How Many Has God Killed?

A light-hearted (yet sickening) look at the number of deaths God ordained in the Bible. These stats are based on Steve Wells' research which can be found here:
http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2010/04/drunk-with-blood-gods-killing...

I don't necessarily agree with every account in his research, as a couple examples are rather ambiguous. However, events like the Flood more than make up for any discrepancies in this extremely conservative 2.6 million figure.

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[Greydjinn]

Believe or not it is interesting to tally up these numbers from the book considered holy but often blindly by its followers.....and ps....Satan killed those in book of Job BUT keep in mind that God gave him express permission so you have to split those I think.

[Discern4]

@Greydjinn Yeah, but I felt bad for Satan. He's built up such an evil reputation that I had to throw the guy a few sympathy points.

[gallantentry]

There are consequences to our actions, if it were not so, we would be in a state of chaos. Justice often requires death.

If you had a child that was brutally murdered by someone, would justice be served if the the judge told that man he could go free with no consequences? Not!

Another vain attempt to make God look bad when the death of those men was just as they all were sinful. As a believer who knows the forgiveness God has extended to all man, anything this side of hell is grace.

[Discern4]

@gallantentry Many of these scriptures have God killing people without warning and no chance of repentance. Including the slaughter of women and children. Is that "just"? If God knew they'd never repent, why did He give them lives and families in the first place if He planned to massacre them? How is that consistent with a loving, merciful God? If you were God, would you kill millions of people? Or would you, in your wisdom, offer them a chance to repent or give some alternative besides death?

[gallantentry]

@Discern4 They would not have ever repented and God knew this. As He can see into the future. God is just when he decides to remove someone or people out of the way.

When children die, they go to heaven and are in His presence. They have perfect peace. The women were set in their ways and God knew their ways would have crept into His people's hearts. He killed to protect His people just as you would kill to protect yours.

[Discern4]

@gallantentry You're making very poor excuses for a murderous God. An omniscient loving God would not need to kill. In fact, an omniscient God would not burn with anger, because he would've seen it coming a mile away. Moses had to calm God down because his anger burned against the israelites. An all-knowing God would've seen their 'sin' coming a mile away and not be surprised. God was ready to kill them in a flash of anger, but Moses had to beg him to change his mind. Some omniscience!

[Discern4]

@truckcompany Yeah, and here's something else: In Exodus, God starts with about 1 million Hebrews/Israelites including women and children (Exodus 12:37), but by the time 1 Kings is written (1 Kings 20:15), there's only 7,000 Israelites remaining! God annihilated them! They would've been safer if they were not "under God's protection"!

[MrJJMurray]

alrite God has killed many but God made us so he has the right to kill us whenever he wants and those killings were just because the people he killed were against him. Jesus however was because of his love for us so our sins can be cleansed by simply repenting

[Cootabux]

God, being the true tyrant that he was...when jesus was crucified, god snuck in the tomb, raised him from the dead, then let him go home with him. He didn't do that for Job's sons and daughters, nor any of the other millions he murdered...what a one-way Ass Hat.

[allaboutmath]

Its disgusting to see people actually taking seriously what is written in the books of the bible that have been "accepted" as "truth" by vote in a human council. One of the hideous contradictions in the bible is that god himself gives a commandment saying that you are not allowed to kill, but at the same time the bible is full of examples where god himself kills or orders other people to kill, pillage and destroy. How hypocrite can you be and not realize this insane madness and stupidity.

[sree1010]

@gallantentry how can u say that killing of innocent women and children in lakhs is punishment to sins? Be open minded and admit that Bible is a text of violence and Jehovah is actually worse than Satan. Stop fearing demonic Gods who are worse than Satans.

I think actual Satan was Jehovah and it was his rule that the Christians were carrying out throughout history in innumerable wars and massacres in World Wars, Hitler to Jews, in the colonies of Europe, to Red Indians everywhere..

[caccycacman]

@assalane Are you athietist?

[assalane]

@caccycacman Of course, why wouldn't I? The only thing that I'd change is my examples. My discourse will stay the same. Actually I know even more about Islam than I do Christianity.

[caccycacman]

None!!

[caccycacman]

@assalane Will you say the same about Islam?

[assalane]

@caccycacman yeah I know if you gather sticks on sundays you should be killed, and I know that kids should get stoned to death if they disobey their parents, as per biblical rule.

Again you won't convince anyone with this rotten line of logic.

But, you know, the best thing about a secular society is that we were able to shun all those bullshit rules for humanistic rules. Rules that were thought over and garanty a maximum of liberty. Something your religion never achieved.

[caccycacman]

@assalane There are rules to life and if you break the rules, you have to suffer the consequences. To everything there is a bad side but there is also a good side and everyone can choose. I think people want their cake and eat it too.