Why did god command the israelities to kill babies and animals in 1st samuel?

[SaviorSelf]

What did babies do? And camels? And who among you can find fault among the donkeys?  :'(

sorry I own donkeys so kinda emotional right now

 

[BandGuy]

Why does SS think he is more Holy, wise and moral than God Himself?  Whose sin did SS ever willingly hang on a cross and die for?

 

[Darkwing Duck]

Why does SS think he is more Holy, wise and moral than God Himself?  Whose sin did SS ever willingly hang on a cross and die for?

What a cop-out.

If you don't know the answer then just admit it.

Edit: Okay so now I've read some other threads and obviously SaviourSelf is a troll or a child or something. But I still want an answer to the question posed in this thread.

 

[BandGuy]

Why does SS think he is more Holy, wise and moral than God Himself?  Whose sin did SS ever willingly hang on a cross and die for?

What a cop-out.

If you don't know the answer then just admit it.

Edit: Okay so now I've read some other threads and obviously SaviourSelf is a troll or a child or something. But I still want an answer to the question posed in this thread.

I don't need to know the answer, because the question is irrelevant, stupid and based on the premise that we know better than God and that we are at the very least, on an equal moral plane with the Almighty.  Neither premise is true or rational.

 

[Holy Mole]

What did babies do? And camels? And who among you can find fault among the donkeys?  :'(

sorry I own donkeys so kinda emotional right now

"..who among you can find fault among the donkeys?"

The donkeys were acting like a bunch of asses.

"Why did god..."

So that foolish atheists would have an excuse to hold onto their foolishness and justify ignoring the general revelation to the contrary.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

Why does SS think he is more Holy, wise and moral than God Himself?  Whose sin did SS ever willingly hang on a cross and die for?

What a cop-out.

If you don't know the answer then just admit it.

Edit: Okay so now I've read some other threads and obviously SaviourSelf is a troll or a child or something. But I still want an answer to the question posed in this thread.

I don't need to know the answer, because the question is irrelevant, stupid and based on the premise that we know better than God and that we are at the very least, on an equal moral plane with the Almighty. Neither premise is true or rational.

All questions posed by truth-seekers would fall into this category. Is this seriously how you would answer someone coming to you and seeking to know more about God???

If an unsaved friend asks me the question posed by this thread Holy Mole and BandGuy expect me to evade the question at best and act like an a@@hole at worst.

 

[BandGuy]

Why does SS think he is more Holy, wise and moral than God Himself?  Whose sin did SS ever willingly hang on a cross and die for?

What a cop-out.

If you don't know the answer then just admit it.

Edit: Okay so now I've read some other threads and obviously SaviourSelf is a troll or a child or something. But I still want an answer to the question posed in this thread.

I don't need to know the answer, because the question is irrelevant, stupid and based on the premise that we know better than God and that we are at the very least, on an equal moral plane with the Almighty. Neither premise is true or rational.

All questions posed by truth-seekers would fall into this category. Is this seriously how you would answer someone coming to you and seeking to know more about God???

No.  This is how I chose to answer a troll who was mocking the righteousness of God.  But, honestly, yes, the question is based on a false premise, which renders it dishonest from the start.  Why is it important for you to know the answer to this question?

 

[Holy Mole]

Why does SS think he is more Holy, wise and moral than God Himself?  Whose sin did SS ever willingly hang on a cross and die for?

What a cop-out.

If you don't know the answer then just admit it.

Edit: Okay so now I've read some other threads and obviously SaviourSelf is a troll or a child or something. But I still want an answer to the question posed in this thread.

I don't need to know the answer, because the question is irrelevant, stupid and based on the premise that we know better than God and that we are at the very least, on an equal moral plane with the Almighty. Neither premise is true or rational.

All questions posed by truth-seekers would fall into this category. Is this seriously how you would answer someone coming to you and seeking to know more about God???

If an unsaved friend asks me the question posed by this thread Holy Mole and BandGuy expect me to evade the question at best and act like an a@@hole at worst.

"All questions"?

Not ALL questions need answers and at least 4 times in scripture we are warned as below:

Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Why don't you give the answer a try?

 

[biscuit1953]

The very clear and direct answer is to purify the land.

Leviticus 20:22, 23 -  “You are to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.  You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them.

Second of all, God proclaimed the death sentence on the entire human race.  Instead of judging God, we had better judge ourselves and realize we have all broken the Law of God. 

Third.  We are not under the Old Testament nor are we commanded to carry out such orders.  The following explains it all.

"All who, without commission from God, dare to execute private revenge, and who, from ambition, covetousness, or resentment wage war and desolate kingdoms, must one day answer for it.  But if God, instead of sending an earthquake, a pestilence, or a famine, be pleased to authorize and command any people to avenge his cause, such a commission surely is just and right.  The Israelites could show such a commission, though no persons now can do so.  Their wars were begun and carried on expressly by Divine direction, and they were enabled to conquer by miracles.  Unless it can be proved that the wicked Canaanites did not deserve their doom, objectors only prove their dislike to God, and their love to his enemies.  Man makes light of the evil of sin, but God abhors it.  This explains the terrible executions of the nations which had filled the measure of their sins."  Matthew Henry

 

[Sherryh]

Did Angel make it over here with a new name? Please don't fill our forum with stupid questions....

 

[Ransom]

What did babies do?

Grow up and seek vengeance.

And camels? And who among you can find fault among the donkeys?

God didn't want the Israelites mingling their own property with that of the pagans - or doing exactly what Saul tried to do: offer unclean sacrifices.

 

[lnf]

Ransom, you hit the nail on the head.  "Grow up and seek vengeance." 

We see this in the life of Moses.  After he found out that he was an Israelite by birth, he killed an Egyptian oppressor of "his people".  He no longer identified himself as a member of Pharaoh's family...the only family he had ever known.