Christians and Their Homework!

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I grant God the authority, not only because I was created for the purpose of His glory, but also because He understands morality itself better than I ever could.

Yeah...your fucking god is a real moral paragon.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

 
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

1 Sam. 15, 2-3

What a scumbag.

Figures you would cite one of the very few passages in the entire biblical text which says something like this. As I said in another post, this command was issued specifically for a single event and not intended to be normative, for which reason later biblical revelation unanimously prohibits murder. The other thing you haven't mentioned is the fact that God is perfectly just. Sin is so evil that it perverts everything it touches. The Amalekites, like many other Canaanite tribes, had practiced all sorts of wickedness over and over again for an extended period before the Israelites even arrived. God used Israel to punish the group as a whole for its sins just as He later used the Babylonians to do the same with the Israelites when they practiced immorality and social injustice for centuries with no repentance. I'm afraid that's the best answer I can give in light of what Scripture teaches.