
22:1 |
– |
3 |
124 |
Ahaziah (of Judah) |
2Chr
22.7-9 |
1 |
1 |
125 |
Joash, the princes, and army of Judah |
2Chr
24:20-25 |
1 |
10,000 |
126 |
God destroyed Amaziah |
2Chr
25:15-27 |
1 |
1000 |
127 |
God smote Ahaz with the king of Syria |
2Chr
28:1-5 |
– |
10,000 |
128 |
God killed 120,000 valiant men for forsaking him |
2Chr
28:6 |
120,000 |
120,000 |
129 |
The fall of Jerusalem |
2Chr
36:16-17 |
– |
10,000 |
130 |
God and Satan kill Job’s children and slaves |
Job
1:18-19 |
10 |
60 |
131 |
Hananiah |
Jeremiah
28:15-16 |
1 |
1 |
132 |
Ezekiel’s wife |
Ezek
24:15-18 |
1 |
1 |
133 |
Annanias and Sapphira |
Acts
5:1-10 |
2 |
2 |
134 |
Herod |
Acts
12:23 |
1 |
1 |
135 |
Jesus |
Rom
8:32, 1Pet
1.18-20 |
1 |
1 |
Total |
2,476,636 |
24,634,205 |
One Particular Example
Here is just one of God’s atrocious, heinous, unspeakable crimes against humanity.
In Deuteronomy 20:10-17, God says to offer peace to cities en route to Canaan? – if they take it, they are your slaves; otherwise kill all the males and rape all the woman … and then “utterly destroy” (commit genocide upon) six different groups “as your inheritance”.
When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.
And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword”
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth
But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as theLORD thy God hath commanded thee:
What kind of nonsense is this? Of course we don’t believe any of it happened – there is no evidence of this slaughter and carnage outside the bible. But Christians and Jews have to believe it because it’s in the Bible.
So your loving, perfect, God, says lie about your intentions: offer peace – if they take it, they are your slaves; otherwise kill all the males and rape all the woman. We think that today’s Jews should apologize to the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites – wait… they can’t because they were utterly destroyed – or were they? Some of them are still around.
Commentary
And why all this carnage, murder and genocide? Why it’s because the lord, YOUR God, GIVES the land of others to the Jews as an inheritance! And the Jews still believe this – they still kill people because they believe that God gave them the land around Israel – read today’s news. It’s part of their beloved Torah.
They really like the genocide that happened in Egypt when God killed all of the first born Egyptians. The Jews celebrate this genocide still – it’s called Passover. Passover is CELEBRATED every year. STILL! They can’t get over it. We think they should apologize to the Egyptians too.
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God is a homophobe, too. In the story of Lot, he destroys the city of Sodom just because the men their were gay.
Homosexuality is a sin. God made male and female. Man with man or female with female is an abomination.
Sin or not, murder is also a sin. Let’s not go cherry-picking on when or which sins are ok to do/ when its ok to justify it.
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What murder? Everyone has sinned and is worthy of judgment. The only reason we weren’t smited down was because of God’s mercy.
Everybody wants evil to be punished, and when it is, they complain!
This is all explained…The way it’s cherry picked makes it complete bs….🎱
Following is the truth about the Current Bible that knowledgeable European writers have established:
1. None of the original manuscripts have survived from the early Christian period.
2. The New Testament contains enough inconsistencies to have spawned a dizzying variety of interpretations, beliefs and religions, all allegedly Bible-based.
3. Different theological camps disagree on which books should be included in the Bible. One camp’s apocrypha is another’s scripture. Furthermore, even among those books that have been canonized, the many variant source texts lack uniformity. This lack of uniformity is so ubiquitous that The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible states, “It is safe to say that there is not one sentence in the NT in which the MS [manuscript] tradition is wholly uniform.”
4. Not one sentence? We can’t trust a single sentence of the Bible. Hard to believe.
5. There are over 5,700 Greek manuscripts of all or part of the New Testament. Furthermore, “no two of these manuscripts are exactly alike in all their particulars… And some of these differences are significant.” Factor in roughly ten thousand manuscripts of the Latin Vulgate, add the many other ancient variants (i.e., Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic, Nubian, Gothic, Slavonic), and what do we have? A lot of manuscripts.
