Bible Love
Mohamad Mostafa Nassar
Twitter@NassarMohamadMR

Love in the Bible
Note: In the Bible, words having to do with killing significantly outnumber words having to do with love.
GE 3:1-7, 22-24 God allows Adam and Eve to be deceived by the Serpent (the craftiest of all of Godโs wild creatures). They eat of the โTree of Knowledge of Good and Evil,โ thereby incurring death for themselves and all of mankind for ever after. God prevents them from regaining eternal life, by placing a guard around the โTree of Eternal Life.โ (Note: God could have done the same for the โTree of Knowledge of Good and Evilโ in the first place and would thereby have prevented the Fall of man, the necessity for Salvation, the Crucifixion of Jesus, etc.)
GE 4:2-8 Godโs arbitrary preference of Abelโs offering to that of Cainโs provokes Cain to commit the first biblically recorded murder and kill his brother Abel.
GE 34:13-29 The Israelites kill Hamor, his son, and all the men of their village, taking as plunder their wealth, cattle, wives and children.
GE 6:11-17, 7:11-24 God is unhappy with the wickedness of man and decides to do something about it. He kills every living thing on the face of the earth other than Noahโs family and thereby makes himself the greatest mass murderer in history.
GE 19:26 God personally sees to it that Lotโs wife is turned to a pillar of salt (for having looked behind her while fleeing the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah).
GE 38:9 โโฆ whenever he lay with his brotherโs wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked โฆ, so the Lord put him to death.โ
EX 2:12 Moses murders an Egyptian.

EX 7:1, 14, 9:14-16, 10:1-2, 11:7 The purpose of the devastation that God brings to the Egyptians is as follows:
to show that he is Lord;
to show that there is none like him in all the earth;
to show his great power;
to cause his name to be declared throughout the earth;
to give the Israelites something to talk about with their children;
to show that he makes a distinction between Israel and Egypt.

EX 9:22-25 A plague of hail from the Lord strikes down everything in the fields of Egypt both man and beast except in Goshen where the Israelites reside.
EX 12:29 The Lord kills all the first-born in the land of Egypt.
EX 17:13 With the Lordโs approval, Joshua mows down Amalek and his people.
EX 21:20-21 With the Lordโs approval, a slave may be beaten to death with no punishment for the perpetrator as long as the slave doesnโt die too quickly.
EX 32:27 โPut every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
EX 32:27-29 With the Lordโs approval, the Israelites slay 3000 men.
LE 26:7-8 The Lord promises the Israelites that, if they are obedient, their enemies will โfall before your sword.โ

LE 26:22 โI will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children.โ
LE 26:29, DT 28:53, JE 19:9, EZ 5:8-10 As a punishment, the Lord will cause people to eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and fathers and friends.

LE 27:29 Human sacrifice is condoned. (Note: An example is given in JG 11:30-39)
NU 11:33 The Lord smites the people with a great plague.
NU 12:1-10 God makes Miriam a leper for seven days because she and Aaron had spoken against Moses.
NU 15:32-36 A Sabbath breaker (who had gathered sticks for a fire) is stoned to death at the Lordโs command.
NU 16:27-33 The Lord causes the earth to open and swallow up the men and their households (including wives and children) because the men had been rebellious.
NU 16:35 A fire from the Lord consumes 250 men.
NU 16:49 A plague from the Lord kills 14,700 people.
NU 21:3 The Israelites utterly destroy the Canaanites.
NU 21:6 Fiery serpents, sent by the Lord, kill many Israelites.
NU 21:35 With the Lordโs approval, the Israelites slay Og โโฆ and his sons and all his people, until there was not one survivor left โฆ.โ
NU 25:4 (KJV) โAnd the Lord said unto Moses, take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun โฆ.โ
NU 25:8 โHe went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly.โ
NU 25:9 24,000 people die in a plague from the Lord.
NU 31:9 The Israelites capture Midianite women and children.
NU 31:17-18 Moses, following the Lordโs command, orders the Israelites to kill all the Midianite male children and โโฆ every woman who has known man โฆ.โ (Note: How would it be determined which women had known men? One can only speculate.)
NU 31:31-40 32,000 virgins are taken by the Israelites as booty. Thirty-two are set aside (to be sacrificed?) as a tribute for the Lord.
DT 2:33-34 The Israelites utterly destroy the men, women, and children of Sihon.
DT 3:6 The Israelites utterly destroy the men, women, and children of Og.
DT 7:2 The Lord commands the Israelites to โutterly destroyโ and show โno mercyโ to those whom he gives them for defeat.
