God is love or we Get Infinite punishment for our finite sins

[Lori_7]

I may have missed it Lori...

did you respond to this


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But when I raise an specific example regarding a young Muslim man, you no longer say it. Which is it Lori
the good, young Muslim man following the religion of his village and parents necessarily goes to hell if he dies a Muslim? or if he is a good person he too can go to heaven?

yes i did respond to it by saying that i don't know what happens to us when we die. no one here does.

i don't know what hell is and i don't know what heaven is. this is what i know...i can see and feel the effects of good and evil all around me every day. there are people who don't recognize this at all...that say evil is natural, and relative, and good, and imaginary. there are people who have other ways of dealing with it. if you look at the behavioral outcomes of practicing the worlds major religions, the only ways they differ are in the intentions of the practitioner, and if it's malintent the manifestations of that are the same.

christianity is the only religion that says, "there is something wrong with you. it's wrong with everyone. and regardless of how often you meditate, or eat meat, or practice yoga, or recite prayers, or elect politicians, or adopt philosophies, or sacrifice animals, you're not going to get rid of it, because it's genetic. you have to be born into a body that you can not create to rid yourself of the affliction." and i want to rid myself.

 

[Lori_7]

Regardless of whether or not I agree with you on it being a "law" the fact remains that it DOES have numerous connotations since there is no universal agreement on what "evil" means.

well perhaps that's the problem. perhaps that is beyond our scope because we did not create the law, and perhaps communion with the creator would enlighten us.

that's the basis for christianity.

What you think and what is real are two different things. There is no calculus of human emotion (that's available to us at least).

well there's calculus for everything else, why would emotion be any different?

Yeah, that's one view.

there isn't even any emotion suggested in what i'm conveying. there's no emotion in math.

 

[Dywyddyr]

well perhaps that's the problem.

As you see it.

perhaps that is beyond our scope because we did not create the law, and perhaps communion with the creator would enlighten us.

As you see it.

well there's calculus for everything else, why would emotion be any different?

Wow, where did you get your education?
There's calculi for very few things in the real world. Maybe you're just blinded because the situations where we do have it crowd out the others...
Why do you think the social sciences are "looked down upon"*? No mathematics.
Where's the calculus for sports? Oh wait, we actually play out sporting events to see who wins instead of doing the maths.
Most human endeavours (especially those involving other humans) lack solid (or in many cases any) mathematical foundations.
Heck, I even had chemistry explained to me after a particularly hair-tearing session as "not amenable to calculation, old son, that's WHY we do the damned experiments".

there's no emotion in math.

On the contrary, an equation can be beautiful and awe-inspiring.

* Not to genuinely knock the social sciences, but it is a generally-acknowledged (and usually generally-accepted) characterisation. Physics envy, pfft.

 

[elvinatom]

i don't know what hell is and i don't know what heaven is. this is what i know...i can see and feel the effects of good and evil all around me every day. there are people who don't recognize this at all...that say evil is natural, and relative, and good, and imaginary. there are people who have other ways of dealing with it. if you look at the behavioral outcomes of practicing the worlds major religions, the only ways they differ are in the intentions of the practitioner, and if it's malintent the manifestations of that are the same.

You define good and evil as a universal value (i can see and feel the effects of good and evil all around me every day). How would you then define those words? The point I'm getting at is this: All and any values, may that be good, evil, pretty, fast, holly or smart, are judgments of the individual. They are not universal, measurable values, like temperature for example. An action can be a good deed for one and an evil for another. How can you decide which is valid and why?

About that: well perhaps that's the problem. perhaps that is beyond our scope because we did not create the law, and perhaps communion with the creator would enlighten us.

Then how can we be expected to follow someone's rules without having them being explained properly. You don't tell your children to only do what you like, because they cannot know what you like.

Lori, please acknowledge that good and evil are personal values that vary from individual to individual.

 

[IamJoseph]

Hell is other people........ who believe in Hell.

Belief in hell is a hellish belief.

 

[IamJoseph]

To what in your opinion is the law, right?

Oh, you mean some institutions, the one's that in your opinion are bona fide.

Do you have a list of these laws you could link us to? Hell, I thought in the OT a woman who remarries could be stoned to death. I don't think very many bona fide institutions accept that law.

Its a low debating attitude here. Everything which is blatantly correct and not required to debate, is manipulated into an enigma. Any religion or nation may call their laws as the law - Germany once did. But those are not laws per se - they become law when they are more or less accepted by humanity at large, and they become enshrined in the world's most advanced institutions. This is the difference of the Hebrew with the Christian and Islamic scriptures: facts are facts - let the truth set them free]. One of those scriptures is not based solely on belief - at least not to unacceptable extents.

 

[IamJoseph]

Do you have a list of these laws you could link us to?

Welcome to planet earth. No link, but it is worth reading, it is an amazing set of laws, each alignable with today's knowledge and science. It also describes appropriate punishments on this earth - for crimes commited on this earth. And the good news is no eternel hell - its energy conscious.

To honor the old and the wise (Lev. 19:32) (CCA17).
Not to add to the commandments of the Torah, whether in the Written Law or in its interpretation received by tradition (Deut. 13:1) (CCN159).
Not to stand by idly when a human life is in danger (Lev. 19:16) (CCN82).
Not to wrong any one in speech (Lev. 25:17) (CCN48).
26. Not to carry tales (Lev. 19:16) (CCN77). See Speech and Lashon Ha-Ra.
27. Not to cherish hatred in one's heart (Lev. 19:17) (CCN78). See Love and Brotherhood.
28. Not to take revenge (Lev. 19:18) (CCN80).
29. Not to bear a grudge (Lev. 19:18) (CCN81).
30. Not to give occasion to the simple-minded to stumble on the road (Lev. 19:14) (this includes doing anything that will cause another to sin) (CCN76).
31. To rebuke the sinner (Lev. 19:17) (CCA72).
32. To relieve a neighbor of his burden and help to unload his beast (Ex. 23:5) (CCA70). See Love and Brotherhood.
33. To assist in replacing the load upon a neighbor's beast (Deut. 22:4) (CCA71).
34. Not to leave a beast, that has fallen down beneath its burden, unaided (Deut. 22:4)
The Poor and Unfortunate
40. Not to afflict an orphan or a widow (Ex. 22:21) (CCN51).
41. Not to reap the entire field (Lev. 19:9; Lev. 23:22) (negative) (CCI6).
42. To leave the unreaped corner of the field or orchard for the poor (Lev. 19:9) (affirmative) (CCI1).
43. Not to gather gleanings (the ears that have fallen to the ground while reaping) (Lev. 19:9) (negative) (CCI7).
44. To leave the gleanings for the poor (Lev. 19:9) (affirmative) (CCI2).
45. Not to refrain from maintaining a poor man and giving him what he needs (Deut. 15:7) (CCN62). See Tzedakah: Charity.
46. To give charity according to one's means (Deut. 15:11) (CCA38).
Treatment of Gentiles
47. To love the stranger (Deut. 10:19) (CCA61). See Love and Brotherhood.
48. Not to wrong the stranger in speech (Ex. 22:20) (CCN49).
49. Not to wrong the stranger in buying or selling (Ex. 22:20) (CCN50).
50. Not to intermarry with gentiles (Deut. 7:3) (CCN19). See Interfaith Marriages.
51. To exact the debt of an alien in commerce (Deut. 15:3) (affirmative).
52. To lend to an alien at interest (Deut. 23:21)

Marriage, Divorce and Family
59. To honor father and mother (Ex. 20:12) (CCA41).
60. Not to smite a father or a mother (Ex. 21:15) (CCN44).
61. Not to curse a father or mother (Ex. 21:17) (CCN46).
62. To reverently fear father and mother (Lev. 19:3) (CCA42).
63. To be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:28) (CCA43).

Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
64. That there shall be no harlot (in Israel); that is, that there shall be no intercourse with a woman, without previous marriage with a deed of marriage and formal declaration of marriage (Deut. 23:18) (CCN133). See Marriage.
To take a wife by kiddushin, the sacrament of marriage (Deut. 24:1) (CCA44).
65. That the newly married husband shall (be free) for one year to rejoice with his wife (Deut. 24:5) (affirmative).
66. That a bridegroom shall be exempt for a whole year from taking part in any public labor, such as military service, guarding the wall and similar duties (Deut. 24:5) (negative).
67. Not to withhold food, clothing or conjugal rights from a wife (Ex. 21:10) (CCN42).
68. That the woman suspected of adultery shall be dealt with as prescribed in the Torah (Num. 5:30) (affirmative).
69. That one who defames his wife's honor (by falsely accusing her of unchastity before marriage) must live with her all his lifetime (Deut. 22:19) (affirmative).
70. That a man may not divorce his wife concerning whom he has published an evil report (about her unchastity before marriage) (Deut. 22:19) (negative).
71. To divorce by a formal written document (Deut. 24:1) (affirmative). See The Process of Obtaining a Divorce.
72. That one who divorced his wife shall not remarry her, if after the divorce she had been married to another man (Deut. 24:4) (CCN134). See Divorce.
73. That a widow whose husband died childless must not be married to anyone but her deceased husband's brother (Deut. 25:5) (CCN135) (this is only in effect insofar as it requires the procedure of release below).
74. To marry the widow of a brother who has died childless (Deut. 25:5) (this is only in effect insofar as it requires the procedure of release below ) (CCA45).


Forbidden Sexual Relations
82. Not to indulge in familiarities with relatives, such as kissing, embracing, winking, skipping, which may lead to incest (Lev. 18:6) (CCN110).
83. Not to commit incest with one's mother (Lev. 18:7) (CCN112). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
84. Not to commit sodomy with one's father (Lev. 18:7) (CCN111).
85. Not to commit incest with one's father's wife (Lev. 18:8) (CCN113). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
86. Not to commit incest with one's sister (Lev. 18:9) (CCN127). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
87. Not to commit incest with one's father's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:11) (CCN128). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
88. Not to commit incest with one's son's daughter (Lev. 18:10) (CCN119) (Note: CC treats this and the next as one commandment; however, Rambam treats them as two). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
89. Not to commit incest with one's daughter's daughter (Lev. 18:10) (CCN119) (Note: CC treats this and the previous as one commandment; however, Rambam treats them as two). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
90. Not to commit incest with one's daughter (this is not explicitly in the Torah but is inferred from other explicit commands that would include it) (CCN120). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
91. Not to commit incest with one's fathers sister (Lev. 18:12) (CCN129). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
92. Not to commit incest with one's mother's sister (Lev. 18:13) (CCN130). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
93. Not to commit incest with one's father's brothers wife (Lev. 18:14) (CCN125). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
94. Not to commit sodomy with one's father's brother (Lev. 18:14) (CCN114).
95. Not to commit incest with one's son's wife (Lev. 18:15) (CCN115). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
96. Not to commit incest with one's brother's wife (Lev. 18:16) (CCN126). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
97. Not to commit incest with one's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:17) (CCN121). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
98. Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's son (Lev. 18:17) (CCN122). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
99. Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:17) (CCN123). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
100. Not to commit incest with one's wife's sister (Lev. 18:18) (CCN131). See Prohibited Marriages and Illegitimate Children.
101. Not to have intercourse with a woman, in her menstrual period (Lev. 18:19) (CCN132).
102. Not to have intercourse with another man's wife (Lev. 18:20) (CCN124).
103. Not to commit sodomy with a male (Lev. 18:22) (CCN116).
104. Not to have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23) (CCN117).
105. That a woman shall not have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23) (CCN118).
106. Not to castrate the male of any species; neither a man, nor a domestic or wild beast, nor a fowl (Lev. 22:24) (CCN143).