6. Scholars estimate the number of manuscript variants in the hundreds of thousands. Some estimating as high as 400,000. In Bart D. Ehrman’s now famous words, “Possibly it is easiest to put the matter in comparative terms: there are more differences in our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.”
7. There were over forty authors of the Bible spanning over three continents.
– Catholic Bible: 73 books
– Protestant Bible: 66 books
– Greek Orthodox Bible: 78 books
8. How did this happen?
– Poor recordkeeping,
– Dishonesty,
– Incompetence,
– Doctrinal prejudice, or
– Take your pick.
Inconsistencies? Would you list them?
Lacks uniformity? Check out this graphic:
Click to access MiraculousBible,CrossReferencesAsArcs,MarvelousUnity,40Authors,1500Years,66Books,BeyondMansCapabilities.pdf
ERRORS IN THE OLD & NEW TESTAMENTS
– I have hundreds more that cover 20 pages. But this site limits how much you enter in a message.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ERRORS
– Mark Twain: [The Bible] has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
– Let’s begin by putting “two of every sort (of animal) into the ark,” and then… Oh, wait. Was that “two of every sort,” as per Genesis 6:19, or seven of clean and two of unclean animals, as per Genesis 7:2–3?
– We’ve got up to 120 years to think about it, because that’s the limit of the human lifespan, as per God’s promise in Genesis 6:3. So, just like Shem . . . Oops. Bad example. Genesis 11:11 states, “Shem lived five hundred years…”
– Okay, forget Shem. So, just like Noah . . . Double Oops. Genesis 9:29 teaches, “So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.” So, let’s see, Genesis 6:3 promised a lifespan limited to 120 years, but a few verses later both Shem and Noah broke the rule?
– Ishmael was sixteen before Sarah ordered Abraham to cast him out (Genesis 21:10). Genesis 21:14–19 portrays the outcast Ishmael as a helpless infant rather than an able-bodied sixteen-year-old youth.
– 2 Chronicles 22:2 teaches that “Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king…” Huh. Forty-two years old. Hardly seems worthy of mention. Unless, that is, we note that 2 Kings 8:26 records, “Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king . . .” So, which was it? Forty-two or twenty-two?
– 2 Chronicles 21:20 teaches that Ahaziah’s father, King Jehoram, died at the age of forty… and was succeeded by his son, who was forty-two? In other words, King Jehoram fathered a child two years older than himself? 2 Chronicles 22:1 points out that Ahaziah was King Jehoram’s youngest son, for raiders had killed all Jehoram’s older sons.
– 2 Chronicles 22:2, states that Ahaziah was forty-two when he assumed the throne?
– Isiah 40:8 claims that “the word of our God stands forever.” According to Isaiah 40:8, any “word” which has not “stood forever” is disqualified as having been from God. Which should make us question the authorship.
– If “the word of our God stands forever,” and the “word” of Ahaziah’s age doesn’t stand the test of time, whose word is it? God’s or Satan’s?
– 2 Samuel 24:1 reads, “Again the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel, and He moved David against them to say, ‘Go, number Israel and Judah.’” However, 1 Chronicles 21:1 states, “Now Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.” Uhhh, which was it? The Lord, or Satan? There’s a slight (like, total) difference.
– God said in Exodus 33:20, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” Genesis 32:30 states, “So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: ‘For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.’”
– And we mustn’t forget Moses, as per Exodus 33:11: “So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.” So no man can see God’s face, and live. Except for Jacob and Moses. But God didn’t mention that exception, did He?
– Genesis 6:6–7 suggests that God makes mistakes for which He repents, as follows: “And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So, the LORD said, ‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.’”
– On the other hand, Numbers 23:19 records, “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent.”
– 2 Samuel 8:4 speaks of David taking seven hundred horsemen and 1 Chronicles 18:4, describing the exact same event, makes it seven thousand. Big deal. Seven hundred in one verse, seven thousand in another—obviously some scribe flubbed a zero. Wrong. The Old Testament doesn’t have zeros. The earliest evidence of the zero dates from 933 CE.
– 2 Samuel 10:18 speaks of seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand horsemen, and 1 Chronicles 19:18 speaks of seven thousand charioteers and forty-thousand-foot soldiers. 2 Samuel 23:8 records eight hundred men, 1 Chronicles 11:11 numbers them at three hundred. And in case the reader suspects they are speaking about different events, Josheb-Basshebeth and Jashobeam are cross-referenced, clarifying that both passages describe the same person.
