How to murder children: bible style

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the image is kinda self explanatory, i just wanna see all your thoughts for this, if this is true or was there a good reason why this occurred?
 
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the image is kinda self explanatory, i just wanna see all your thoughts for this, if this is true or was there a good reason why this occurred?
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There’s a whole series of scripture passages referenced.
Can you narrow this down to a specific question?

Are you asking the ages old question: “how can the scriptures detail cruelty if God is love?”

The answer simply is that Scriptures detail the whole range of human experience, and that includes cruelty. That doesn’t mean God condones cruelty.

The Catholic Church does not understand Inspiration like the fundamentalists do.
 
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Let’s take a look at one of them, Matthew 18:6:
“18:6 But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
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It’s not at all talking about killing children. And it’s not saying that people who lead children away from Christ should be drowned. It’s talking about the gravity and severity of it.

Cherry picked Bible quotes that ignore the context they’re written in are exactly that. The graphic is ignorant of Scripture.
 
Well to start with, the first, “Drown them”. The actual quote refers to those who HURT CHILDREN and says that it would be better for the abusers, the ones who hurt little children to be drowned, i.e., it would be better to die than to hurt a child.

If the very first supposed “murder children bible style Turns out not to refer to drowning children at all. . .something that can be easily ascertained from simply reading the text itself—why would you trust it, or anything else??
 
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the image is kinda self explanatory, i just wanna see all your thoughts for this, if this is true or was there a good reason why this occurred?
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For a start your first example Matthew 18:6 is NOT about murdering children. You obviously have not read that verse.
It says anyone who scandalises children it would be better if they (the people scandalising children) were drowned.

Matthew 19:29 is also NOT about murdering children. If you think it is please explain.
 
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It reminds me of the inspirational Bible calendar that quotes Luke 4:7 as an inspirational Bible quote.
 
The second part is Lamentations 2:20
where it states:
Look, O LORD ! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself!
Lamentations 2:20 GNBDK

so when it says “Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved!” is that a punishment of some sort?
 
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The second part is Lamentations 2:20
where it states:
Look, O LORD ! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself!
Lamentations 2:20 GNBDK

so when it says “Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved!” is that a punishment of some sort?
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You didn’t answer my question. You quoted two verses in Matthew. Please tell me how you think they are about murdering children!

By the way Lamentations 2:20 does NOT say women are eating the bodies of their children. The context is about starving people and the verse you refer to is a question, “should women eat their offspring”?. It does not say they ate their offspring.

So far that is 3 out of 3 you have got wrong.
 
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The second part is Lamentations 2:20
where it states:
Look, O LORD ! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself!
Lamentations 2:20 GNBDK

so when it says “Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved!” is that a punishment of some sort?
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The book of Lamentations is a series of poems about the invasion of the Babylonians and the defeat of Israel. This is a poem bemoaning the situation of a war where hunger and famine come in its wake. It’s a rhetorical question about how bad things are in the worn torn city. It’s a literary device.

That translation isn’t very good, it’s actually a question “must the women eat their own children…”. In other words, “when will the famine be over?”
 
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Yes, there are errors in the image (which I assume was not created by OP), but does anyone care to actually engage on the topic of why God sometimes orders the death of innocents, or carries out that sentence Himself? I think it is an issue worth discussing.
 
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the image is kinda self explanatory, i just wanna see all your thoughts for this, if this is true or was there a good reason why this occurred?
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You don’t seem to have read the Bible passages listed, to see if they say what is claimed in this graphic. That would be an excellent place to start.
 
Fake news. Read the passages. Clearly compiled by an anti-Theist.
 
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Matthew 18:6? Really?

My thought is that when someone’s first claim gets such a simple passage so badly wrong, I don’t need to waste my time reading any further.
 
Same, except the problem is that some will see this little image, take in its lies, and believe them on face value, which could destroy or damage someone’s faith. So it does deserve rebuke. Not all have critical thinking skills, these things can do real damage.
 
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“Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved!”
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No, it is just a statement of what was happening. Women were doing that at that time due to their city being besieged and starvation. The biblical author sees their plight as a punishment, which it may or not have been, that is up for debate. However God never commanded anyone to eat their children, that was something they were doing of their own free will, and the author is simply acknowledging that reality and lamenting it to God. The biblical author sees it as an evil, obviously.
 
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Saw the question and instantly thought “let me get my can of worms to pop open”
 
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