Conserative Morality wrote:Fascist Russian Empire wrote:With regards to Leviticus, yes, it's true that the Torah commands the death penalty for "lying with man as if woman," committing acts of blasphemy, incest and certain other offenses. It doesn't command people to actively seek out non-believers and kill them; it commands that those who spread lies about Judaism be killed, and those who commit certain sexual offenses be killed. It doesn't command the murder of innocents, like the Qu'ran does.
With regard to Numbers, it is more of a historical account than anything, not part of the Old Law, but even if you consider it to be a call to violence, it isn't commanding the murder of all non-believers, it's talking about the destruction of the Canaanites, an enemy of the Israelites; it's not talking about innocent people.
With regards to Deuteronomy, chapter two, it, again, is talking about the tribes that were enemies of the Israelites, such as the Canaanites, not innocent people; it's a moot point. With regards to Deuteronomy, chapter twenty two, yes, it commands that Israelites who commit adultery be killed. Note how I say Israelites who commit adultery; the chapter specifically states "you must purge the evil from among you," and "you must purge the evil from Israel," it doesn't command people to hunt down adulterers to the ends of the earth. It specifically bans adultery only among the Israelites and punishes it by death, not commanding all followers of God to kill them, and this law is no longer relevant in Christianity because the New Law explicitly bans killing anyone and the New Law supercedes the Old Law.
So, no, none of these things prove that the Torah demands the killing of innocents, and even if they did, the New Law supercedes the Old Law and the New Law bans violence of any kind, as can be seen in the Book of Matthew.
Wow, nice genocide apologism. Good going. I'm sure those Canaanite children were super guilty.
God created them. Thus, he has the authority to do what he wants with them.