– 2 Samuel 24:9 describes eight hundred thousand men “who drew the sword” in Israel and five hundred thousand in Judah; 1 Chronicles 21:5 puts the numbers at one million one hundred thousand in Israel and four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah.
– 2 Samuel 24:13 describes seven years of famine, 1 Chronicles 21:11–12 states it was three.
– 1 Kings 4:26 numbers Solomon’s horse stalls at forty thousand, 2 Chronicles 9:25 numbers them at four thousand. Remember, the number zero DID NOT exist at that time. So, it was not an error of simply adding an extra zero.
– 1 Kings 15:33 teaches that Baasha reigned as king of Israel until the twenty-seventh year of Asa, king of Judah; 2 Chronicles 16:1 states Baasha was still king of Israel in the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign.
– 1 Kings 5:15–16 speaks of 3,300 deputies to Solomon, 2 Chronicles 2:2 records 3,600.
– In 1 Kings 7:26 we read of two thousand baths, but in 2 Chronicles 4:5 the number is three thousand.
– 2 Kings 24:8 states “Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.” 2 Chronicles 36:9 records, “Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months and ten days.”
– Ezra 2:65 writes of two hundred men and women singers, Nehemiah 7:67 states they were two hundred and forty-five.
– From the point of validating the Old Testament as the inerrant word of God, these discrepancies are highly significant.
– Genesis 26:34 tells us Esau’s wives were Judith and Basemath; Genesis 36:2–3 records his wives as Adah, Aholibamah and Basemath.
– 2 Samuel 6:23 states that Michal was childless until the day she died; 2 Samuel 21:8 attributes five sons to Michal.
– 2 Samuel 8:9–10 speaks of Toi as king of Hamath, and Joram as an emissary of King David; 1 Chronicles 18:9–10 records the king’s name as Tou, and that of the emissary as Hadoram.
– 2 Samuel 17:25 tells us Jithra (a.k.a. Jether; both names are cross-referenced, so we know these two passages speak of the same individual) was an Israelite, whereas 1 Chronicles 2:17 identifies him as an Ishmaelite.
– Old Testament authors substituted “Israelite” with “Ishmaelite.”
– The fact that stories do change, both in Old and New Testaments, threatens the claim to biblical inerrancy.
– “Does anybody really believe that Jacob wrestled with God, and Jacob prevailed (Genesis 32:24–30)?”
– Genesis 2:17 records God warning Adam, “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Genesis 3:3 contributes, “but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’” So, which is it? Did Adam bite the apple or didn’t he? The way the story is told, he bit the apple and lived. Yet God promised death the very same day.
– Who wrote the Old Testament? Tradition relates that Moses wrote the Pentateuch (the first five books), but we can assume he encountered a slight technical difficulty (like the fact that he was dead) when it came to recording his own obituary in Deuteronomy 34:5–12. So, who authored his death, burial, wake, and the aftermath?
– Then there are the tales of naked drunkenness, incest, and whoredom that no person of modesty could read to their mother, much less to their own children. And yet, a fifth of the world’s population trusts a book which records that Noah “drank of the wine and was drunk, and became uncovered (naked) in his tent” (Genesis 9:22).
– To preserve the lineage of our father, both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father (Genesis 19:30–36).
– Tales of debauchery and deviancy include adultery and prostitution (Genesis 38:15–26), more prostitution (Judges 16:1), wholesale depravity (2 Samuel 16:20–23), whoredom (Ezekiel 16:20–34 and 23:1–21), and whoredom spiced with adultery (Proverbs 7:10–19).
– The incestuous rape of Tamar in 2 Samuel 13:7–14 bears a most interesting moral, for Tamar was counseled to “hold her peace,” for “He [the rapist, Amnon] is your brother; (so) do not take this thing to heart” (2 Samuel 13:20). Oh, whew, the rapist was her brother—no problem, then… Say WHAT? Are we to believe that such “pearls of wisdom” are the fruits of revelation—or the stuff of deviant dreams?
– 2 Timothy 3:16 reads, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God…” Can anyone conceive the “profit, reproof, correction, or instruction in righteousness” conveyed in the above passages?