Dietary Laws
143. To examine the marks in cattle (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean) (Lev. 11:2) (affirmative). See Animals that may not be eaten.
144. Not to eat the flesh of unclean beasts (Lev. 11:4) (CCN93). See Animals that may not be eaten.
145. To examine the marks in fishes (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Lev. 11:9) (affirmative). See Animals that may not be eaten.
146. Not to eat unclean fish (Lev. 11:11) (CCN95). See Animals that may not be eaten.
147. To examine the marks in fowl, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Deut. 14:11) (affirmative). See Animals that may not be eaten.
148. Not to eat unclean fowl (Lev. 11:13) (CCN94). See Animals that may not be eaten.
149. To examine the marks in locusts, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Lev. 11:21) (affirmative). See Animals that may not be eaten.
150. Not to eat a worm found in fruit (Lev. 11:41) (CCN98). See Animals that may not be eaten.
151. Not to eat of things that creep upon the earth (Lev. 11:41-42) (CCN97). See Animals that may not be eaten.
152. Not to eat any vermin of the earth (Lev. 11:44) (CCN100). See Animals that may not be eaten.
153. Not to eat things that swarm in the water (Lev. 11:43 and 46) (CCN99). See Animals that may not be eaten.
154. Not to eat of winged insects (Deut. 14:19) (CCN96). See Animals that may not be eaten.
155. Not to eat the flesh of a beast that is terefah (lit torn) (Ex. 22:30) (CCN87). See Kosher slaughtering.
156. Not to eat the flesh of a beast that died of itself (Deut. 14:21) (CCN86). See Kosher slaughtering.
157. To slay cattle, deer and fowl according to the laws of shechitah if their flesh is to be eaten (Deut. 12:21) ("as I have commanded" in this verse refers to the technique) (CCA48). See Kosher slaughtering.
158. Not to eat a limb removed from a living beast (Deut. 12:23) (CCN90). See Kosher slaughtering.
159. Not to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day (Lev. 22:28) (CCN108).
160. Not to take the mother-bird with the young (Deut. 22:6) (CCN189). See Treatment of Animals.
161. To set the mother-bird free when taking the nest (Deut. 22:6-7) (CCA74). See Treatment of Animals.
162. Not to eat the flesh of an ox that was condemned to be stoned (Ex. 21:28) (negative).
163. Not to boil meat with milk (Ex. 23:19) (CCN91). See Separation of Meat and Dairy.
164. Not to eat flesh with milk (Ex. 34:26) (according to the Talmud, this passage is a distinct prohibition from the one in Ex. 23:19) (CCN92). See Separation of Meat and Dairy.
165. Not to eat the of the thigh-vein which shrank (Gen. 32:33) (CCN1). See Forbidden Fats and Nerves.
166. Not to eat chelev (tallow-fat) (Lev. 7:23) (CCN88). See Forbidden Fats and Nerves.
167. Not to eat blood (Lev. 7:26) (CCN89). See Draining of Blood.
168. To cover the blood of undomesticated animals (deer, etc.) and of fowl that have been killed (Lev. 17:13) (CCA49).
169. Not to eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard (not to rebel against father or mother) (Lev. 19:26; Deut. 21:20) (CCN106).
Business Practices
170. Not to do wrong in buying or selling (Lev. 25:14) (CCN47).
171. Not to make a loan to an Israelite on interest (Lev. 25:37) (CCN54).
172. Not to borrow on interest (Deut. 23:20) (because this would cause the lender to sin) (CCN55).
173. Not to take part in any usurious transaction between borrower and lender, neither as a surety, nor as a witness, nor as a writer of the bond for them (Ex. 22:24) (CCN53).
174. To lend to a poor person (Ex. 22:24) (even though the passage says "if you lend" it is understood as obligatory) (CCA62).
175. Not to demand from a poor man repayment of his debt, when the creditor knows that he cannot pay, nor press him (Ex. 22:24) (CCN52).
176. Not to take in pledge utensils used in preparing food (Deut. 24:6) (CCN58).
177. Not to exact a pledge from a debtor by force (Deut. 24:10) (CCN59).
178. Not to keep the pledge from its owner at the time when he needs it (Deut. 24:12) (CCN61).
179. To return a pledge to its owner (Deut. 24:13) (CCA63).
180. Not to take a pledge from a widow (Deut. 24:17) (CCN60).
181. Not to commit fraud in measuring (Lev. 19:35) (CCN83).
182. To ensure that scales and weights are correct (Lev. 19:36) (affirmative).
Not to possess inaccurate measures and weights (Deut. 25:13-14) (CCN84).
184. Not to delay payment of a hired man's wages (Lev. 19:13) (CCN38).

