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[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

“Today and henceforth, I shall fill the peoples under all heavens with fear and terror of you; whoever hears word of your approach will tremble and writhe in anguish because of you” (Deuteronomy 2:25)


“you become like us by circumcising all youmales. Then we will give you our daughters, taking yours for ourselves; and we will stay with you to make one nation.”


ANd after their forced circumcision...

“Now on the third day, when the men were still in pain, Jacob’s two sons Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and advanced unopposed against the town and slaughtered all the males. They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, removed Dinah from Shechem’s house and came away. When Jacob’s other sons came on the slain, they pillaged the town in reprisal for the dishonoring of their sister. They seized their flocks, cattle, donkeys, everything else in the town and in the countryside, and all their possessions. They took all their children and wives captive and looted everything to be found in the houses” (Genesis 34:1–29).


The Hebrews:

“captured all his towns and laid all these towns under the curse of destruction: men, women and children, we left no survivors except the livestock which we took as our booty, and the spoils of the captured towns” (Deuteronomy 2:34–35).

“And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem” (2 Samuel 12:31)

“And he brought forth the people that were therein, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes...

“you will put the whole male population to the sword. But the women, children, livestock and whatever the town contains by way of spoil, you may take for yourselves as booty. You will feed on the spoils of the enemies whom Yahweh your God has handed over to you.

“you must not spare the life of any living thing,” men and women, young and old, children and babies, and even livestock, “so that they may not teach you to do all the detestable things which they do to honor their gods” (Deuteronomy 20:13–18). So, in Jericho, “They enforced the curse of destruction on everyone in the city: men and women, young and old, including the oxen, the sheep and the donkeys, slaughtering them all” (Joshua 6:21)

The city of Ai met the same fate. Its inhabitants were all slaughtered, twelve thousand of them, “until not one was left alive and none to flee. [...] When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open ground, and in the desert where they had pursued them, and when every single one had fallen to the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and slaughtered its remaining, population” (8:22–25). Women were not spared. “For booty, Israel took only the cattle and the spoils of this town” (8:27). In the whole land, Joshua “left not one survivor and put every living thing under the curse of destruction, as Yahweh, god of Israel, had commanded” (10:40).


[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

these are all worth reading, but like always, it is best to use the commentary, for context is everything.

eg https://biblehub.com/commentaries/2_samuel/12-31.htm

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That is one verse, and it is still wrong. The other verses are clear cut, Yaweh is the destroyer. Whether that is good or not, is all up to interpretation but clearly the levitical clergy used pillaging, plunder and murder under the will of God. These verses are clear no matter how you interpret them. In 1946, we now read in the Revised Standard Version:

“And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them toil at the brickkilns.” And same in the Catholic New Jerusalem Bible.

Yes, politically correct, but improbable, since iron tools were never needed to make bricks—certainly not axes, picks and saws—but made deadly weapons that no victor in his right mind would distribute to the men he had just vanquished. After all, the war code was established by Yahweh.

The other verses are clear cut.

[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yaweh is the destroyer.

that is something a theosophist would say.

https://youtu.be/3a1I7FOBgcs?t=2231

even if we ignore the 'aliens crossbreeding with humans' theory, it is reasonable to think that people involved in sodomy, incest, pedophilia, cannibalism, bestiality (hence the killing of all the animals), idolatry and child sacrifice attracted the wrath of god.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

El Shaddai is another name for Yahweh and is mentioned in the bible many times to denote God as a destroyer which he is to an extent. Any religious person knows God destroyed all people during the flood, mythological or not. El Shaddai is translated "God, my destroyer." El Shaddai is the avenger of Israel, and anyone who harms Israel, "the Jewish people" at all, such as making them worship other Gods or intermarriage, etc., will experience the wrath of El Shaddai. Destruction can also come through acts of nature, enemies, animals, etc., and people in God's will can be pillaged, plundered and killed, women and children, in his name.

Don't have to be a theosophist, whoch I'm definitely not, to know this.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Jesus said your God was a murderer from the beginning.

So, I believe, many Jews listened to the levitical clergy who used their writing skills and power to trick the common jew into supporting the Zionist agenda and the murder of different people through God's alleged will. We could also reverse this role to explain the medianites and Egyptians.

I don't believe in the alien cross-breeding myth. What that story was meant to illustrate, was the intermingling and intermaraige among Jews with people who were not Jews such as the canannites. Most were not into sodomy, cannabilsm, bestiality, etc., but the levitical clergy and wealthy Jewish elites had to demonize a people, enemies or not, to keep the Jewish religion alive.

The wrath of God or, God my destroyer was simply used by Jews, and probably others who believed in different Gods to get a pass to murder others. Likewise, Christendom and the Catholics also misread Jesus's and the Apostles' words as reason to murder others, heretics. However, there was no misreading in the Old Testement, as Yahweh was a destroyer and possibly wealthy Jews and scribes wrote many of these verses as propganda for the levitical clergy. Most of these events such as the killing of 75,000, women and children, were myths.