Is murder of non-believers blessed by God?

God has blessed certain wars and battles throughout the Old Testament. I think that there is a distinction between killing in a war and murdering someone for selfish purposes. God spoke to these people and told them that their war was just. I have to wonder how many wars are going on today that God has given His blessing for...

This sort of thing is why I believe all religious books are dangerous, for a start no one knows who wrote these books and the translation of anything loses a certain amount of truth anyway in anything, there can only be one genuine book so who knows which one it is, they all interpret different things, i think they cause more trouble than they are worth, people should just live for today and love from the heart and listen to their inner voice and they can't go wrong...the books are not to be trusted...

i am sure that the verses you are quoting have a context to them as well. i am not believing in what you are saying till i read the context to this verse. similar tactics are used against Islam as well, by quoting such verses TOTALLY out of context. you should abstain from doing so.

Why do you speak like you are a christian and yet have no understanding of what it is you read? HUM,,, I guess you like takeing thing out of context, is this a comand of God that people should be doing this today? or was it a comand of Gad for the people of Isriel? Was it needed for them to do this so that they could become a nation? Have you ever compleatly read this book you like to find contraversy in? No you haven't.

I don't understand why people just cast every controversial verse in the Bible as "out of context." War was very much in context of the entire Old Testament!

Killing of non-believers is as old as history.And in the Old World religion was the rallying point. At least the religious books have been honest about some of them. Think of those that have gone unrecorded. People have done what and where their emotions or the expediency of the moment took them and put the stamp of God's permission on them so that there are no pangs of guilt. This is how one needs to understand the conduct of war in the Old World. The cuases for the same could be just survival and nothing more. The one thing good about the Exodus is one race that was in enslavement came out of it, if they want to say it, by the Design of God. The Egyptians were at the time following idolatory, so in order to create a justifiable alternative, one could have moved out of idolatory. With some of them defaulting on the main separatist cause it must have been ethnic cleansing of dissent, that has been sanctified as the Will of God, so that the new found freedom is not lost. Today with the advent and advancement of learning, we are more concerned about classifyng genocides as some historic event letting religion, have nothing to do with it.

I believe that the Bible is a history and writings that is someone's views so I do not think that God condones murders if you just take that one verse and read it by itself. You have to take what God said and what has happened before that passage to understand what God said and why he said it. In think that is just what we are doing to protect our county in times of war. I do not like the idea or war but sometimes we have to "strap a sword our sides and each kill our brother and friend" to protect our country. It is not saying go on a mass killing spree and murder your neighbors for no good reason.

Since this is Old Testament, it's one of many passages that cause people to think of us Jews as evil and murderous. Just about everyone accepts that, in Biblical times, societies were emerging, and people were trying to make places for their communities. This required behavior that is not acceptable anymore. It's never OK to kill anyone! The ten comandments supercede this and any other story from the Bible, and The shalt not kill! Many Bible stories are metaphorical, and this one is, too, especially in today's world.

Heavens no! I think you are taking that out of context. God would never condone such a thing. This was a lesson wasn't it? God would never have this done.

No, murder itself is not accepted by god. period.

Killing is never blessed by God. Religion in the old testament is political at the same time. They use religion to campaign for war and conquer new territories. Today, the same is true. Since religion and ideals lie in the heart and minds of everyman, people use them as tools to campaign for conquest. In countries where religion is still part of politics, politicians use it to rouse the people to fight for them. In countries where the separation of church and state is followed, they use ideals such as democracy to campaign for war and conquest. Regardless of whether you use religion or democracy as an excuse, they never justify the atrocities committed in their name.

No way. We all are so different, and this is the way how God wanted it to be. God want that both believers and non-believers exist in this world. It is wrong perception of the world, when believers starts to think that they have a power to decide: who live and who: don`t. Murder is not and can not be accepted by non of us. Not God, not believers, not non believers. Even eating an animal (fish, cow, lamb) at the dinner can be considered to be a murder. Do You explain this murder of animal like: that lamb can not belive in God so I has all right to kill it? No way! this is why people pray before meal: thank You for the food and water You gaved to us and please forgive us for taking this out of the Nature, becaue it is needed to keep up our existence.

Seeing that the bible also describes the LORD as a God of love, I do not see why He would honor murder. Fighting an enemy is entirely different from just random killing. Many issues addressed in the Old Testament differ from those in the New Testament, therefore, their outcomes differ . When Jesus came to earth, you notice a shift in the way that most situations were handled as well.

I think that line does not mean you have been blessed to kill , but that you have been blessed with the coming of christ and that it is now time for the killings to stop.

Depends on which religious texts you follow. If you're Christian, Christ tells us not to judge others; including non-believers.

God of Israel? how many gods do we have? God is love, religion is created by people and every religion has dangerous part for people who will take it as is written. Bible is very controversial book, with too many correction made with false translation from the original. I don't look at bible as the ultimate true. I don't trust any religion.