Deuteronomy 25
19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
Once again. This is a command directly from God, applicable to a specific circumstance and not some general command applicable to all non-Jews anywhere. Secondly, research exactly who Amalek was and research the circumstance to which you so ignorantly refer here.
Well here's what one of the great Jewish Rabbis, Maimonides, had to say about that:
Maimonides was not God, unlike the God Who gave the command to which you have referred. Moreover, note how he says "One might think that this Commandment is not binding for all time,..." Of course one might think this. One might think this because it is clearly specific. One must severely twist the text, as we see here, to make it general. People do this, but the text yet stands against them-- in time to correct the error.
Now i don't know if you meant to throw the Jews in with the savage Muslims or the gentle Christians.
You ought to know by now...
Well there's no proof that God spoke to Moses, or that Moses even existed. You take this on faith, don't you?
DANG! You fokes really cannot think, and it is so friggin' frustrating to have to hold your friggin' hands! The point is, the text makes the claim, whether you accept it or not, that God spoke directly to Moses about a specific circumstance. That is completely different from the general commands we find in the Quran to muslims against non-muslims generally. Now do you friggin' got that? Cuz I ain't saying it friggin' again. Lawd!
If it weren't for the intense, pervasive and virulent anti-Semitism of the Church Fathers and of the Catholic church over centuries, the Holocaust couldn't have happened.
(sigh) The Church Fathers were just men. They were not God and they were not the friggin' Bible!
Germany was a very Christian nation, as was Russia, that allowed those atrocities to happen under Hitler and Stalin. (Both were seminary educated.)
Germany was filled with people who called themselves Christians. Only God (and the person themselves) knows who really is Christian. The Germans were not God and they were not the Bible. Moreover, it was because of Christians all over the world that Nazism was defeated. Indeed, many probable Christians even from America went to Germany to end Hitler's reign, and we have the thousands upon thousands of crosses on their graves to show it.
What makes your understanding of the Bible more legitimate than the The Church Father's, The Pope's, or Maimonides'?
The relevant text here is quite clear and that is why each time a Christian talks of war on behalf of the state, heathens ALWAYS quote the Scripture. They clearly understand the meaning of the text. They just don't have the faith to apply it.
Who's to say that a couple hundred years from now serious Christians won't be dismissing your understanding of the Bible and of God's will?
If the Lord tarries, they likely will do exactly this, and the Bible will still stand firmly, representing the truth to eventually call Christians back to it. This has ALWAYS been the case.
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