Vows, Oaths and Swearing
185. That a man should fulfill whatever he has uttered (Deut. 23:24) (CCA39).
186. Not to swear needlessly (Ex. 20:7) (CCN29).
187. Not to violate an oath or swear falsely (Lev. 19:12) (CCN31).
188. To decide in cases of annulment of vows, according to the rules set forth in the Torah (Num. 30:2-17) (CCA40).
189. Not to break a vow (Num. 30:3) (CCN184).
190. To swear by His name truly (Deut. 10:20) (affirmative).
191. Not to delay in fulfilling vows or bringing vowed or free-will offerings (Deut. 23:22) (CCN185).
The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years
210. To let the land lie fallow in the Sabbatical year (Ex. 23:11; Lev. 25:2) (affirmative) (CCI20).
211. To cease from tilling the land in the Sabbatical year (Ex. 23:11) (affirmative) (Lev. 25:2) (CCI21).
212. Not to till the ground in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:4) (negative) (CCI22).
213. Not to do any work on the trees in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:4) (negative) (CCI23).
214. Not to reap the aftermath that grows in the Sabbatical year, in the same way as it is reaped in other years (Lev. 25:5) (negative) (CCI24).
215. Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Sabbatical year in the same way as it is gathered in other years (Lev. 25:5) (negative) (CCI25).
216. To sound the Ram's horn in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:9) (affirmative).
217. To release debts in the seventh year (Deut. 15:2) (CCA64).
218. Not to demand return of a loan after the Sabbatical year has passed (Deut. 15:2) (CCN57).
219. Not to refrain from making a loan to a poor man, because of the release of loans in the Sabbatical year (Deut. 15:9) (CCN56).
220. To assemble the people to hear the Torah at the close of the seventh year (Deut. 31:12) (affirmative)
221. To count the years of the Jubilee by years and by cycles of seven years (Lev. 25:8) (affirmative).
222. To keep the Jubilee year holy by resting and letting the land lie fallow (Lev. 25:10) (affirmative).
223. Not to cultivate the soil nor do any work on the trees, in the Jubilee Year (Lev. 25:11) (negative).
224. Not to reap the aftermath of the field that grew of itself in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years (Lev. 25:11) (negative).
225. Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years (Lev. 25:11) (negative).
226. To grant redemption to the land in the Jubilee year (Lev. 25:24) (affirmative).
The Court and Judicial Procedure
227. To appoint judges and officers in every community of Israel (Deut. 16:18) (affirmative).
228. Not to appoint as a judge, a person who is not well versed in the laws of the Torah, even if he is expert in other branches of knowledge (Deut. 1:17) (CCN64).
229. To adjudicate cases of purchase and sale (Lev. 25:14) (CCA67).
230. To judge cases of liability of a paid depositary (Ex. 22:9) (affirmative).
231. To adjudicate cases of loss for which a gratuitous borrower is liable (Ex. 22:13-14) (affirmative).
232. To adjudicate cases of inheritances (Num. 27:8-11) (CCA73).
233. To judge cases of damage caused by an uncovered pit (Ex. 21:33-34) (affirmative).
234. To judge cases of injuries caused by beasts (Ex. 21:35-36) (affirmative).
235. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by trespass of cattle (Ex. 22:4) (affirmative).
236. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by fire (Ex. 22:5) (affirmative).
237. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by a gratuitous depositary (Ex. 22:6-7) (affirmative).
238. To adjudicate other cases between a plaintiff and a defendant (Ex. 22:8) (affirmative).
239. Not to curse a judge (Ex. 22:27) (CCN63).
240. That one who possesses evidence shall testify in Court (Lev. 5:1) (affirmative).
241. Not to testify falsely (Ex. 20:13) (CCN39).
242. That a witness, who has testified in a capital case, shall not lay down the law in that particular case (Num. 35:30) (negative).
243. That a transgressor shall not testify (Ex. 23:1) (CCN75).
244. That the court shall not accept the testimony of a close relative of the defendant in matters of capital punishment (Deut. 24:16) (CCN74).
245. Not to hear one of the parties to a suit in the absence of the other party (Ex. 23:1) (CCN65).
246. To examine witnesses thoroughly (Deut. 13:15) (affirmative).
247. Not to decide a case on the evidence of a single witness (Deut. 19:15) (CCN73).
248. To give the decision according to the majority, when there is a difference of opinion among the members of the Sanhedrin as to matters of law (Ex. 23:2) (affirmative).
249. Not to decide, in capital cases, according to the view of the majority, when those who are for condemnation exceed by one only, those who are for acquittal (Ex. 23:2) (negative).
250. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou bear witness in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice; (Ex. 23:2) (negative).
251. To treat parties in a litigation with equal impartiality (Lev. 19:15) (affirmative).
252. Not to render iniquitous decisions (Lev. 19:15) (CCN69).
253. Not to favor a great man when trying a case (Lev. 19:15) (CCN70).
254. Not to take a bribe (Ex. 23:8) (CCN71).
255. Not to be afraid of a bad man, when trying a case (Deut. 1:17) (CCN72).
256. Not to be moved in trying a case, by the poverty of one of the parties (Ex. 23:3; Lev. 19:15) (CCN66).
257. Not to pervert the judgment of strangers or orphans (Deut. 24:17) (CCN68).
258. Not to pervert the judgment of a sinner (a person poor in fulfillment of commandments) (Ex. 23:6) (CCN67).
259. Not to render a decision on one's personal opinion, but only on the evidence of two witnesses, who saw what actually occurred (Ex. 23:7) (negative).
260. Not to execute one guilty of a capital offense, before he has stood his trial (Num. 35:12) (negative).
261. To accept the rulings of every Supreme Court in Israel (Deut. 17:11) (affirmative).
262. Not to rebel against the orders of the Court (Deut. 17:11) (CCN158).
Injuries and Damages
263. To make a parapet for your roof (Deut. 22:8) (CCA75). See Love and Brotherhood.
264. Not to leave something that might cause hurt (Deut. 22:8) (CCN190). See Love and Brotherhood.
265. To save the pursued even at the cost of the life of the pursuer (Deut. 25:12) (affirmative). See Life.
266. Not to spare a pursuer, but he is to be slain before he reaches the pursued and slays the latter, or uncovers his nakedness (Deut. 25:12) (negative).
Property and Property Rights
267. Not to sell a field in the land of Israel in perpetuity (Lev. 25:23) (negative).
268. Not to change the character of the open land (about the cities of) the Levites or of their fields; not to sell it in perpetuity, but it may be redeemed at any time (Lev. 25:34) (negative). See Levi.
269. That houses sold within a walled city may be redeemed within a year (Lev. 25:29) (affirmative).
270. Not to remove landmarks (property boundaries) (Deut. 19:14) (CCN85).
271. Not to swear falsely in denial of another's property rights (Lev. 19:11) (CCN30).
272. Not to deny falsely another's property rights (Lev. 19:11) (CCN36).
273. Never to settle in the land of Egypt (Deut. 17:16) (CCN192).
274. Not to steal personal property (Lev. 19:11) (CCN34).
275. To restore that which one took by robbery (Lev. 5:23) (CCA68).
276. To return lost property (Deut. 22:1) (CCA69).
277. Not to pretend not to have seen lost property, to avoid the obligation to return it (Deut. 22:3) (CCN182).
Criminal Laws
278. Not to slay an innocent person (Ex. 20:13) (CCN32). See Life.
279. Not to kidnap any person of Israel (Ex. 20:13) (according to the Talmud, this verse refers to stealing a person, distinguished from Lev. 19:11, regarding the taking of property) (CCN33).
280. Not to rob by violence (Lev. 19:13) (CCN35).
281. Not to defraud (Lev. 19:13) (CCN37).
282. Not to covet what belongs to another (Ex. 20:14) (CCN40).
283. Not to crave something that belongs to another (Deut. 5:18) (CCN41).
284. Not to indulge in evil thoughts and sights (Num. 15:39) (CCN156).
Punishment and Restitution
285. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by decapitation with the sword (Ex. 21:20; Lev. 26:25) (affirmative).
286. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by strangulation (Lev. 20:10) (affirmative).
287. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by burning with fire (Lev. 20:14) (affirmative).
288. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by stoning (Deut. 22:24) (affirmative).
289. To hang the dead body of one who has incurred that penalty (Deut. 21:22) (affirmative).
290. That the dead body of an executed criminal shall not remain hanging on the tree over night (Deut. 21:23) (negative).
291. To inter the executed on the day of execution (Deut. 21:23) (affirmative)
292. Not to accept ransom from a murderer (Num. 35:31) (negative).
293. To exile one who committed accidental homicide (Num. 35:25) (affirmative).
294. To establish six cities of refuge (for those who committed accidental homicide) (Deut. 19:3) (affirmative).
295. Not to accept ransom from an accidental homicide, so as to relieve him from exile (Num. 35:32) (negative).
296. To decapitate the heifer in the manner prescribed (in expiation of a murder on the road, the perpetrator of which remained undiscovered) (Deut. 21:4) (affirmative).
297. Not to plow nor sow the rough valley (in which a heifer's neck was broken) (Deut. 21:4) (negative).
298. To adjudge a thief to pay compensation or (in certain cases) suffer death (Ex. 21:16; Ex. 21:37; Ex. 22:1) (affirmative).
299. That he who inflicts a bodily injury shall pay monetary compensation (Ex. 21:18-19) (affirmative).
300. To impose a penalty of fifty shekels upon the seducer (of an unbetrothed virgin) and enforce the other rules in connection with the case (Ex. 22:15-16) (affirmative).
301. That the violator (of an unbetrothed virgin) shall marry her (Deut. 22:28-29) (affirmative).
302. That one who has raped a damsel and has then (in accordance with the law) married her, may not divorce her (Deut. 22:29) (negative).
303. Not to inflict punishment on Shabbat (Ex. 35:3) (because some punishments were inflicted by fire) (negative). See Shabbat.
304. To punish the wicked by the infliction of stripes (Deut. 25:2) (affirmative).
305. Not to exceed the statutory number of stripes laid on one who has incurred that punishment (Deut. 25:3) (and by implication, not to strike anyone) (CCN43).
306. Not to spare the offender, in imposing the prescribed penalties on one who has caused damage (Deut. 19:13) (negative).
307. To do unto false witnesses as they had purposed to do (to the accused) (Deut. 19:19) (affirmative).
308. Not to punish any one who has committed an offense under duress (Deut. 22:26) (negative).
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
358. Not to cross-breed cattle of different species (Lev. 19:19) (according to the Talmud, this also applies to birds) (CCN142).
359. Not to sow different kinds of seed together in one field (Lev. 19:19) (CCN107).
360. Not to eat the fruit of a tree for three years from the time it was planted (Lev. 19:23) (CCN105). See Tu B'Shevat.
361. That the fruit of fruit-bearing trees in the fourth year of their planting shall be sacred like the second tithe and eaten in Jerusalem (Lev. 19:24) (affirmative) (CCI16). See Tu B'Shevat.
362. Not to sow grain or herbs in a vineyard (Deut. 22:9) (negative).
363. Not to eat the produce of diverse seeds sown in a vineyard (Deut. 22:9) (negative).
364. Not to work with beasts of different species, yoked together (Deut. 22:10) (CCN180).
Clothing
365. That a man shall not wear women's clothing (Deut. 22:5) (CCN179).
366. That a woman should not wear men's clothing (Deut. 22:5) (CCN178).
The King
581. Not to curse a ruler, that is, the King or the head of the College in the land of Israel (Ex. 22:27) (negative).
582. To appoint a king (Deut. 17:15) (affirmative).
583. Not to appoint as ruler over Israel, one who comes from non-Israelites (Deut. 17:15) (negative).
584. That the King shall not acquire an excessive number of horses (Deut. 17:16) (negative).
585. That the King shall not take an excessive number of wives (Deut. 17:17) (negative).
586. That he shall not accumulate an excessive quantity of gold and silver (Deut. 17:17) (negative).
Wars
598. That those engaged in warfare shall not fear their enemies nor be panic-stricken by them during battle (Deut. 3:22, 7:21, 20:3) (negative).
599. To anoint a special kohein (to speak to the soldiers) in a war (Deut. 20:2) (affirmative). . See Kohein.
600. In a permissive war (as distinguished from obligatory ones), to observe the procedure prescribed in the Torah (Deut. 20:10) (affirmative).
601. Not to destroy fruit trees (wantonly or in warfare) (Deut. 20:19-20) (CCN191).
602. To deal with a beautiful woman taken captive in war in the manner prescribed in the Torah (Deut. 21:10-14) (affirmative).
603. Not to sell a beautiful woman, (taken captive in war) (Deut. 21:14) (negative).
604. Not to degrade a beautiful woman (taken captive in war) to the condition of a bondwoman (Deut. 21:14) (negative).
605. That anyone who is unclean shall not enter the Camp of the Levites (Deut. 23:11) (according to the Talmud, in the present day this means the Temple mount) (CCN193).
606. To have a place outside the camp for sanitary purposes (Deut. 23:13) (affirmative).
607. To keep that place sanitary (Deut. 23:14-15) (affirmative)

Hell, I thought in the OT a woman who remarries could be stoned to death. I don't think very many bona fide institutions accept that law.

Your half right. You should read first about what you don't like.

 

[Doreen]

yes i did respond to it by saying that i don't know what happens to us when we die. no one here does.

i don't know what hell is and i don't know what heaven is. this is what i know...i can see and feel the effects of good and evil all around me every day. there are people who don't recognize this at all...that say evil is natural, and relative, and good, and imaginary. there are people who have other ways of dealing with it. if you look at the behavioral outcomes of practicing the worlds major religions, the only ways they differ are in the intentions of the practitioner, and if it's malintent the manifestations of that are the same.

christianity is the only religion that says, "there is something wrong with you. it's wrong with everyone. and regardless of how often you meditate, or eat meat, or practice yoga, or recite prayers, or elect politicians, or adopt philosophies, or sacrifice animals, you're not going to get rid of it, because it's genetic. you have to be born into a body that you can not create to rid yourself of the affliction." and i want to rid myself.

I found your response, now...

if the punishment is actually the consequence of sin, and christ is the only way to abolish sin...and if someone never finds that way, because they don't even believe it's possible...then wouldn't they stay in sin and continue in the consequence of it?

This is coy. You are trying to imply it is logical that such a Muslim should go to hell, but you are not actually taking a stand that says it. You frame it as a question. Do you believe that such a person is going to hell and do you think this is right if he is?

 

[Doreen]

Its a low debating attitude here. Everything which is blatantly correct and not required to debate, is manipulated into an enigma. Any religion or nation may call their laws as the law - Germany once did. But those are not laws per se - they become law when they are more or less accepted by humanity at large,

Which many of the laws in this list
http://www.jewfaq.org/613.htm
are not. Many of these laws are not accepted by humanity at large. So they are not laws, right? Further humanity at large used to accept slavery? So was that some kind of perfect timeless law?

and they become enshrined in the world's most advanced institutions.

Which many of these laws have not.

This is the difference of the Hebrew with the Christian and Islamic scriptures: facts are facts - let the truth set them free]. One of those scriptures is not based solely on belief - at least not to unacceptable extents.

What is bolded above makes no sense. First you define something as a law when it is accepted by most of humanity. Which means that we determine if something is law by how many people believe in it. They you say that it is not belief-based.

I looked at the beliefs, for example, related to marriage. I do not think there is remotely consensus on MOST of these laws. Therefore, according to your own definition above, they are not laws.

 

[Doreen]

Welcome to planet earth. No link, but it is worth reading, it is an amazing set of laws, each alignable with today's knowledge and science.

Not remotely. Current knowledge and science do not in any way support

Not to intermarry with gentiles
To put tzitzit on the corners of clothing
That a bridegroom shall be exempt for a whole year from taking part in any public labor, such as military service, guarding the wall and similar duties
That a widow whose husband died childless must not be married to anyone but her deceased husband's brother (Deut. 25:5) (CCN135)
Not to travel on Shabbat outside the limits of one's place of residence
To remove chametz on the Eve of Passover
Not to make a loan to an Israelite on interest
To keep the Canaanite slave forever
To sound the Ram's horn in the Sabbatical year
Not to remove the entire beard, like the idolaters

And so on. I just wandered through picked examples from different categories. There are many, many more of these, probably most, that are 1) not accepted by most of humanity 2) not supported by current science.

Your half right. You should read first about what you don't like.

I have read the OT, but it was quite some time ago. Instead of being coy, why don't you tell me what the law is on the issue and what half I got right and what half I got wrong.

 

[wynn]

This is coy.

She posts pictures of her behind in open forums, for crying out loud.
How reasonable or moral do you think such a person is? What good can be expected of her? Can a person who posts a picture of her behind in open forums be reasoned with?

 

[Lori_7]

I found your response, now...


This is coy. You are trying to imply it is logical that such a Muslim should go to hell, but you are not actually taking a stand that says it.

that's because i don't know what hell is, and i don't know where muslims go when they die, or where any of us go when we die. why would i? how would i?

all i have to relate to, until i die, is what i see while i'm alive.

