Bible Question:
I believe in God and I believe in heaven. But I've recently finished reading the bible for the 3rd time and I can't help feeling it just isn't true. God kills so many people and demands others to kill in his name. God's 10 commandments says murder is a sin and punishable by death, yet right after Mosses wrote that down he murders half of his people just for worshiping a golden cow (that they didn't know was a sin since Mosses hadn't come down with the commandments yet) And then there are so many contradictions. I just don't know. Can someone help me understand this? Do I NEED the bible to love God? Or can I just love God without it? |
Bible Answer: First Welcome to the Forum! Adien22 I think you confuse execution with murder. While both end lives, murder is the unwarranted taking of a life. An execution is the carrying out of a sentence of death. If you think about it we are all under that sentence because of the sin that entered into this world, we must all physically die and one day should the Lord tarry we all will. However if we have salvation we will continue to live with Jesus in heaven. That said. Yes God did order various executions, all were just. For God is just. We may not always understand or see the justice of God's actions but we must remember we do not always have all the facts. As to the incident you mentioned of the children of Israel rebelling against God and trying to create their own god. They did know what they were doing. The living and true God had walked before them and brought them out of the hands of Pharaoh, yet instead of worshipping him they tried to create a god from creation to worship. It wasn't about an the idol it was about their deciding they could create a God. It was rebellion and God carried out the sentence of death upon them |
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