Christians and Their Homework!

[Jenny A]

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


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.

Really? All of Canaanite was so wicked that everyone right down to babies needed execution? And just what was the "wickedness" of the Canaanites? This mass killing of people who committed unspecified crimes is pretty normative Bibically speaking. Everyone but Noah and his family for example. So is killing babies for the crimes of thier parents. Didn't David lose a child due to own adultery? And then there are all of those Egyption first born sons many of whom had to be way too young to enslave anyone. Young people in Sodom and Gamorah too. Doesn't sound remotely just to me. I can't imagine a just genocide.