 

[Lori_7]

She posts pictures of her behind in open forums, for crying out loud.
How reasonable or moral do you think such a person is? What good can be expected of her? Can a person who posts a picture of her behind in open forums be reasoned with?

signal,

have you ever told anyone to kiss your ass? flipped someone off? gotten angry with someone and demonstrated that to some degree in public? have you ever returned an insult?

if you haven't, then you're a better person than i am. does that seem reasonable?

 

[Dywyddyr]

Its a low debating attitude here. Everything which is blatantly correct and not required to debate, is manipulated into an enigma.

Ah, you see. There's your problem.
What you decide to call "blatantly correct" is in fact not so.

Any religion or nation may call their laws as the law - Germany once did.

As all countries do.

But those are not laws per se - they become law when they are more or less accepted by humanity at large, and they become enshrined in the world's most advanced institutions.

You obviously have a different definition of "law" than the rest of us.
For example most of us tend to see "law" as something along these lines:

1 a (1) : a binding custom or practice of a community : a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority (2) : the whole body of such customs, practices, or rules (3

Whereas you...? Who knows?

This is the difference of the Hebrew with the Christian and Islamic scriptures: facts are facts - let the truth set them free].

Correct. Facts ARE facts. But you persist in claiming something as fact when it isn't.

 

[Dywyddyr]

Oh my! I just noticed this:

82. Not to indulge in familiarities with relatives, such as kissing, embracing, winking, skipping, which may lead to incest (Lev. 18:6)

Winking leads to incest?
Skipping does?

Oh hell, I remember winking at my dad once.
I'm DOOOOOMED!!!

 

[Lori_7]

As you see it.


As you see it.


Wow, where did you get your education?
There's calculi for very few things in the real world. Maybe you're just blinded because the situations where we do have it crowd out the others...
Why do you think the social sciences are "looked down upon"*? No mathematics.
Where's the calculus for sports? Oh wait, we actually play out sporting events to see who wins instead of doing the maths.
Most human endeavours (especially those involving other humans) lack solid (or in many cases any) mathematical foundations.
Heck, I even had chemistry explained to me after a particularly hair-tearing session as "not amenable to calculation, old son, that's WHY we do the damned experiments".


On the contrary, an equation can be beautiful and awe-inspiring.

* Not to genuinely knock the social sciences, but it is a generally-acknowledged (and usually generally-accepted) characterisation. Physics envy, pfft.

i have a degree in business admin from the university of cincinnati. i'm an accountant. it's my job to quantify everything involved in running a business, plug those values into equations, and produce answers for decision-making.

sports are mathematical. a basketball player knows that from any point on the court, if he shoots the ball with a certain amount of force, at a certain trajectory, to achieve a certain speed, and cover a certain distance, the ball will go into the basket, every single time. that's why they practice shooting. and a player knows that if his team has the correct response to any offensive or defensive move the opposing team makes, they'll win the game. that's why they practice strategies.

even biology is mathematical.

and you can quantify the results of experiments. that's how they're replicated.

i think it should possible to quantify human behavior as well, but we as humans don't have the comprehensive knowledge to do it, but god does. i actually think that's what judgement is...the revelation of the true and comprehensive affect of your life. your footprint so to speak...which is quantifiable.

 

[Dywyddyr]

i have a degree in business admin from the university of cincinnati. i'm an accountant. it's my job to quantify everything involved in running a business, plug those values into equations, and produce answers for decision-making.

Non sequitur. But let me ask you something pertinent. Does every one of the decisions taken, using those calculations, work out as predicted? No. And why not? Because we have no (reliable) calculus of human behaviour.

sports are mathematical. a basketball player knows that from any point on the court, if he shoots the ball with a certain amount of force, at a certain trajectory, to achieve a certain speed, and cover a certain distance, the ball will go into the basket, every single time. that's why they practice shooting. and a player knows that if his team has the correct response to any offensive or defensive move the opposing team makes, they'll win the game. that's why they practice strategies.

Again you're conflating a calculus with containing some mathematics.
Players practise shooting because they cannot guarantee getting it correct each and every time, even though the equation for doing so is basic.
And your comment about "if his team has the correct response to any offensive or defensive move the opposing team makes, they'll win the game" is equally facile. Since they DON'T know the opposing team's moves (i.e. there is no input until the game occurs) then the result again is not calculable.
Plus, of course, there's always luck and random variation in a game of sport.
How many predictions of a game's result - made before the game occurs - actually come true? And why do the ones that don't come true not do so?

even biology is mathematical.

There are mathematical aspects to biology, certainly.

and you can quantify the results of experiments. that's how they're replicated.

See above.

i think it should possible to quantify human behavior as well, but we as humans don't have the comprehensive knowledge to do it, but god does.

That's a supposition.

i actually think that's what judgement is...the revelation of the true and comprehensive affect of your life. your footprint so to speak...which is quantifiable.

Quantifiable? To god I assume you mean. Otherwise, no.

 

[Doreen]

that's because i don't know what hell is, and i don't know where muslims go when they die, or where any of us go when we die. why would i? how would i?

all i have to relate to, until i die, is what i see while i'm alive.

Then why say that Christianity is the only religion that deals with the problem? Why imply something is the case but not be willing to state it openly?

why say this?

and it is only when our bodies become like his that the suffering and death desist.

You were referring to Jesus. This sounds like you know the way to everlasting life IN GENERAL.

or why say this?

hell is a result. hell is a consequence. your actions are not finite and consequence doesn't poof into thin air. i think, that if someone doesn't have a problem with the way things are right now on this earth, they're not going to have a problem in hell either

I thought you didn't know what hell is?

And again....Hapsburg specifically challenges the idea that not being Christian leads to hell and you respond with....

Originally Posted by Hapsburg
Assuming hell exists, which I don't believe at all.

Either way, it's absurd to punish people for simply not being Christian.

to not participate in a way to abolish sin? when sin is what causes a condition like hell?

Again talking about hell. And it certainly seems like you are disagreeing with him, though I'll admit it is not really clear what you are trying to say.

 

[Alan McDougall]

Oh my! I just noticed this:

Winking leads to incest?
Skipping does?

Oh hell, I remember winking at my dad once.
I'm DOOOOOMED!!!

To be fair we must give another side to the question and debate if YHWH or Allah are really God