DT 20:13-14 โWhen the Lord delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the males โฆ. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves.โ
DT 20:16 โIn the cities of the nations the Lord is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.โ
DT 21:10-13 With the Lordโs approval, the Israelites are allowed to take โbeautiful womenโ from the enemy camp to be their captive wives. If, after sexual relations, the husband has โno delightโ in his wife, he can simply let her go.
DT 28:53 โYou will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.โ

JS 1:1-9, 18 Joshua receives the Lordโs blessing for all the bloody endeavors to follow.
JS 6:21-27 With the Lordโs approval, Joshua destroys the city of Jerichoโmen, women, and childrenโwith the edge of the sword.
JS 7:19-26 Achan, his children and his cattle are stoned to death because Achan had taken a taboo thing.
JS 8:22-25 With the Lordโs approval, Joshua utterly smites the people of Ai, killing 12,000 men and women, so that there were none who escaped.
JS 10:10-27 With the help of the Lord, Joshua utterly destroys the Gibeonites.
JS 10:28 With the Lordโs approval, Joshua utterly destroys the people of Makkedah.
JS 10:30 With the Lordโs approval, Joshua utterly destroys the Libnahites.
JS 10:32-33 With the Lordโs approval, Joshua utterly destroys the people of Lachish.
JS 10:34-35 With the Lordโs approval, Joshua utterly destroys the Eglonites.
JS 10:36-37 With the Lordโs approval, Joshua utterly destroys the Hebronites.
JS 10:38-39 With the Lordโs approval, Joshua utterly destroys the Debirites.
JS 10:40 (A summary statement.) โSo Joshua defeated the whole land โฆ; he left none remaining, but destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.โ
JS 11:6 The Lord orders horses to be hamstrung. (Exceedingly cruel.)
JS 11:8-15 โAnd the lord gave them into the hand of Israel, โฆutterly destroying them; there was none left that breathed โฆ.โ
JS 11:20 โFor it was the Lordโs doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be utterly destroyed, and should receive no mercy but be exterminated, as the Lord commanded Moses.โ
JS 11:21-23 Joshua utterly destroys the Anakim.
JG 1:4 With the Lordโs support, Judah defeats 10,000 Canaanites at Bezek.
JG 1:6 With the Lordโs approval, Judah pursues Adoni-bezek, catches him, and cuts off his thumbs and big toes.
JG 1:8 With the Lordโs approval, Judah smites Jerusalem.
JG 1:17 With the Lordโs approval, Judah and Simeon utterly destroy the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath.
JG 3:29 The Israelites kill about 10,000 Moabites.
JG 3:31 (A restatement.) Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an oxgoad.
JG 4:21 Jael takes a tent stake and hammers it through the head of Sisera, fastening it to the ground.
JG 7:19-25 The Gideons defeat the Midianites, slay their princes, cut off their heads, and bring the heads back to Gideon.
JG 8:15-21 The Gideons slaughter the men of Penuel.
JG 9:5 Abimalech murders his brothers.
JG 9:45 Abimalech and his men kill all the people in the city.
JG 9:53-54 โA woman dropped a stone on his head and cracked his skull. Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, โDraw your sword and kill me, so that they canโt say a woman killed me.โ So his servant ran him through, and he died.โ
JG 11:29-39 Jepthah sacrifices his beloved daughter, his only child, according to a vow he has made with the Lord.
JG 14:19 The Spirit of the Lord comes upon a man and causes him to slay thirty men.
JG 15:15 Samson slays 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass.
JG 16:21 The Philistines gouge out Samsonโs eyes.
JG 16:27-30 Samson, with the help of the Lord, pulls down the pillars of the Philistine house and causes his own death and that of 3000 other men and women.
JG 18:27 The Danites slay the quiet and unsuspecting people of Laish.
JG 19:22-29 A group of sexual depraved men beat on the door of an old manโs house demanding that he turn over to them a male house guest. Instead, the old man offers his virgin daughter and his guestโs concubine (or wife): โBehold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine; let me bring them out now. Ravish them and do with them what seems good to you; but against this man do not do so vile a thing.โ The manโs concubine is ravished and dies. The man then cuts her body into twelve pieces and sends one piece to each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
JG 20:43-48 The Israelites smite 25,000+ โmen of valorโ from amongst the Benjamites, โmen and beasts and all that they found,โ and set their towns on fire.
JG 21:10-12 โโฆ Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword and; also the women and little onesโฆ. every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall utterly destroy.โ They do so and find four hundred young virgins whom they bring back for their own use.
1SA 4:10 The Philistines slay 30,000 Israelite foot soldiers.
1SA 5:6-9 The Lord afflicts the Philistines with tumors in their โsecret parts,โ presumably for having stolen the Ark.
1SA 6:19 God kills seventy men (or so) for looking into the Ark (at him?). (Note: The early Israelites apparently thought the Ark to be Godโs abode.)
