Did God really want King Saul to KILL?

[Daniel_Lysinger]

Upon reading all the possible explanations of why God would order innocent babys killed, I find them all lacking. Simply deciding that it is allegorical is nonsense (as mentioned above). If I wanted, I could interpret John 6 as allegorical simply because I didn’t like it.

It is rather embarrassing that the book to which I currently use as a founding point of my religion has stuff that I had hoped only the Qu’ran would have. Also, just because it happened thousands of years ago doesn’t justify God ordering his people to kill everything. If I had been Jewish at that time, I would have refused (since I am not bound to obey a command that tells me to sin) and gotten punished… for what? How can one possibly believe that the Bible is infallible when it contains such absurd notions?

This is very much confusing.

 

[goout]

Upon reading all the possible explanations of why God would order innocent babys killed, I find them all lacking. Simply deciding that it is allegorical is nonsense (as mentioned above). If I wanted, I could interpret John 6 as allegorical simply because I didn’t like it.

It is rather embarrassing that the book to which I currently use as a founding point of my religion has stuff that I had hoped only the Qu’ran would have. Also, just because it happened thousands of years ago doesn’t justify God ordering his people to kill everything. If I had been Jewish at that time, I would have refused (since I am not bound to obey a command that tells me to sin) and gotten punished… for what? How can one possibly believe that the Bible is infallible when it contains such absurd notions?

This is very much confusing.

Your sense that God would not command murder is good sense.
If that makes sense in light of Jesus Christ, then you interpret the passage in that light. Scripture is always read in light of Jesus Christ, who is “the ultimate hermeneutical key”.
Read in that light, the passage must have some sense other than the literalist one that “God literally commanded murder…”