1. Because God liked Abel's animal sacrifice more than Cain's vegetables, Cain kills his brother Abel in a fit of religious jealousy. 4:8
2. "I will destroy ... both man and beast."
God is angry. He decides to destroy all humans, beasts, creeping things, fowls, and "all flesh wherein there is breath of life." He plans to drown them all. 6:7, 17
3. "Every living substance that I have made will I destroy."
God repeats his intention to kill "every living substance ... from off the face of the earth." But why does God kill all the innocent animals? What had they done to deserve his wrath? It seems God never gets his fill of tormenting animals. 7:4
4. "All flesh died that moved upon the earth."
God drowns everything that breathes air. From newborn babies to koala bears -- all creatures great and small, the Lord God drowned them all. 7:21-23
5. God sends a plague on the Pharaoh and his household because the Pharaoh believed Abram's lie. 12:17
6. God tells Abram to kill some animals for him. The needless slaughter makes God feel better. 15:9-10
7. Hagar conceives, making Sarai jealous. Abram tells Sarai to do to Hagar whatever she wants. "And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled." 16:6
8. "I will not destroy it for ten's sake."
I guess God couldn't find even ten good Sodomites because he decides to kill them all in Genesis 19. Too bad Abraham didn't ask God about the children. Why not save them? If Abraham could find 10 good children, toddlers, infants, or babies, would God spare the city? Apparently not. God doesn't give a damn about children. 18:32
9. Lot refuses to give up his angels to the perverted mob, offering his two "virgin daughters" instead. He tells the bunch of angel rapers to "do unto them [his daughters] as is good in your eyes." This is the same man that is called "just" and "righteous" in 2 Peter 2:7-8. 19:7-8
10. God kills everyone (men, women, children, infants, newborns) in Sodom and Gomorrah by raining "fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven." Well, almost everyone -- he spares the "just and righteous" Lot and his family. 19:24
11. Lot's nameless wife looks back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt. 19:26
12. God threatens to kill Abimelech and his people for believing Abe's lie. 20:3-7
13. Sarai tells Abraham to "cast out this bondwoman and her son." God commands him to "hearken unto her voice." So Abraham abandons Hagar and Ishmael, casting them out into the wilderness to die. 21:10-14
14. God orders Abraham to kill Isaac as a burnt offering. Abraham shows his love for God by his willingness to murder his son. But finally, just before Isaac's throat is slit, God provides a goat to kill instead. 22:2-13
15. Abraham shows his willingness to kill his son for God. Only an evil God would ask a father to do that; only a bad father would be willing to do it. 22:10
16. Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, is "defiled" by a man who seems to love her dearly. Her brothers trick all of the men of the town and kill them (after first having them all circumcised), and then take their wives and children captive. 34:1-31
17. "The terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them." 35:5
18. "And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him." What did Er do to elicit God's wrath? The Bible doesn't say. Maybe he picked up some sticks on Saturday. 38:7
19. After God killed Er, Judah tells Onan to "go in unto they brother's wife." But "Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and ... when he went in unto his brother's wife ... he spilled it on the ground.... And the thing which he did displeased the Lord; wherefore he slew him also." This lovely Bible story is seldom read in Sunday School, but it is the basis of many Christian doctrines, including the condemnation of both masturbation and birth control. 38:8-10
20. After Judah pays Tamar for her services, he is told that she "played the harlot" and "is with child by whoredom." When Judah hears this, he says, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt." 38:24
21. Joseph interprets the baker's dream. He says that the pharaoh will cut off the baker's head, and hang his headless body on a tree for the birds to eat. 40:19
22. God brought a seven year, "very greivous" famine on the whole earth for no apparent reason (except maybe to make Joseph wealthy). 41:25-32, 54
Exodus
23. Moses murders an Egyptian after making sure that no one is looking. 2:11-12
24. "I will ... smite Egypt with all my wonders." 3:20
25. God threatens to kill the Pharaoh's firstborn son. 4:23
26. God decides to kill Moses because his son had not yet been circumcised. 4:24-26
27. Moses and Aaron ask the Pharaoh to let all the Israelites go into the desert to pray for three days, or else God will kill them all "with pestilence, or with the sword." 5:3
28. "Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh." 6:1
29. God will make sure that Pharaoh does not listen to Moses, so that he can kill Egyptians with his armies. 7:4
30. "And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD." Who else could be so cruel and unjust? 7:5, 17
31. God tells Moses and Aaron to smite the river and turn it into blood. 7:17-24
32. The fifth plague: all cattle in Egypt die. 9:2-6
33. The sixth plague: boils and blains upon man and beast. 9:9-12
34. "For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth." Who else but the biblical god could be so cruel? 9:14
35. God gave power to the Pharaoh so that he could show off his own power by killing him. 9:15-16
36. The seventh plague is hail. "And the hail smote throughout the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast." 9:22-25
37. God wants to be remembered forever for the mass murder of little children. 10:2
38. These verses clearly show that the mass murder of innocent children by God was premeditated. 11:4-6 (see 12:29-30)
39. God will kill the Egyptian children to show that he puts "a difference between the Egyptians and Israel." 11:7
40. God explains to Moses that he intends to "smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. 12:12
41. After God has sufficiently hardened the Pharaoh's heart, he kills all the firstborn Egyptian children. When he was finished "there was not a house where there was not one dead." Finally, he runs out of little babies to kill, so he slaughters the firstborn cattle, too. 12:29
42. To commemorate the divine massacre of the Egyptian children, Moses instructs the Israelites to "sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix" -- all the males, that is. God has no use for dead, burnt female bodies. 13:2, 12, 15
43. "I will harden Pharaoh's heart." 14:4
44. After hardening Pharaoh's heart a few more times, God drowns Pharaoh's army in the sea 14:4-28
45. The LORD shall fight for you 14:14
46. "I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour." 14:17
47. "And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen." 14:18
48. "And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians." 14:26
49. "And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians." 14:31
50. Moses and the people sing praises to their murderous god. 15:1-19
51. "The Lord is a man of war." Indeed, judging from his acts in the Old Testament, he is a vicious warlike monster. 15:3
52. God's right hand dashes people in pieces. 15:6
53. "For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them." 15:19
54. "Horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea." 15:21
55. If you do what God says, he won't send his diseases on you (like he did to the Egyptians). But otherwise.... 15:26
56. Joshua, with God's approval, kills the Amalekites "with the edge of the sword." 17:13
57. "I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven." 17:14
58. "The Lord has sworn [God swears!] that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." 17:14-16
59. Any person or animal that touches Mt. Sinai shall be stoned to death or "shot through." 19:12-13
60. Like the great and powerful Wizard of Oz, nobody can see God and live. 19:21
61. God gives instructions for killing and burning animals. He says that if we will make such "burnt offerings," he will bless us for it. What kind of mind would be pleased by the killing and burning of innocent animals? 20:24
62. A child who hits or curses his parents must be executed. 21:15, 17
63. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. 21:24-25
64. If an ox gores someone, "then the ox shall surely be stoned." 21:28
65. If an ox gores someone due to the negligence of its owner, then "the ox shall be stoned, and his owner shall be put to death.". 21:29
66. If an ox gores a slave, the owner of the ox must pay the owner of the slave 30 shekels of silver, and "the ox shall be stoned." 21:32
67. "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Thousands of innocent women have suffered excruciating deaths because of this verse. 22:18
68. "Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death." Is it really necessary to kill such people? Couldn't we just send them to counseling or something? 22:19
69. "He who sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed." If this commandment is obeyed, then the four billion people who do not believe in the biblical god must be killed. 22:20
70. If you make God angry enough, he will kill you and your family with his own sword. 22:24
71. "The firstborn of thy sons thou shalt give unto me." (As a burnt offering?) 22:29
72. God promises to "send his fear before the Israelites" and to kill everyone that they encounter when they enter the promised land. 23:27
73. Moses has some animals killed and their dead bodies burned for God. Then he sprinkles their blood on the altar and on the people. This makes God happy. 24:5-8
74. Get some animals, kill them, chop up their bodies, wave body parts in the air, burn the carcasses, and sprinkle the blood all around -- in precisely the way God tells you. It may well make you sick, but it makes God feel good. 29:11-37
75. Have your killed and offered your bullock for a sin offering today? How about the two lambs you are supposed to offer each day? 29:36-39
76. Wash up or die. 30:20-21
77. Whoever puts holy oil on a stranger shall be "cut off from his people." 30:33
78. Those who break the Sabbath are to be executed. 31:14
79. God asks to be left alone so that his "wrath may wax hot" and he can "consume them. 32:10
80. Moses burned the golden calf, ground it into powder, and then forced it down the throats of all the people. 32:20
81. God orders the sons of Levi (Moses, Aaron, and the other members of their tribe that were "on the Lord's side") to kill "every man his neighbor." "And there fell of the people that day about 3000 men." 32:27-28
82. "Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book." 32:33
83. But God wasn't satisfied with the slaughter of the 3000, so he killed some more people with a plague. 32:35
84. If you can't redeem him, then just "break his neck." Hey, it's all for the glory of God. 34:20
85. Whoever works, or even kindles a fire, on the Sabbath "shall be put to death." 35:2-3
Leviticus
86. God gives detailed instructions for performing ritualistic animal sacrifices. such bloody rituals must be important to God, judging from the number of times that he repeats their instructions. Indeed the entire first nine chapters of Leviticus can be summarized as follows: Get an animal, kill it, sprinkle the blood around, cut the dead animal into pieces, and burn it for a "sweet savor unto the Lord." Chapters 1 - 9
87. "Kill the bullock before the LORD ... bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar." 1:5
88. "Flay the burnt offering; cut it into pieces." 1:6
89. Lay ... the head, and the fat ... on the fire which is upon the altar: But his inwards and his legs ... burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice ... a sweet savour unto the LORD." 1:8-9
90. "Kill ... before the Lord and ... sprinkle blood round about." 1:11
91. "Cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat ... and burn it ... for a sweet savour unto the Lord." 1:12-13
92. "If the burnt sacrifice ... be of fowls ... wring off his head, and burn it ... and the blood thereof shall be wrung out." 1:14-15
93. "For a sweet savour unto the Lord." 1:17
94. "Part it in pieces... it is a meat offering." 2:6
95. "It is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire." 2:10
96. "He shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it ... and .... sprinkle the blood ... round about." 3:2
97. "The fat that covereth the inwards ... and the two kidneys ... and the caul above the liver.... It is ... a sweet savour unto the Lord." 3:3-5
98. "He shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it ... and .... sprinkle the blood ... round about." 3:8
99. "The fat ... the whole rump ... the inwards ... the two kidneys ... burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD." 3:9-11
100. "If his offering be a goat ... he shall lay his hand upon the head ... and kill it ... and ... sprinkle the blood ... round about." 3:12-13
101. "The fat that covereth the inwards ... the two kidneys ... and the caul above the liver ... burn them upon the altar; it is the food of the ooffering made by fire for a sweet savour." 3:14-16
102. "All the fat is the Lord's."
When you do your burnt offerings, remember that "all the fat is the Lord's." (And he doesn't like to share!) 3:16
103. "Kill the bullock before the Lord and take of the bullock's blood." 4:4
104. "The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle the blood seven times before the Lord." 4:6
105. "Put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar ... and ... pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar." 4:7
106. "Take ... all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards ... the two kidneys ... and the caul above the liver ... and ... burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering." 4:8-10
107. "And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung...."
What to do with the fat, kidneys, liver, skin, head, entrails, and dung from your burnt offerings. 4:11-12
108. "Offer a young bullock for the sin ... The bullock shall be killed before the Lord." 4:14-15
109. "Bring of the bullock's blood ... And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle the blood seven times before the Lord." 4:16-17
110. "Put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar ... and ... pour out all the blood ... and ... take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar." 4:18-19
111. "He shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it." 4:24-25
112. "The priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood ... and he shall burn all his fat upon the altar." 4:25-26
113. "Slay the sin offering ... and the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering ... and shall pour out all the blood." 4:29-30
114. "He shall take away all the fat ... and ... burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD." 4:31
115. "Slay the sin offering ... and the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and shall pour out all the blood." 4:33-35
116. "He shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD ... a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats."
If you touch an insect, dead animal, or "the uncleanness of man" or if you swear to do something good or bad (5:2-4), kill a female lamb or goat for God. (A female will do since it's a minor offense.) 5:6
117. "If he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring ... two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD ... and wring off his head."
If you don't have a lamb to kill for God, then you can wring off the head of a pigeon or dove. 5:7
118. "And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering." 5:9
119. "The Lord spake unto Moses, saying, If a soul ... sin through ignorance ... then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish."
If you sin without knowing that you've done anything wrong, kill an unblemished ram for God. 5:14-15
120. "This is the law of the sin offering: the sin offering [shall] be killed before the LORD: it is most holy." 6:25
121. "The trespass offering: it is most holy"
The holy law of trespass offering: Find an animal; kill it; sprinkle the blood around; offer God the fat, rump, kidneys, and caul; burn and eat it in the holy place, for "it is most holy." 7:1-6
122. Kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar." 7:2
123. "Offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them ... and the caul that is above the liver." 7:3
124. "It shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings." 7:14
