(November 4, 2023 at 8:05 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: I'm a veteran trained to a code of conduct that forbids the murder of Enemy Prisoners of War. Yet God commanded Saul to do just that in 1 Samuel chapter 15.
Since the law against murder can be set aside by a whim of the almighty it must be a ceremonial law rather than a moral law.
For believers to maintain it is a moral law, they must assert that morality itself is based on the whim of a particular being, and is not objective.
The law against murder wasn't set aside, because Mosaic law forbids only the shedding of innocent blood. And, since the Torah makes mention - multiple times - that sins can sometimes apply to entire groups instead of individuals, all of the Amalekites were guilty.
And the only POW killed by the Israelites was Agag, all of the others appear to have died in the battle. And Agag wasn't 'murdered'. He was executed for war crimes. It's all very consistent and horrific.
Boru
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