1SA 7:7-11 Samuel and his men smite the Philistines.
1SA 11:11 With the Lordโs blessing, Saul and his men cut down the Ammonites.
1SA 14:31 Jonathan and his men strike down the Philistines.
1SA 14:48 Saul smites the Amalekites.
1SA 15:3, 7-8 โThis is what the Lord says: Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass โฆ.โ And Saul โฆ utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.โ
1SA 15:33 โSamuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord โฆ.โ
1SA 18:7 The women sing as they make merry: โSaul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands.โ
1SA 27:8-11 โDavid left neither man nor woman alive โฆ.โ. (Note: This implies that children and infants were included in the slaughter.)
1SA 30:17 David smites the Amalekites.
2SA 2:23 Abner kills Asahel.
2SA 3:30 Joab and Abishai kill Abner.
2SA 4:7-8 Rechan and Baanah kill Ish-bosheth, behead him, and take his head to David.
2SA 4:12 David has Rechan and Baanah killed, their hands and feet cut off, and their bodies hanged by the pool at Hebron.
2SA 5:25 โAnd David did as the Lord commanded him, and smote the Philistines โฆ.โ
2SA 6:2-23 Because she rebuked him for having exposed himself, Michal (Davidโs wife) was barren throughout her life.
2SA 8:1-18 (A listing of some of Davidโs murderous conquests.)
2SA 8:4 David hamstrung all but a few of the horses.
2SA 8:5 David slew 22,000 Syrians.
2SA 8:6, 14 โThe Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.โ
2SA 8:13 David slew 18,000 Edomites in the valley of salt and made the rest slaves.
2SA 10:18 David slew 47,000+ Syrians.
2SA 11:14-27 David has Uriah killed so that he can marry Uriahโs wife, Bathsheba.
2SA 12:1, 19 The Lord strikes Davidโs child dead for the sin that David has committed.
2SA 13:1-15 Amnon loves his sister Tamar, rapes her, then hates her.
2SA 13:28-29 Absalom has Amnon murdered.
2SA 18:6 -7 20,000 men are slaughtered at the battle in the forest of Ephraim.
2SA 18:15 Joabโs men murder Absalom.
2SA 20:10-12 Joabโs men murder Amasa and leave him โโฆ wallowing in his own blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped.โ
2SA 24:15 The Lord sends a pestilence on Israel that kills 70,000 men.
1KI 2:24-25 Solomon has Adonijah murdered.
1KI 2:29-34 Solomon has Joab murdered.
1KI 2:46 Solomon has Shime-i murdered.
1KI 13:15-24 A man is killed by a lion for eating bread and drinking water in a place where the Lord had previously told him not to. This is in spite of the fact that the man had subsequently been lied to by a prophet who told the man that an angel of the Lord said that it would be alright to eat and drink there.
1KI 20:29-30 The Israelites smite 100,000 Syrian soldiers in one day. A wall falls on 27,000 remaining Syrians.
2KI 1:10-12 Fire from heaven comes down and consumes fifty men.
2KI 2:23-24 Forty-two children are mauled and killed, presumably according to the will of God, for having jeered at a man of God.
2KI 5:27 Elisha curses Gehazi and his descendants forever with leprosy.
2KI 6:18-19 The Lord answers Elishaโs prayer and strikes the Syrians with blindness. Elisha tricks the blind Syrians and leads them to Samaria.
2KI 6:29 โSo we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, โGive up your son so we may eat him,โ but she had hidden him.โ
2KI 9:24 Jehu tricks and murders Joram.
2KI 9:27 Jehu has Ahaziah killed.
2KI 9:30-37 Jehu has Jezebel killed. Her body is trampled by horses. Dogs eat her flesh so that only her skull, feet, and the palms of her hands remain.
2KI 10:7 Jehu has Ahabโs seventy sons beheaded, then sends the heads to their father.
2KI 10:14 Jehu has forty-two of Ahabโs kin killed.
2KI 10:17 โAnd when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the Lord โฆ.โ
2KI 10:19-27 Jehu uses trickery to massacre the Baal worshippers.
2KI 11:1 Athaliah destroys all the royal family.
2KI 14:5, 7 Amaziah kills his servants and then 10,000 Edomites.
2KI 15:3-5 Even though he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, the Lord smites Azariah with leprosy for not having removed the โhigh places.โ
2KI 15:16 Menahem ripped open all the women who were pregnant.
2KI 19:35 An angel of the Lord kills 185,000 men.
1CH 20:3 (KJV) โAnd he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes.โ
2CH 13:17 500,000 Israelites are slaughtered.
2CH 21:4 Jehoram slays all his brothers.
PS 137:9 Happy will be the man who dashes your little ones against the stones.