125. Be careful what you eat during these animal sacrifices. Don't eat fat or blood -- these are for God. (And he doesn't like to share!) 7:18-27
126. "The fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD." Wave the fat and the breast for "a wave offering before the Lord." 7:30
127. "And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'." 7:31
128. "And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering." 7:32
129. "He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part."
Aaron's sons get the right shoulder from all peace offerings. 7:33
130. "For the wave breast and the heave shoulder ... a statute for ever."
Be sure to do your wave breast or heave shoulder today. It is a statute forver. 7:34
131. Moses does it all for God. First he kills an animal; wipes the blood on Aaron's ears, thumbs, and big toes. Then he sprinkles blood round about and waves the guts before the Lord. Finally he burns the whole mess for "a sweet savour before the Lord." 8:14-32
132. "Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering and he slew it." 8:14-15
133. "Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger .. and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar." 8:15
134. "And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar." 8:16
135. "But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses." 8:17
136. "Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. And he killed it." 8:18-19
137. "Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about." 8:19
138. "And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat." 8:20
139. "And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses." 8:21
140. "Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. And he slew it." 8:22-23
141. "Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot." 8:23
142. "And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about." 8:24
143. "And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder." 8:25
144. "And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD." 8:27
145. "Moses ... burnt them ... for a sweet savour." 8:28
146. "And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD." 8:29
147. "And Moses took ... of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments." 8:30
148. "Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh." 8:31
149. And that which remaineth of the flesh .... shall ye burn with fire." 8:32
150. More killing, sprinkling of blood, waiving animal parts, and burning carcasses "before the Lord." 9:2-21
151. "Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD." 9:2
152. "Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering." 9:3
153. "Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering." 9:4
154. Kill the calf, dip your finger in the blood, sprinkle the blood round about, burn the fat and entrails, and wave the breast for a wave offering before the Lord. 9:8-21
155. "Aaron ... slew the calf of the sin offering." 9:8
156. "And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar." 9:9
157. "But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses." 9:10
158. "And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp." 9:11
159. "And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar." 9:12
160. "And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar." 9:13
161. "And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar." 9:14
162. "And he ... took the goat ... the people, and slew it." 9:15
163. "He slew also the bullock and the ram ... and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about." 9:18
164. "And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver." 9:19
165. "And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar." 9:20
166. "And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded." 9:21
167. Two of the sons of Aaron "offered strange fire before the Lord" and "there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord." 10:1-2
168. Moses tells Aaron that his sons were burned to death to sanctfy and glorify God. 10:3
169. Moses tells Aaron's cousins to drag the burned bodies out of the camp, and he warns Aaron not to mourn the death of his sons or God will kill him too, along with everyone else. 10:4-6
170. If priests misbehave at the tabernacle by uncovering their heads, tearing their clothes, leaving with holy oil on them, or by drinking "wine or strong drink", then God will kill them and send his wrath on "all the people." 10:6-9
171. God will kill any priest that leaves the tabernacle. 10:7
172. If priests misbehave at the tabernacle by by drinking "wine or strong drink," then God will kill them and send his wrath on "all the people." "It shall be a statute for ever." 10:9
173. "And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place." 10:14
174. "The heave shoulder and the wave breast ... bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD." 10:15
175. "She shall bring a lamb ... for a burnt offering, and... a young pigeon, or dove, for a sin offering."
After a woman gives birth, a priest must kill a lamb, pigeon, or dove as a sin offering. This is because having children is sinful and God likes it when things are killed for him. 12:6
176. "If she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons ... and she shall be clean." 12:8
177. God's law for lepers: Get two birds. Kill one. Dip the live bird in the blood of the dead one. Sprinkle the blood on the leper seven times, and then let the blood-soaked bird fly off. Next find a lamb and kill it. Wipe some of its blood on the patient's right ear, thumb, and big toe. Sprinkle seven times with oil and wipe some of the oil on his right ear, thumb and big toe. Repeat. Finally kill a couple doves and offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. 14:2-32
178. "Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean ... and the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water." 14:4
179. "And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish ... And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering ... and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD." 14:10-12
180. "And he shall slay the lamb ... in the holy place: ... it is most holy." 14:13
181. "And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and ... put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot." 14:14
182. "The priest shall offer the sin offering ... and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering." 14:19
183. "If he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved ... and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons ... and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering." 14:21-22
184. "And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering ... and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:" 14:24
185. "And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot." 14:25
186. "And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get." 14:30
187. "Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering." 14:31
188. "When ye be come into the land of Canaan ... I put the plague of leprosy in ... the land of your possession."
God "put the plague of leprosy" on the Canaanites. 14:34
189. "He shall take to cleanse the house two birds ... And he shall kill the one of the birds ... And he shall take ... the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird ... and sprinkle the house seven times ... And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird." 14:49-52
190. "On the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons ... and ... offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering." 15:14-15
191. "On the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons ... for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness." 15:29-30
192. God warns Aaron that he might have to burn him to death like he did his sons. (10:1-2) 16:1-2
193. God explains the use of scapegoats. It goes like this: Get two goats. Kill one. Wipe, smear, and sprinkle the blood around seven times. Then take the other goat, give it the sins of all the people, and send it off into the wilderness. 16:8-28
194. "Kill the bullock of the sin offering." 16:11
195. "Take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it ... seven times." 16:14
196. "Kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood ... and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat." 16:15
197. "Take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about." 16:18
198. "He shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times." 16:19
199. Sprinkle the blood and burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the Lord. 17:6
200. If you upset God, he'll cause the land to vomit you out. 18:25
201. "Whosoever shall commit any of these abominations ... shall be cut off from among their people." 18:29
202. Don't eat sacrifices on the third day or God will cut you off from among your people. 19:6-8
203. Kill anyone who "gives his seed" to Molech. If you refuse, God will cut you and your family off. 20:2
204. If you refuse to kill someone who gives his seed to Molech, God set his face against you and your family. 20:4-5
205. "For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death." Couldn't we try spanking first? 20:9
206. Both parties in adultery shall be executed. 20:10
207. If a man has sex with his father's wife, kill them both. 20:11
208. If a man "lies" with his daughter-in-law, then both must be killed. 20:12
209. If a man has sex with another man, kill them both. 20:13
210. If you "lie" with your wife and your mother-in-law (now that sounds fun!), then all three of you must be burned to death. 20:14
211. If a man or woman "lie with a beast" both the person and the poor animal are to be killed. 20:15-16
212. People with "familiar spirits" (witches, fortune tellers, etc.) are to be stoned to death. 20:27
213. A priest's daughter who "plays the whore" is to be burned to death. 21:9
214. "Ye shall offer ... a male without blemish ... Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD ... Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut."
God wants us to kill lots of animals for him. Not just any animals, though. God only wants dead, male animals without any blemishes. 22:19-24
215. God gives us more instructions on killing and burning animals. I guess the first nine chapters of Leviticus wasn't enough. He says we must do this because he really likes the smell -- it is "a sweet savour unto the Lord." 23:12-14, 18
216. Don't do any work on the day of atonement or God will destroy you. 23:29-30
217. A man curses and blasphemes while disputing with another man. Moses asks God what to do about it. God says that the whole community must stone him to death. "And the children of Israel did as the Lord and Moses commanded." 24:10-23
218. Anyone who blasphemes or curses shall be stoned to death by the entire community. 24:16
219. "He that killeth any man shall surely be put to death." 24:17
220. "If a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him." 24:19
221. "Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again." 24:20
222. "He that killeth a man, he shall be put to death." 24:21
223. God tells the Israelites to make slaves out of their neighbors and their families. The "heathens" and "strangers" are to be their possessions forever. 25:44-46
224. God tells the Israelites to "chase" their enemies and make them "fall before you by the sword." He figures five of the Israelites will be able to "chase" a hundred of their enemies, and a hundred will be able to "put ten thousand to flight." 26:7-8
225. If you don't follow all of the laws in the Old Testament, God will shower you with all of the curses in the next 25 verses. 26:14-15
226. "I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it." 26:16
227. "I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies." 26:17
228. "I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins." 26:21
229. "I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle." 26:22
230. "I will bring a sword upon you ... I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy." 26:25
231. "And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." 26:29
232. "I will ... cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you." 26:30
233. "And I will make your cities waste." 26:31
234. "And I will bring the land into desolation". 26:32
235. "And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste." 26:33
236. "And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies." 26:37
237. "And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up." 26:38
238. All "devoted" things (both man and beast) "shall surely be put to death." 27:28-29
Numbers
239. God shows his hospitality with the admonition: "The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." 1:51, 3:10, 3:38
240. Two of Aaron's sons are killed by God for "offering strange fire before the Lord." 3:4
241. Don't touch or "go in to see when the holy things are covered." God kills people who touch or look at covered holy things. 4:15, 20
242. God tells the people to expel from camp "every leper, every one that hath an issue, and whoever is defiled by the dead." So by God's instructions, the sick are abandoned and left to suffer and die alone. 5:1-4
243. "He shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest ... and the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering." 6:10-11
244. "He ... shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering." 6:12
245. "He shall offer his offering unto the LORD, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings." 6:14
246. "The priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering." 616:
247. "The priest shall offer also his meat offering." 6:17
248. "And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram." 619:
249. "And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder." 6:20
250. When Moses set up the tabernacle, each of the twelve tribes kills a bullock, lamb, ram, and a kid, two oxen, and five rams, goats, and lambs for God, for a grand total of 240 animal sacrifices. 7:15-88
251. "The Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering." 8:8-12
252. All firstborn Israelites, "both man and beast", belong to God. He got them the day that he killed every Egyptian firstborn child and animal. 8:17
253. "And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it (He had his hearing aid on.) .... and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them."
God burned the complainers alive. That'll teach them! 11:1-2
254. "And wile the flesh [of the quails] was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. "The Bible isn't too clear about what these poor folks did to upset God so much; all it says is that they had "lusted." 11:33
255. Miriam and Aaron (Moses' brother and sister) criticize Moses for marrying an Ethiopian woman and thus breaking the law of God. But God makes it clear that his rules don't apply to his favorites, and he strikes Miriam with leprosy. Notice that only Miriam is punished, though both she and Aaron complained. 12:1, 9-10
256. God tells Moses that he is going to kill all of the Israelites -- every last whining one of the them, and then make a whole bunch of brand new Israelites. 14:12
257. God punishes the children for the failings of their great-great grandfathers. 14:18
258. So Moses talked God out of killing everyone. He'll just see to it that no one over 20 years old survives the trip to Israel. Their "carcases shall fall in the wilderness." 14:20-35
259. God killed the ten spies that gave a discouraging report with a plague. 14:36-37
260. "Ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD ... Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites ... smote them." 14:43-45
261. God gives more instructions for the ritualistic killing of animals. The smell of burning flesh is "a sweet savour unto the Lord." 15:3, 13-14, 24
262. The Israelites find a man picking up sticks on the sabbath. God commands them to kill him by throwing rocks at him. 15:32-36
263. Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."
God warns everyone to get away; he's going to kill some more people. 16:20-21
264. "Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me ... if the LORD make ... the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit..."
Moses tells the people that if the ground opens up and swallows the rebels and their families, then you'll know that God's on his side. 16:28-30
265. "The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah ... They ... went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them." 16:31-33
