JayRob, there are a few verses that I must share with you because it's an eye opener in the way Christ treats other races. Pay close attention to the way Christ and the disciples treat the woman, and watch her response to Christ. My eyes always tear up after reading her response followed by Christ blessing the gentile woman.
I know it's off topic, however I felt moved to share this with you.
Matthew 15:21-28
I understand that RB, but supposedly that same "loving" God was the God of the Old Testament. Here are some of the many, many ways he supposedly treated and commanded his people to treat other people.....
--God drowns the whole earth.
In Genesis 7:21–23, God drowns the entire population of the earth: men, women, children, and fetuses. Only a single family survives. In Matthew 24:37–42, gentle Jesus approves of this genocide and plans to repeat it when he returns.
--God kills half a million people.
In 2 Chronicles 13:15–18, God helps the men of Judah kill 500,000 of their fellow Israelites.
--God slaughters all Egyptian firstborn.
In Exodus 12:29, God kills all Egyptian firstborn children and cattle because their king was stubborn.
--God kills 14,000 people for complaining that God keeps killing them.
In Numbers 16:41–49, the Israelites complain that God is killing too many of them. So, God sends a plague that kills 14,000 more of them. (WOW!!):lol::shame:
--Genocide after genocide after genocide.
In Joshua 6:20–21, God helps the Israelites destroy Jericho, killing “men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.”
In Deuteronomy 2:32–35, God has the Israelites
kill everyone in Heshbon, including children, and plunder the country. In Deuteronomy 3:3–7, God has the Israelites do the same to the people of Bashan.
In Numbers 31:7–18, the Israelites
kill all the Midianites except for the virgins, whom they take as spoils of war. In 1 Samuel 15:1–9, God tells the Israelites to
kill all the Amalekites—men, women, children, infants, and their cattle—for something the Amalekites' ancestors had done 400 years ago.
--God kills 50,000 people for curiosity.
In 1 Samuel 6:19, God kills 50,000 men for peeking into the ark of the covenant.
--God has 42 children mauled by bears.
In 2 Kings 2:23–24, some kids tease the prophet Elisha, and God sends bears to maul them.
--A tribe slaughtered and their virgins raped for not showing up at roll call.
In Judges 21:1–23, a tribe of Israelites misses roll call, so the other Israelites kill them all except for the virgins, which they take for themselves. Still not happy, they hide in vineyards and pounce on dancing women from Shiloh to take them for themselves.
--Child sacrifice.
In Judges 11:30–39, Jephthah burns his daughter alive as a sacrificial offering for God’s favor in killing the Ammonites.
--God helps Samson kill 30 men because he lost a bet.
In Judges 14:11–19, Samson loses a bet for 30 sets of clothes. The spirit of God comes upon him and he kills 30 men to steal their clothes and pay off the debt.
--God demands you kill your wife and children for worshipping other gods.
In Deuteronomy 13:6–10, God commands that you must kill your wife, children, brother, and friend if they worship other gods.
--God kills a man for not impregnating his brother's wife.
In Genesis 38:9–10, God kills a man for refusing to impregnate his brother's wife.
--God threatens forced cannibalism.
In Leviticus 26:27–29 and Jeremiah 19:9, God threatens to punish the Israelites by making them eat their own children.
LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST.....
--The coming slaughter.
According to Revelation 9:7–19, God’s got more evil coming. God will make horse-like locusts with human heads and scorpion tails, who torture people for 5 months. Then some angels will kill a third of the earth's population.
If he came today, that would be 2 billion people.
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RB, I'll be waiting on your excuses to justify why these deaths happened, mostly of
innocent women and children who did nothing to no one, but were ordered to be killed.
A truly loving God would never act in such a way. This seems to be the works and writings of men, claiming that some God did all of this, but I don't believe that a loving Creator would act in such a barbaric way.