(July 23, 2015 at 2:34 am)AtheistAspie Wrote: And yet the bible never identifies god as a liar and a murderer, despite the fact that he's wiped out thousands of people, including all the first born children of Egypt, and 185,000 sleeping Assyrian soldiers (2 Kings 19:35).
I guess you forgot that it was the Egyptians who slaughtered the children of the Hebrews first, not to mention the angel of death was to kill the firstborn of anyone, be it Hebrew or Egyptian if they failed to apply the token of blood to their door, This is an obvious foreshadowing, of the fate of those who fail to accept the blood of Christ as an atonement.
As for the assyrians.
http://www.bible-history.com/old-testame...rians.html
Quote:It was the Assyrians that destroyed the northern kingdom Israel under Shalmaneser IV who besieged Samaria and then died during the siege leaving Sargon II to finish the task and drag Israel into captivity. After defeating the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 B. C., the Assyrians carried away thousands of Israelites and resettled them in other parts of the Assyrian Empire. This was a blow from which the nation of Israel never recovered. The ten tribes that were taken to Assyria became the ten lost tribes, for they have never again emerged in world history.
Quote:Assyrians were great warriors. Most nations at that time period were looters, building their state by robbing other nations. Assyria was the most ferocious of them all. Their very name became a byword for cruelty and atrocity. They skinned their prisoners alive, and cut off various body parts to inspire terror in their enemies. There is records of Assyrian officials pulling out tongues and displaying mounds of human skulls all to bring about stark horror and wealthy tribute from surrounding nations. Nowhere are the pages of history more bloody than in the records of their wars.
Yeah, poor assyrians...
The fact that you guys make these kind of arguments proves what spirit you're of.
