Anti- do you want to see if there is a possibility that there is sense in those verses- or are you just wanting to ridicule the Bible for reasons only you would know?
Sure, enlighten why it's acceptable to require genocide, with the express orders to show no mercy...
Explain why it's okay to punish a child for the sins of his father.
Tell us how you justify a god who tells his followers to 1. kill a girls family, 2. force her to marry him and have sex with him, and then 3. if the sex isn't good enough, divorce her unconditionaly leaving her homeless, without a family or friend, and without her virginity that she was saving all her life for the 'right man'.
If you have an answer then by all means, answer. But an ad hominin attack on the motives of the people who point out injustice hardly counts as an answer.
(When the opponent resorts to insults, you know you've won.)
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Oh and here's the quote from the watchtower:
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As a punishment for this sin Jehovah brought three days of pestilence that killed 70,000 Israelites. (2 Sam. 24:12-16) Was that unjust? Were 70,000 innocent people dying for the king’s error? The Bible plainly shows that we all are sinners deserving of death; it is only by God’s undeserved kindness that we live. (Rom. 3:23; 6:23; Lam. 3:22, 23) So those who died had no special "right" to life. Additionally, can any human today say for sure that those 70,000 were not guilty of some serious sin not mentioned in the historical record?
I highly reccomend you read the whole article if you happen to have the WT CD... they outright admit they don't know why the census was a sin, and the whole thing is an isult to humanity. Then they go on to explain how just god was in the past, so therefore he couldn't possibly do anything wrong now!
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One more thing... just something I was thinking of recently: remember when the Israelites built the golden calf? They did this WHILE the law against it was being made... so they couldn't have known it was a sin, since they didn't even have the rules yet. After several hundred years in egyptian captivity, and with no laws against it before that even, how the heck were they supposed to know NOT to build an idol? Where they just supposed to go without worshipping god for over a month? But they were punished for it anyway.
Kind of like choosing an 8:00 bedtime for your children at midnite, and then punishing them for being up 4 hours late while you made the decision... (Except with a death penalty of course.)
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(Deuteronomy 32:4) 4 The Rock, perfect is his activity, For all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness, with whom there is no injustice; Righteous and upright is he.