PS 144:1 God is praised as the one who trains hands for war and fingers for battle.
IS 13:15 โEveryone who is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their โฆ wives will be ravished.โ
IS 13:18 โTheir bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.โ
IS 14:21-22 โPrepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers.โ
IS 49:26 The Lord will cause the oppressors of the Israeliteโs to eat their own flesh and to become drunk on their own blood as with wine.
JE 16:4 โThey shall die grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.โ
LA 4:9-10 โThose slain by the sword are better off than those who die of famine; racked with hunger, they waste away for lack of food. โฆ pitiful women have cooked their own children, who became their food โฆโ
EZ 6:12-13 The Lord says: โโฆ they will fall by the sword, famine and plague. He that is far away will die of the plague, and he that is near will fall by the sword, and he that survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I spend my wrath upon them. And they will know I am the Lord, when the people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak โฆ.โ
EZ 9:4-6 The Lord commands: โโฆ slay old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women โฆ.โ
EZ 20:26 In order that he might horrify them, the Lord allowed the Israelites to defile themselves through, amongst other things, the sacrifice of their first-born children.
EZ 21:3-4 The Lord says that he will cut off both the righteous and the wicked that his sword shall go against all flesh.
EZ 23:25, 47 God is going to slay the sons and daughters of those who were whores.
EZ 23:34 โYou shall โฆ pluck out your hair, and tear your breasts.โ
HO 13:16 โThey shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.โ
MI 3:2-3 โโฆ who pluck off their skin โฆ, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.โ
MT 3:12, 8:12, 10:21, 13:30, 42, 22:13, 24:51, 25:30, LK 13:28, JN 5:24 Some will spend eternity burning in Hell. There will be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.
MT 10:21 โโฆ the brother shall deliver up his brother to death, and the father his child, โฆ children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.โ
MT 10:35-36 โFor I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law a manโs enemies will be the members of his own family.โ
MT 11:21-24 Jesus curses [the inhabitants of] three cities who were not sufficiently impressed with his great works.
AC 13:11 Paul purposefully blinds a man (though not permanently).
๐๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ค.
Christianity has been romanticizing certain cliches as selling points for the false pagan beliefs of associating Prophet Jesusโ son Mary in worship with Allah Exalted, He.
Do not forget Matthew 10:34
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โDo not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Some of those cliches are Love your enemy and turn the other cheek, since Adam till today the history and reality have proven that humanity is impossible to live without regulations and laws.
The existence of a police station in almost each suburb of each city is crystal-clear concrete evidence to refute those fairytales, and fantasies Theoretically Love your enemy and turn the other cheek sound great, reality has proven to be false.
๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ค ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ, ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ, ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐๐ฏ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ:
1) First as a Christian you are free to try to be idealist by trying to love your enemy and turn the other cheek, while that youโre attempting make sure to love Allah, Prophet Muhammed, and all Muslims. By the way you have failed because you are still not Muslim.
2) Love your enemy and turn the other cheek if not practiced while youโre in a position of power, ability, and capability to destroy your enemy, then you are fraud. Loving tour enemy and turning the other cheek from position of weakness means noting except hypocrisy and deception.
3) The negative devastating and destructive ramifications on personal and family can vary from losing your personal wealth and valuables to scammer who runaway with them.
Unless you earned your money from illicit sources, for you to love the scammer who scammed you and forgive him, you would lose some of your hard-earned money or some of your wealth, which would harm you and your family future, and you be doing the wrong thing by yourself and your family.
You would also be sending the wrong message to the scammer that it is okay to do that as he will get away with such criminal offence. The community as well will be impacted as such scammer will move along to try to scam more victims.
We challenge any Christian on earth planet to find us a country that has no police force, legal system, prison system and armed forced. Even neutral countries such as Switzerland has some form of army.
๐๐จ๐ญ๐:
Maybe you could practise turn the other cheek one personal level, if someone wronged you and you can forgive if such forgiveness will not enable offenders to be repeat their offence over and over again.
๐๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ:
Islam is not just about love but also about justice, Islam is a very practical religion fully fit to fix people affairs in this world and the hereafter. Simply because it is the only true religion of God, the only true pure monotheistic religion of God.
Islamic Divine Laws had been enacted by Allah Exalted He to implement Justice, sadly Christianity had veered off under the influence of Apostle Paul who changed the True Pure message of Prophet Jesus son of Mary that was sent to confirm the laws of Prophet Moses such as eye for eye which is part of the Islamic Divine Sharia laws.
Prophet Jesus was quoted saying in Matthew 5:17
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โDo not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Allah knows Best.
Was Prophet Muhammed violent while Prophet Jesus was peaceful?
Love your enemies, a Biblical myth REFUTED