266. "And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense." 16:35
267. After God killed Korah, his family, and 250 innocent bystanders, the people complained saying, "ye have killed the people of the Lord." So God, who doesn't take kindly to criticism, sends a plague on the people. And "they that died in the plague were 14,700." 16:41-50
268. "Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment."
God threatens (again) to kill everyone (but his special friends, Moses and Aaron). 16:44-45
269. "For there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun ... they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred." 16:46-49
270. "Thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not." God threatens to kill those who murmur. 17:10
271. God threatens to kill those who murmur. To which the people reply, "Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish .... Shall we be consumed with dying?" 17:12-13
272. "They shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die."
Stay away from holy things and places -- like churches. God might have to kill you if you get too close. 18:3
273. God shows us how to make new friends by saying : "The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." 18:7
274. God describes once again the procedure for ritualistic animal sacrifices. such rituals must be extremely important to God, since he makes their performance a "statute" and "covenant" forever. 18:17-19
275. "Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die." 18:22
276. "Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die." 18:32
277. "This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded."
These absurd rituals, cruel sacrifices, and unjust punishments are vitally important to God. They are to be "a perpetual statute" for everyone on earth. 19:1-22
278. "Take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle ... seven times."
God's instructions for putting blood on fingers, sprinkling it around, and then burning the dung of sacrificial animals. This is something that everyone needs to know about. (That's why it's in the Bible!). 19:4-5
279. "And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities." This verse demonstrates the power of prayer: If you ask God, he will destroy entire cities for you. 21:3
280. God sends "fiery serpents" to bite his chosen people, and many of them die. 21:6
281. God delivers the Amorites into Moses' hands. (You're in God hands with Moses.) So Moses does the usual thing, killing everyone "until their was none left alive." 21:34-35
282. God's people will kill like a lion and then "drink the blood of the slain." 23:24
283. God, who is as strong as a unicorn, will eat up the nations, break their bones, and then pierce them through with his arrows. What a guy! 24:8
284. After the people "commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab," Moses has them all killed. Then God tells Moses to hang their dead bodies up in front of him; God says that this will satisfy him. 25:1-5
285. When one of the Israelite men brings home a foreign woman, "Phinehas (Aaron's grandson) sees them and throws a spear "through the man .. and the woman through her belly." This act pleases God so much that "the plague was stayed from the children of Israel." But not before 24,000 had died. 25:6-9
286. For impaling the interracial couple, God rewards Phinehas and his sons with the everlasting priesthood. 25:10-13
287. God tells Moses how to care for his neighbors by saying: "Vex the Midianites, and smite them." 25:16-17
288. The ground swallow Korah and his companions and a fire consumes 250 men. 26:10
289. "And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the Lord." When you go camping avoid making any unusual fires. 26:61
290. In these chapters, God provides ridiculously detailed instructions for the ritualistic sacrifice of animals. The burning of their dead bodies smells great to God. Eleven times in these two chapters God says that they are to him a "sweet savour." 28 - 29
291. Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some live, he angrily says: "Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." So they went back and did as Moses (and presumably God) instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins -- Wow! (Even God gets some of the booty -- including the virgins.) 31:1-54
292. "Every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle" 32:27
293. God killed all the Egyptian firstborn. 33:4
294. God tells Moses to exterminate the residents of Canaan and destroy all of their religious symbols and possessions. 33:50-52
295. But if the Israelites don't kill them all, then God will make them pricks in their eyes and thorns in their sides. And he will do unto the Israelites as he planned to do to the inhabitants of Canaan. 33:55-56
296. "The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him." The "revenger of blood" (the victim's closest relative) must murder the murderer just as soon as he sees him. 35:19, 21
297. "But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge ... and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood. Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest" If the accidental killer leaves the city of refuge and is caught by the revenger of blood, then the revenger can legally kill the accidental killer. 35:26-28
298. "Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death." 35:30
299. "The land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it." 35:33
Deuteronomy
300. "God ... shall fight for you." 1:30
301. "The hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed."
God killed all the Israelite soldiers -- slowly. It took him 38 years to kill them all, but he finally got the job done. 2:14-16
302. "A land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time ... but the Lord destroyed them." 2:20
303. "The Lord destroyed them before them" -- the general treatment of the people who were supposedly displaced by the Israelites. 2:21-22
304. "I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle." 2:24
305. All nations shall be terrorized by the followers of Yahweh. 2:25
306. God hardened the heart of the king of Heshbon and so that he could have him and all of his people killed. 2:30
307. At God's instructions, the Israelites "utterly destroyed the men, women, and the little ones" leaving "none to remain." 2:33-36
308. The Israelites, with God's help, kill all the men, women, and children of every city. 3:3-6
309. "And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city." 3:6
310. Moses promises Joshua that God will massacre kings and kingdoms for him, too. 3:21
311. When going to war, don't be afraid. God is on your side; "he shall fight for you." 3:22
312. "What God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works?" What other God can kill so many people? 3:24
313. God destroyed the followers of Baalpeor. 4:3
314. God brought the Israelites out of Egypt "by war ... and by great terrors." 4:34
315. If someone makes an image of anything (like a bird or flower) then God will destroy the entire nation. 4:25-26
316. If you worship the wrong god, God will get jealous and kill you. 6:15
317. God instructs the Israelites to kill, without mercy, all the inhabitants (strangers) of the land that they conquer. 7:2
318. If you do show any mercy to such strangers, "give your daughters to any of them, or "take" any of their daughters, then you'll get God so angry that he'll "destroy thee suddenly." 7:4
319. God will kill those who hate him. 7:10
320. God commands his people to "consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity on them." 7:16
321. God will send hornets to kill your enemies, "for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible." 7:20-23
322. "The LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed." 7:23
323. "If thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods ... ye shall surely perish." 8:19-20
324. God is "a consuming fire" that destroys people. 9:3
325. "The blood of sacrifices shall be poured out ... and thou shalt eat the flesh." Isn't this the sort of thing that Satanists are accused of doing? 12:27
326. After God kills those of other faiths, be sure to reject their beliefs and do not learn about them. Otherwise God will have to kill you too. 12:30
327. Prophets and dreamers are to be executed if they say or dream the wrong things. 13:1-5
328. If your brother, son, daughter, wife, or friend tries to get you to worship another god, "thou shalt surely kill him, thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death." 13:6-10
329. If you hear of a city where another god is worshiped, then destroy everyone in the city (even the cattle) and burn it down. (Watch out Salt Lake!) 13:12-16
330. Kill everyone who has religious beliefs that are different from your own. 17:2-7
331. Anyone who will not listen to a priest or a judge must be executed. 17:12-13
332. False prophets are to be (you guessed it) executed. How do you know who is a false prophet? By whether or not their predictions come true. (Watch out Jehovah's Witnesses!) 18:20
333. A murderer is to be killed by "the avenger of blood," which is the victim's nearest relative. "And thine eye shall not pity" them. 19:11-13
334. False witnesses are to be execucuted. 19:18-19
335. "And thine eye shall not pity. Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." 19:21
336. God travels with people and fights in their wars. 20:4
337. In the cities that god "delivers into thine hands" you must kill all the males (including old men, boys, and babies) with "the edge of the sword .... But the women ... shalt thou take unto yourself." 20:13
338. "But of the cities ... which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth." Kill the old men and women, the sick and the dying, the blind and the lame, pregnant mothers, nursing mothers, infants, toddlers, and babies. 20:16
339. If you find a dead body and don't know the cause of death, then get all the elders together, cut off the head of a heifer, wash your hands over its body, and say our hands have not shed this blood. (That'll do it!) 21:1-8
340. If you have a "stubborn and rebellious son," then you and the other men in your neighborhood "shall stone him with stones that he die." 21:18-21
341. Hang on trees the bodies of those who are "accursed of God." They make nice decorations. 21:22
342. If a man marries, then decides that he hates his wife, he can claim she wasn't a virgin when they were married. If her father can't produce the "tokens of her virginity" (bloody sheets), then the woman is to be stoned to death at her father's doorstep. 22:13-21
343. "If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die." 22:22
344. If a betrothed virgin is raped in the city and doesn't cry out loud enough, then "the men of the city shall stone her to death." 22:23-24
345. Legal disputes are settled by a judge who determines guilt or innocence. No lawyers or jury are needed. Those found guilty will be beaten with 40 stripes. 25:1-3
346. If two men fight and the wife of one grabs the "secrets" of the other, "then thou shalt cut off her hand" and "thine eye shall not pity her." 25:11-12
347. God commands the Israelites to "blot out the rembrance of Amalek from under heaven." A few hundred years later God orders Saul to kill of the Amalekites "both man and woman, infant and suckling." (1 Sam.15:2-3) 25:19
348. If you don't obey all of the laws that are given in the Old Testament, God shower you with the curses that are given in the next 52 verses. 28:16-68
349. "Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body." 28:18
350. "The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly." 28:20
351. "The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee." 28:21
352. "The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed." 28:24
353. "The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies." 28:25
354. "And thy carcass shall be meat to all the fowls of the air, and no man shall fray them away." 28:26
355. "The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and the emerods [hemorrhoids], and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst be healed." 28:27
356. "The Lord will smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart." 28:28
357. "And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee." 28:29
358. "Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes ... thine ass shall be violently taken away." 28:31
359. "Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people." 28:32
360. "The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed." 28:33
361. You will be enslaved and driven mad in another country. 28:33-34
362. "The Lord will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head." 28:35
363. You will be ruled by other nations, forced to serve other gods, become a laughingstock among your neighbors, have your crops destroyed by locusts, your vines eaten by worms, and have fruitless olive trees. 28:36-40
364. "Thou shalt begat sons and daughters, but thou shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity." 28:41
365. "All these curses shall come upon thee ... and upon thy seed for ever." 28:48-49
366. God will enslave you and destroy you with hunger, thirst, hardship, and all kinds of deprivation. 28:48-52
367. "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters." 28:53
368. "So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat." 28:54-55
369. "The tender and delicate woman" will be forced to eat her own children "that cometh out from between her feet." 28:56-57
370. "If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book. Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed ... Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed." 28:58-61
371. If the Jews don't follow God's laws he'll have most of them killed. 28:62
372. "The LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought." 28:63
373. "And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods." 28:64
374. "The LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind." 28:65
375. "And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life." 28:66
376. "In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see." 28:67
377. God will have you sold to your enemies -- but even they won't buy you. 28:68
378. If you serve the gods of other nations, "all the curses that are in this book" will fall upon you. 29:18-20
379. If you follow your own heart, God will curse you with all the curses in Deuteronomy 28:15-68. 29:19-20
380. "And the Lord will put all these curses upon thine enemies." See Dt.28:16-64 for some of the curses God has in mind. 30:7
381. Moses tells the people that God will destroy all the inhabitants of the lands that they pass through. 31:3
382. When God gets mad -- watch out! He'll starve you to death, burn you with fire, and send vicious beasts to devour you. He'll "destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs." Not even the helpless and innocent are spared by this psychotic God. 32:21-26
383. "For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains." 32:22
384. "I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them." 32:23
385. "They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust." 32:24
386. "The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs." 32:25
387. "I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men." 32:26
388. God says, "To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense ... for the day of their destruction is at hand." 32:35
389. God says, "I kill ... I wound ... I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh." Someone should take his sword and arrows away, at least until he's feeling better. 32:39-43
Joshua
390. "Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."
Donald Rumsfeld sent this verse to inspire the troops during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. 1:9
391. God "magnifies" Joshua and promises to "without fail" drive out all the inhabitants of the lands through which they passed. 3:7
392. "And the city shall be accursed ... and all that therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live." God explains that Rahab is to be spared since she hid Joshua's spies and lied to those who were searching for them (2:4-5). But why was everyone else killed? Some of them were probably liars too. 6:17
393. "And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword." 6:21
394. After killing everyone, "they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein." Only the valuables (silver, gold, brass, and iron) did they keep to "put into the treasury of the house of the Lord." 6:24
