In other words, yes Jesus and the creator God of the Old Testament who morally rationalizes the genocidal slaughter of infants and children are one and the same, but you can't admit it.
What's your point? God ordered those killed that would not live by his laws, or went a different path that they were not to go. What's your point? That God can create and God can then take that life away if he so chooses? The New Testament is a new convenent with man where God provided a way to salvation. It's a telling of the history of that time period and what happened and why. You haven't as yet answered one of my questions, you don't know what you're talking about in the context in which is was written, yet you act as though you have some kind of a point to make. Why don't you just admit that you simply want to blindly bash people for their beliefs and quit acting like you have some kind of a noble cause?
This thread is about the MORALITY of Atheists versus the morality of believers in God. Atheists consider genocide and infanticide immoral and bible believers like you consider it moral for revenge.
Christians agree that genocide andinfanticide are immoral for mankind to do. However, the Creator is far more wise and knows far more than we do about His plan for mankind than we do, so we don't judge God as you do.
If you would like to switch to the morality of the path to salvation in the New Testament, I don't mind debating that. I just didn't want you to use it to avoid the fact that Atheists have a higher morality than the genocidal morality of bible believers.
From what I have seen, you are not qualified to debate on Bible topics, or on Christianity. Your so called higher morality is of no value to God. Having values ojnly meand we know better, living the values is something that humans, even Atheist humans don't have the capability to do. Unless you are saying that you are perfect? My high moral standards to not make me good when I violate God's standards moral or otherwise. My high morals standards also don't give me the right to Judge Creator God.
The New Testament morality says it is OK to punish an innocent for the deeds of the guilty. Salvation can only be obtained by agreeing to have an innocent Jesus tortured and crucified for YOUR evil deeds.
This statement alone tells me that you have not really done any Bible study. You may have read some verses, likely through the medium of an anti-Christian website. There was only one way for man to have an eternal relationship with God, and that was for sin to be eternally taken care of. God designed that way, and it was through Christ. His love would not allow Him to erase us from existence.
That act of God has nothing to do with how Christians, or any other human feels about the death of an innocent, or the punishment of an innocentfor the deeds of the guilty. That was God's idea and His plan, and He is the Creator wo we cannot secopnd guess Him and judge Him as you do.
An Atheist would find it immoral that any innocent should be punished in place of the guilty and would say the guilty should be punished for their own deeds and the innocent should not be punished at all.
Who is innocent? The Bible says "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." It says that "the wages of sin is death." Jesus came to heal the sick, and not to tickle the ears of the "innocent." For He sees no one who is innocent. With that said, He does qualify that offering his eternal love to those who have not entered into willful sin.
So therefore the Atheist has a higher moral standard than the bible believer no matter which testament you use.
And the atheists standards will be there in the judgment, and you will have to home that they stand up against what Jesus died for. I doubt that will happen.