Muder and Mayhem!

Let us speak of fear....There is much of that...and murder...and terrorism...and animal abuse... listed in the Old Testament.

First, consider the Flood.....What do you do if your children misbehave? Speaking as a "puppy Mom", I would suggest guiding them lovingly....not murdering them. But, that God was so fed up and out of patience that he drowned the whole kit and kabuddle, except for a few. If He lived today, he would be sent for anger management therapy....then tried for child abuse, and murder.

Leading the Israelites out of Egypt, during the Exodus, was really interesting. He sent every manner of plague down upon the heads of the Egyptians...Now God was someone who could teach us a thing or two about germ warfare.... See More

But, since that did no work he decided to send the "Angel of Death" to the eldest in all Egyptian households...from the eldest child to the eldest lamb, nothing was spared. It is still honoured as a Jewish holiday called "PASSOVER", because the "Angel of Death" passed over each Jewish home, and spared the lives of their children.

But, this angelic hit man must not have been omnipotent, because God cautioned the Israelites to put a dab of blood over the lintels of their doors...just so the Angel of Death could know that this as a good Jewish home, and not Egyptian....and not make a hit here.

So, after everyone got out of Egypt....(Moses was not permitted to see the Promised Land because he had offended God somehow)....God told Aaron to perform a ritual of thanks.

Aaron was Moses' brother, and the chief Priest. The ritual inluded the murder of lambs, and the smearing of blood upon Aaron's robes...and , of course, God found this to be very good.

(Even our 21st Century Vampiric Churches frown upon the sacrifice and death of innocents...what useful purpose can it serve? They therefore do not permit ritualistic blood sacrifice within their Temples.)

But, God wanted blood..."the smell was most pleasing" Quote. Unquote.

When Christians broke away from the Hebrew tradition, and claimed that Christ was now the Lamb, then , at least within the Christian Church, blood-letting did not have to occur on the Sabbath.....

If this had happened during modern times God would have to face the wrath of the Animal Liberation Front!