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I see what the orignial poster means and I can see why he used the extreme terms and it describes what he sees. The bible is one book but when Jesus was not in the flesh there was a lot of killing going on in the bible and when he arrives in the flesh he doesn't kill. Give the poster credit for seeing this
What if it doesn't pan out as you plan it? I've spoken to loads of Christians in various denominations and cults and every one has a certain view of what God's plan is for the world..strange thing is, that it cannot possibly be any different to what they themselves think will happen.....but in time they adapt and change their view because none have had their current view always...its just the latest incarnation of what they thought before when they were so sure
Maybe accepting what God finally does may be the wise move
we all have a walk to do and however you see church there is something really big missing from it. I'm simply searching for what that is....the world has wanted to destroy the nation of Israel even before it was reborn again with a land. I'll never have the answers but i will ask the question "why?". What makes the Jews such a target and no i do not wish to be Jewish but I do want to find out whats missing in the "Christian Church of today because the structure is just a diluted version of the Catholic Church done slightly differently. Even the home churches end up growing into what they have left behind.
You may not grasp what I see but that's fine. Every search has to start somewhere so mine is in the start of that nation and the begining of the modern Christian church and seeing what of it is around in this later Church....thats where i discovered no ending to the Sabbath...something I didn't know but also nothing in the mega church prosperity gospel was back there either...the list is endless,
-Elijah674- I might be wrong and I am not an expert on the Bible but maybe I have an answer for you. History books are constantly telling us that "History always repeats itself" and "Rise and fall of every civilization that has ever existed". Now what does that have to do with God and the Bible? When Christianity or the land of Israel etc. first started everything was militant, harsh, disciplined etc. and human beings were willing to sacrifice their lives for the cause. As time went on civilizations and religions etc. started to get lazy and they started to water down the hard or difficult parts of the civilization or religion and the Bible. Remember we can interpret the Bible and Gods word to mean that we should accept Homosexuality and Same Sex Marriages and Abortions and Pedophilia etc. because it is the lazy way of justifing anything. In America and western Europe we now are lazy and greedy and this is why we are falling apart...
--Elijah here:
OK: Let me come back & just give Inspiration? I will just ad highlites for emphasis. Remember your questions asked + just forget the Rev. 17:1-5 ones for now. This was Christs Church/House. Check out what you find in [this future prophecy?]
Isa. 5
[1] Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
[2] And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
[3] And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, [[judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.]](see verse 7)
[4] What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
[5] And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
[6] And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
[7] For [[the vineyard]] of the LORD of hosts is [[the house]] of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
[8] Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
(Perhaps you might just read Christ's WORD on Matt. 23:38 also for this prophecies fullfillment?)
Matt. 23
[37] O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
[38] Behold, your [[house is left unto you desolate]].
---Elijah
We know that, we have seen it with our own eyes the scattering of that nation throughout all lands but surely the sign of the gathering back together to the home that was desolate and that they were scattered from means that God is letting this occur .......He can do desolate,..for whatever period he chooses
How much would you bet on that? ;)Here is an answer I will bet no one will agree with:
1. God's promotion of war in the Old Testament is something He had no choice but to do, in service of a greater good in the setting of the Biblical narrative. As such, this model of divine behaviour should not be seen as normative.
2. Jesus shows the real model for dealing with evil this side of the cross.
If anyone wants me to expand on this, I will.
Are you suggesting that you agree with my assertion that God "had no choice" but to order all that Old Testament violence? If so, I am perhaps a little surprised - you and I agree on much, but I would not have been surprised if we would not see this issue the same way.How much would you bet on that? ;)