Not for the first time have I seen The Old Testament God described as a God with a ‘dark side’. He is after all responsible for floods, plagues, famines and sometimes just outright genocide. However, according to traditional believers, it’s not so much the case that the Old Testament God is ‘trigger happy’ but that this more violent side is just another part of God, who like us, is multifaceted. Stephen Fry refers to God as ‘mean-minded’, ‘monstrous’ and even as a ‘maniac’ – blasphemous words indeed, but ones that do reflect the opinion those might have on a deity that destroys cities, spreads famine and diseases and at one point drowns the entire world. However, if we were to consult with the traditional believer, they might say that these actions are justified and that these acts are not ‘random vindictiveness’, but rather punishments owed to those who have done wrong.
On that note, in today’s episode, we’ll be analysing each and every time God snuffs someone out of existence and hopefully, we’ll have a more informed sense of what God’s final kill count looks like by the end of Genesis.
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0:00 Intro
1:47 Pre-Flood Era
6:34 Sodom & Gomorrah
9:24 Lot’s Wife
9:59 Judah’s Sons
12:01 Famine In Egypt
14:23 Conclusion
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– Old Testament
– The Flood
– Sodom and Gomorrah
– Sons of Judah
– Famine In Egypt
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All I heard was, "God kills men for pulling out😢!"
The Christian God is actually not the same as the Old Testament god. This is made clear in the Gnostic scriptures which were banned by a committee who decided what should be in the bible and what should not. Propaganda and censoring is not a new thing.
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It the say god some christian just can't accept the jesus could kill
Yes God did kill a lot of people in the OT, but it was always as a form of capital punishment for wickedness, and since people didn't have the atonement of Christ to cover them from the righteous anger of God, capital punishment happened a lot back in OT times. Sodom and Gomorrah is commonly used as an example to try to claim that God is "fickle" or " a mass murderer", but God is a Judge, and a righteous one, and He had to try the case of a city where almost everyone except for less than ten people were engaging in extremely explicit behavior immorally and worshipping idols.