395. Joshua says that those who try to rebuild Jericho will be accursed by God, and will have to sacrifice both their oldest and their youngest sons in its construction. Well, Jericho still exists today, and is often considered to be the world's oldest, continuously occupied city. 6:26
396. God tells Joshua to kill whoever took "the accursed thing." 7:10-12
397. If you happen to see "the accursed thing," don't touch it. If you do, you, your family, and all of your animals must be burned. 7:15
398. "And Joshua ... took Achan ... and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his sheep... And all of Israel stoned them with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones." This is because Achan "took of the accursed thing" -- whatever that means. But why would God require that Achan's sons and daughters (and even his animals) be stoned to death along with him? The Bible doesn't say. But it does tell us that "the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger" when Achan, his children, and his animals were stoned to death and their dead bodies burned. 7:24-26
399. "When ye have taken the city [Ai] ... ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD. 8:8
400. "They smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape." 8:22
401. "When Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field ... all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword." 8:24
402. "All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand." 8:25
403. Joshua hangs the king of Ai on a tree until evening. 8:29
404. After Joshua kills all the inhabitants of Ai, burns their city, and hangs their king on a tree, he kills some animals and burns them as a "peace offering" to his warlike God. 8:31
405. God curses the Gibeonites to be slaves of the Jews forever. 9:21-27
406. "And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand."
God delivers the Amorites into Joshua's hand (so he can kill them all). 10:8
407. "And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way."
God slaughters the Amorites and even chases them along the way. 10:10
408. "The LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them ... and they died."
As the Amorites try to escape, God sends down huge hailstones and kills even more of them. 10:11
409. In a divine type of daylight savings time, God makes the sun stand still so that Joshua can get all his killing done before dark. 10:12-13
410. God tells Joshua to "pursue after your enemies and smite the hindmost of them." (Kick their butts.) Don't let any of them escape "for the Lord your God hath delivered them into your hand." 10:19
411. Joshua tells his captains to "put your feet upon the necks of these kings." He says, "thus shall the Lord do to all of your enemies." Then Joshua kills the kings and hangs them on trees. 10:24-26
412. "Put your feet upon the necks of these kings." 10:24
413. "Thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies." 10:25
414. "Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees." 10:25
415. Joshua, at God's command, kills everyone and everything that he can find (including babies and little children)-- or, as the Bible puts it, he "utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord commanded." 10:28-32
416. "Joshua ... smote it with the edge of the sword ... and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain." 10:28
417. "Then Joshua ... fought against Libnah: And the LORD delivered it also ... and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it." 10:29-30
418. "The LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which ... smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein." 10:32
419. Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining." 10:33
420. "Joshua passed unto Eglon ... and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed." 10:34-35
421. "Joshua went ... unto Hebron ... and smote it with the edge of the sword ... and all the cities ... and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining." 10:36-37
422. "Joshua returned ... to Debir ... And he took it ... and all the cities ... and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining."10:38-39
423. "So Joshua ... left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded." 10:40
424. "All these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel." 10:42
425. God delivers the Hazorites into Joshua's hand, and he knows just what to do with them: he smites them all with (you guessed it) the edge of the sword until "there was not any left to breathe." 11:6-17
426. "And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them ... and they smote them, until they left them none remaining." 11:8
427. "And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses." 11:9
428. "Joshua ... smote the king thereof with the sword." 11:10
429. "And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe." 11:11
430. "And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded." 11:12
431. "Every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe." 11:14
432. "As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses." 11:15
433. "So Joshua took ... all their kings ... and smote them, and slew them." 11:16-17
434. "For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly." Notice that God hardens their hearts so that he can have an excuse to kill them. 11:20
435. "Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities." 11:21
436. Caleb offers to give his daughter to whoever conquers the city of Debir. Caleb's nephew wins the contest and is given his cousin for a prize. 15:16-17
437. "Did not Achan son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel?" To find out see Joshua 7:1-26. 22:20
438. "I plagued Egypt." 24:5
439. God brags about drowning the Egyptians. 24:7
440. "I gave them [the Amorites] into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you." 24:8
441. "I delivered them into your hand." 24:11
442. God sent hornets to fight for the Israelites. 24:12
443. God is jealous and will never forgive you for your sins. "He will turn and do you hurt, and consume you." 24:19-20
Judges
444. God appoints Judah to succeed Joshua. The Lord delivers his foes into his hands and another 10,000 are slain. In the process, they capture Adonibezek and "cut off his thumbs and great toes." Nice guys. 1:2-6
445. The LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men." 1:4
446. "They slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it ... And the Lord was with Judah." (You can tell by the number of innocent people he killed.) 1:17, 19
447. The Israelite spies killed everyone in Bethel, except for the man (and his family) who showed them how to enter the city. 1:25
448. "The children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel ... So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years." 3:12-14
449. Ehud delivers a "message from God" to the king of Moab. God's message consists of a knife thrust so deeply into the king's belly that it could not be extracted, "and the dirt came out." Just another lovely Bible story. 3:15-22
450. God "delivers" more folks into the hands of his chosen people. "And they slew of Moab ... about 10,000 men ... and their escaped not a man." 3:28-29
451. Shamgar kills 600 Philistines with an ox goad. Praise God. 3:31
452. "The Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman." 4:9
453. "The Lord discomfited Sisera ... with the edge of the sword ... and there was not a man left." 4:15-16
454. Jael (our heroine) offers food and shelter to a traveler (Sisera, Jabin's captain), saying "turn in my Lord ... fear not." Then after giving him a glass of milk and tucking him in, she drives a tent stake through his head. "So God subdued on that day Jabin." 4:17-23
455. For murdering her guest while he slept, Jael is "blessed above women." (Hail Jael, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women....?) 5:24-26
456. "So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord." (Let them all have their temples pierced by blessed women.) 5:31
457. "The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years."
God forces the Israelites to be slaves to the Midianites for seven years. 6:1
458. "The LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man." God promises to help Gideon kill all the Midianites. 6:16
459. "The second bullock was offered upon the altar." 6:28
460. When Gideon and his water-lapping companions blow their trumpets, God forces all the enemy soldiers to kill each other, killing 120,000. 7:22, 8:10
461. Two princes are killed and their heads are brought to Gideon. 7:25
462. For refusing to feed him and his army, Gideon swears that he'll tear the flesh off the elders of Succoth. (And he carries out his threat in verse 16.) 8:7
463. "He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth." 8:16
464. "He beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city." 8:17
465. Gideon orders his son to kill two kings, but he refuses. So Gideon has to do it himself since his son isn't "man" enough to do it. 8:20-21
466. Abimelech kills 69 brothers "upon one stone." (He was trying to get in the Guinness Book of World Records.) 9:5
467. The curse of Jotham: "Let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem." (See 9:57) 9:20
468. God sends evil spirits that cause humans to deal treacherously with each other. 9:23-24
469. "And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal."
God had one thousand men and women burned to death to punish them for supporting Abimelech rather than Jotham. 9:57
470. "God ... delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites." 11:21
471. "Whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we [the Israelites] possess." 11:24
472. When "the spirit of the Lord" comes upon Jephthah, he makes a deal with God: If God will help him kill the Ammonites, then he (Jephthah) will offer to God as a burnt offering whatever comes out of his house to greet him. God keeps his end of the deal by providing Jephthah with "a very great slaughter." But when Jephthah returns, his nameless daughter comes out to greet him (who'd he expect, his wife?). Well, a deal's a deal, so he delivers her to God as a burnt offering -- after letting her spend a couple of months going up and down on the mountains bewailing her virginity. 11:29-39
473. "The LORD delivered them into his hands ... And he smote them ... even twenty cities ... with a very great slaughter." 11:32-33
474. "Her father ... did with her according to his vow which he had vowed." 11:39
475. 42,000 Ephraimites fail the "shibboleth" test and are killed by Jephthah's army. 12:6
476. "Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD." 13:19
477. Samson's lust for the Philistine woman was "of the Lord." It was all a part of God's plan for killing Philistines. 14:4
478. Samson rips up a young lion when "the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him." 14:5
479. "And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men ... and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle."
When the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson, he killed 30 men at random and took their clothes and gave it to the guys at the party as a prize for guessing his riddle.
(Samson might have been a decent person if he could have kept the spirit of the Lord off him.) 14:19
480. Samson catches 300 foxes, ties their tails together, and sets them on fire; the Philistines burn Samson's ex-wife and father-in-law; and Samson smites them "hip and thigh with a great slaughter." 15:4-8
481. "The spirit of the Lord came mightily upon" Samson and "he found a new jawbone of an ass ... and took it, and slew 1000 men therewith." 15:14-15
482. Samson, with God's help, kills himself and 3000 Philistine men and women by causing a roof to collapse, setting an example for Bible-based terrorism. 16:27-30
483. After taking in a traveling Levite, the host offers his virgin daughter and his guest's concubine to a mob of perverts (who want to have sex with his guest). The mob refuses the daughter, but accepts the concubine and they "abuse her all night." The next morning she crawls back to the doorstep and dies. The Levite puts her dead body on an ass and takes her home. Then he chops her body up into twelve pieces and sends them to each of the twelve tribes of Israel 19:22-30
484. "I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country."
The Levite tells everyone his story (leaving out the part about how he gave his concubine to the mob to do with as they pleased), explaining the mysterious rotting body part messages that brought everyone in Israel together. 20:4-6
485. After the Benjamites refuse to turn over the men from Gibeah (the town that wanted to have sex with the Levite but settled for his concubine instead), the Israelites asked God which tribe should go to war with them. God said the tribe of Judah should go first. So Judah goes to war, but the Benjamites with their sharp shooting lefties kill 22,000 Israelites. 20:18-21
486. After 22,000 Israelites were killed by the Benjamites, they cry all day before the Lord. Then they ask God (again) if they should go to war against Benjamin. God said yes, so they try it again, and another 18,000 Israelites are killed. 20:23-25
487. Once again all of the Israelites sit and weep before God, and ask again (for the third time) if they should attack the Benjamites. God give them his usual answer: Attack. This time he promises (he was just kidding the last couple times) that he "will deliver them into thine hand." 20:26-28
488. God helps the Israelites kill 25,100 Benjamites. 20:35
489. The Israelites killed everyone in the city with the edge of the sword. 20:37
490. Another 25,000 Benjamites are killed by the God-assisted Israelites. 20:44-46
491. The Israelites finish their massacre of the Benjamites by killing all the men, animals, and everything they could find in every Benjamite city. Then they burned the cities to the ground. (In this way God helped the Israelites make everything better after the rape and dismemberment of the concubine.) 20:48
492. Here's what the Israelites decide to do. They will go and kill everyone in Jabeshgilead except for the virgin women and give them to the 600 surviving Benjamites. 21:11
Ruth (None)
1 Samuel
493. "The Lord killeth ..." -- every chance he gets. 2:6, 2:25
494. "The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them." If God doesn't like you, he'll send a thunderstorm your way to break your body into little pieces. 2:10
495. "Because the LORD would slay them."
Eli's sons didn't listen to him, because God had already decided to kill them. (Which he does in 1 Sam.4:11.) 2:25
496. "A man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD ... I will cut off thine arm... There shall not be an old man in thine house for ever ... I shall ... consume thine eyes and ... grieve thine heart."
A "man of God" tells Eli that God will "consume his eyes" and "grieve his heart" and make sure that all of his decendants will die young" because of the stuff his sons did. 2:27-32
497. "And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them."
God says he'll kill his two sons as a sign to him. (Just ot remind him of the nasty things he plans to do to him and his descendants to punish him for what his sons did.) 2:34
498. God will punish Eli's descendants forever for the sins of Eli's sons. 3:12-13
499. "The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain."
God killed Eli's sons as he promised to do. (See 2:25 and 34) 4:11
500. God smites the people of Ashdod with hemorrhoids "in their secret parts." 5:6-12
501. God kills 50,070 men for looking into the ark. "And the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter." 6:19
502. "And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD." 7:9
503. The LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel." 7:10-11
504. "And the spirit of God came upon Saul ... and he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coast of Israel." People do the darnedest things when the spirit of God comes upon them! 11:6-7
505. "Saul ... slew the Ammorites unto the heat of the day." Then he took a little break. After all, killing is hard work. 11:11
506. To day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel."
God saved the Israelites by slaughtering the Ammonites. 11:13
507. "Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering." 13:9
508. God delivers the Philistines into Jonathan's hand. And his very "first slaughter ... was about twenty men." Not bad for a first slaughter. 14:12

Just a few!! :bugeye:

 

[Dywyddyr]

What was the point in posting all of that?
I certainly didn't read it, and I doubt many (any) other people will.