– According to Genesis 38:15–30, Perez and Zerah were born to Tamar after incestuous fornication with her father-in-law, Judah. Passing over the fact that, according to Leviticus 20:12, both Judah and Tamar should have been executed (and prophets are not above the law).
– Either David and Solomon were not prophets or the Old Testament is not to be trusted. The pieces of God-given revelation shouldn’t require reshaping and force to fit together. They should snap together in congruence with the perfection of the One who created the heavens and earth in perfect harmony.
– The Old Testament—so full of errors that even one of the authors bemoans the scriptural corruption generated by the “false pens of the scribes.”
– Many claim that similar problems plague the New Testament—that weaknesses, inconsistencies, and contradictions upset the claim of divine inerrancy.
How can God lovers and followers continue to live their lives under an umbrella of lies and deciept manufactured 1,000s of years ago, by nomadic, tribal , spiritual leaders, who still believed that the earth was flat, and that the sun orbited the earth. ? Do they feel the least bit silly for being so easily decieved into believing that this ancient God was their creator, and then, their savior?
I am an atheist because I read The Bible. Christians believe in The Bbile because the haven’t read it.
If we could comprehend an all-knowing, all-powerful God in our tiny three pound brain He wouldn’t be a God worth worshipping. That is where your problem lies: trying to do just that.
We have laws and we punish those who break our laws. How much more for the Creator of the Universe!( uni = one, verse = spoken sentence – in the beginning God SAID btw)
When we break God’s law, we deserve death. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t stop it from being true. Want hard evidence of God? A SPIRITUAL ENTITY who no longer walks with us as he did with Adam before the fall? SEEK HIM. HE WILL REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU. He promised us that.
Jeremiah 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Isn’t that the LOGICAL THING to do? You have a side of people telling you to seek God and you will find him. Isn’t that the SCIENTIFIC THING to do? Test the HYPOTHESIS? If you TRULY seek God with all your heart and He doesn’t reveal Himself then you can continue on with your hatred of the Bible. But! God cannot lie- so I have a feeling that you will find Him. 🙂 God bless
“If we could comprehend an all-knowing, all-powerful God in our tiny three pound brain He wouldn’ t be a God worth worshipping”. Every human who wrote any part of the Bible had a three pound brain, and had only bronze-age knowledge. Even if there were such an omniscient/omnipresent God, anything it said to these humans would probably be incomprehensible. Even if some of that God-signal made it through, it would be warped beyond recognition by trying to put it into words.
And also, since we can’t even comprehend such a God, ANY words would not come close to characterizing It. So by that logic, the Bible is not about that God at all.
What makes more sense (using the simplest explanation possible, a la Occam’ razor) is that humans throughout the ages who wrote the pieces of text that made it into the present Old Testament were trying to make sense of the world around them. The members of the Twelve Tribes of Israel were struggling to make a homeland in a chaotic world. They needed a tribal deity that was their very own, and thus created Jehovah, a god who loved his people and would do anything to help them, even destroying whole cultures and civilizations around the wandering Hebrew tribes. This god is the one that was morphed into an omniscient/omnipotent God, a very regrettable development in the history of the world.
God, an infinite being who CREATED US, knows perfectly well how to communicate with US. If you are arguing that He cannot, your argument is foolish.
Matthew 19:26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
“The Bible is a collection of 66 books written by 40 different authors,
on three different continents, in three different languages, over a period of 1500 years.”
Without a SINGLE contradiction. There has never been a book written like the Bible. It IS the Word of God.
Jeremiah 29:13 tells us: And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
If you are truly interested in the accuracy of the Bible – look into prophecy and fulfillment. I guarantee no other book predicts and FULFILLS prophecy like the Bible. As if God knew what was going to happen!
Click to access MiraculousBible,CrossReferencesAsArcs,MarvelousUnity,40Authors,1500Years,66Books,BeyondMansCapabilities.pdf
You are misquoting Deut 20:10-17 for it does not say rape the women.
Here’s a short phrase I never picked up until last night at a Christmas Eve candlelight service (went because of family, not b/c I wanted to): in Isaiah 9:3, it says about the coming Messiah:
“You (future Messiah) have multiplied the nation, you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder.”
