Christians, is this LOVING to you?

Question

Ezekiel 5: 10

"Therefore in your midst fathers will EAT their children, and children will eat their fathers. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds."

Leviticus 26: 29

"You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters."

Numbers 13:33

"Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the desert.

Deuteronomy 5:9

"You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me"

Is this supposed to be God's word? Is this "loving"?

A jealous, angry God that talks about cannibalism?

Answer 1

You ask this of Christians, yet Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are from the Torah - the five books of Moses. So far as I know Moses was not a Christian. Why don't you ask Jews the same question?

Answer 2

Easy, big fella! Easy!

You're right, these are not the actions of a loving deity. You will read all sorts of justifications for these things in this thread and others, but it's encouraging that you see them as the empty rationalizations they really are.  

Answer 3

Actually, yes. Those are all examples of God giving strong warnings of the consequences of falling away from Him. God didn't want the Israelites to suffer those consequences and warned them. Would you consider it unloving of me to say, "Son, I know the street in front of our house seems like the perfect place to play basketball but you can't do it. If you do a car will hit you and you will be horribly maimed or die."? There's no real difference. God isn't saying "I will make you do these things." He is saying, "These things will happen if you don't guard against them."

Answer 4

Amazing what the Christians believe and worship!

Truly sickening!

How can they not see that the bible is the word of sheep herders, not of any divine mind.

It is really disturbing!

Answer 5

Don't know??

Tell us!

God love you!

Answer 6

Aww, another little one who thinks they KNOW what they are talking about !! *sigh*.... This has been answered , ohhhh, lets see, about a million times in here.... Each and every time it gets explained and ya know what happens ?? You got it ! An answer is picked by some one who does NOT know what they are talking about .. You do not want an answer at all do you ? So, I will leave you with your ignorance of Gods word and what it all means..... and just to point out a little something here : I know that God is not JUST love ! I KNOW He is jealous and I also KNOW why ! go in peace..... God bless

Answer 7

these commandments were for the Jews only and the Jews love to obey God's commandments .the ancestors of the non-Jews never had any problem with these commandments at all, they were completely irrelevant to them, they didn't even know about them back then. now why your are  offended by them? what is the relation between these commandments and you or the society we are living in today?

Answer 8

    You quoted the Bible well.  You did however, come to the Wrong conclusion.  If you will take a moment and look at what you have written you will notice that these come from the books of the Old Testement.  The Old Testement was of times before the days of Jesus Christ and it was after his death and Resurrection that the New Testement was written.

    You need to see what was going on in those days, what the people were like and to WHOM these passages were written to.  These passages were written to the Jew, the Israelites, God's chosen people.  You need to understand that they were defiant to God and the Covenants that were made between God and them.  If you look closely, you will notice that they were continually breaking these Covenants, worshiping false Gods, defiling themselves and others around them, thusly the harsh punishments.

    Can you see that if they had only followed the Lord God and had done the things they had promised, they wouldn't have suffered so much, but they chose otherwise too often.  It is a fact.....don't make a VOW to God......and then reneg.  This includes a Marriage Vow, for instance.

Anyways.....I again say, that those punishments were because the people of the times were bad, easy at getting themselves in trouble.

But.....guess what???  Today we aren't any better!!!  But then again, we aren't the children of Israel either, we are Greeks.  We are Gentiles, so the punishments for us are way differant now.  Still I wouldn't want to anger my Lord at anything I do either.  Not a good thing to make God made at you, know aht I mean???