Paradise - Please have a read at 1Sam.15 for just one example of what I am talking about.
Would you be obedient to the god and father of your lord Jesus christ and murder all of the infants in an unprovoked attack in cold blood?
Saul was rejected for showing mercy and not committing genocide with sufficient thoroughness. Remember these men, women and children were to be murdered for something their ancestors did 400 years previously.
Would you have obeyed Jesus' god?
Here is a description of the narrative from a previous thread called "Soldiers of Jah"...
The nation has been settled in the Promised Land for about 400 years. Your parents have often told you the old stories about the exploits of your ancestors who fought under Moses and Joshua and conquered the land. Israel has its first king now and you are proud to be a soldier in Saul’s army just like your forebears. Mostly your battles are defending the borders of Israel from hostile neighbours but then one day right out the blue you receive a strange instruction. You are ordered to muster at a town called Telaim, when you arrive you see that there are 200,000 foot soldiers as well as another 10,000 from the tribe of Judah. Something big must be happening.
Samuel addresses the troops and tells them he has had a word from Yahweh. Four centuries ago when your forefathers were leaving captivity in Egypt the Amalekites had attacked them in the desert at Rephidim. Joshua defeated them but not without a number of Israelite casualties. Now all these centuries and many generations later, Samuel says that God wants revenge on the descendants of those Amalekites.
Then comes the order you were dreading, “Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys”.
So what do you hope you would have the courage to do?
Faithfully carry out God’s command through Samuel, or refuse to follow orders?