So the people will be just as happy with the new Messiah as they are when they go to neighboring countries, kill and rape their inhabitants, carry back all of the dead civilians’ clothing, precious items, food, etc, and have a big meeting where they divide everything up. I never realized that this was the kind of joy for the expectation of the Messiah, ie Jesus. Maybe this is the source of the current prosperity gospel making the rounds in Trump Christianity.
If God really thinks that faith in his son Jesus is the absolute best condition (Divine Ideal) for all humanity, God has done an incredible job proving the exact opposite. Since Jesus came and went, nearly 2000 years ago, billions of people have been born, lived and died without ever, even hearing about Jesus. The vast majority of people alive right now will die the same way.
“God loves all people, equally.” Really? That is proven false by the fact that he has ensured the vast majority of people will never even know about his “greatest gift.” By this simple fact, the saying, “God is love,” is proven false. Facts are facts; God has failed. His failure, percentage wise, is nearly as bad as the failure demonstrated by the planners of RMS Titanic. In that disaster, 68% of passengers died. Currently, only 33% of the world’s population are Christians. 67% will die without Christ. (The Good News?) Oh, but that is man’s fault and failure…not Gods! Right, sure, our fault…again.
As It was perfect, It was happy to require that there be some Dane, Ib, also, who it is, right now a totally sick f., who like his f. wife gives me no idea at all, if I can contradict my own & relev. Buddhism occupation, ‘testify(!)’ to being just myself, that’s by eye fine enough by me, without any arrog. conflict, anyway, pls., so I can find out etc.
Why do we allow ourselves to be imperfect, in-divine?
Our evolving divinity or Aïn Soph Aur in the making?
Would we be gods / goddesses in embryo to become God / Goddess?
http://www.howworldcan.be
Enjoy reading,
Rémi Vandersmissen
Certainly makes me wish I served a more loving God than this.
He was arrog. w ME, an issue, He didn’t give me any hard evid. at all that I could rely on, J.A., Chile.
What “hard” evidence do you need?
Typical blind believer, wants hard evidence when it is staring him in the face.
Go back to Genesis 2 where God made Adam and told him not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and then made Eve and then read Genesis 3 and pay CLOSE attention to what the serpent said – “You will not surely die” and “You will become as gods knowing good and evil”. Then read Genesis 3:25 where God states, “Behold they have become like us, knowing good and evil.” Then read the NT where Paul said the plan of salvation was founded before the foundation of the world. Taking those two statements and comparing them to what the serpent said, the serpent was NOT Satan because the serpent DID NOT LIE. Both of its statements were true.
Now, one has to ask, since God is all-knowing and “knows the end from the beginning”, WHY did He put the tree in the Garden and tell Adam not to eat from it knowing full well that he would? Lawyers successfully sue tobacco companies for diseases and deaths from smoking despite the warnings on the packs. Terry Nichols is serving life with no parole in federal prison because he knew Timothy McVeigh was going to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in 1995 but didn’t notify law enforcement. There is talk of suing gun manufacturers if their guns are used in homicides even though the manufacturer isn’t pulling the trigger – they simply produced the gun just as God produced the Tree.
We are on the verge of producing robots with artificial intelligence. If we do and they revolt against us, who’s fault is it – theirs for “disobeying” their creators or ours for giving them the ability to do so??
Again, the question is WHY would God deliberately sabotage His creation? Who in their right mind does that??
Read Isaiah 45:7 where God admits to creating evil.
100 %,,,, True . The god created by the Babylonian brother hood
Makes you wonder if any religious people actually have their share of the family brain cell. Only 1 question required: Could an omnipotent God make a stone he/she/it couldn’t lift?
Numbers 31:17
Rev. 20:14 Torture is a crime.
Rape of Mary to conceive Jesus is a crime.
You can go to Bible Hub or Gateway and enter searches like slave, murder, kill, hell, rape, etc, and get a boat load of material.
Cause You Guys Is The Devil…. That Why You Want People To Read That Demonic Saying What You And Other Devils Came Up With… What About What The “Most High” Words Say? You Personal Tell Satan’s He Losing….. .
How about actually read that bible of yours? It is all there, word for word, and all through out history, there has never ONCE been a war in the name of “Satan”, and never ONCE in all of the Bible, does it say that SATAN ordered war…only your god. So who are you really serving?
That commentary you made was a bit invalid and nit-picking.
Or I should say, there’s alot of things that you should understand better.
Sometimes you don’t understand better.