What the Bible Says About

Contradictions
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Christian responses to the SAB contradictions


Does God want children to die?
No, he doesn't want any to die. Yes, he often kills children and commands others to do so as well.
Mt.18:14
"It is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish."
Gen.7:21-22
God drowns all children (except for Noah's) in a flood.
Gen.19:24
God kills all the children of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Gen.22:2
God tells Abraham to kill his son for a burnt offering.
Ex.12:30
God murders the Egyptian firstborn children.
Ex.21:15, Lev.20:9, Dt.21:18-21
Children who are disobedient, or who curse or strike their parents are to be killed.
Dt.20:16, Jos.10:40
God ordered the Israelites to kill all of the children in the cities that they invaded.
1 Sam.15:2-3
God orders Saul to kill all of the Amalekite children.
2 Sam.12:15, 18
To punish David for having Uriah killed, God kills David's newborn son.
2 Kg.2:23-24
God sends bears to kill 42 little boys for making fun of Elisha's bald head.
Jer.13:13-14
God will make everyone drunk and then "dash the fathers and the sons together." He vows to "not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them."
Jer.19:9
God will make parents eat their own children, and friends eat each other.
Ps.135:8, 136:10
God is praised for slaughtering little babies.
Ps.137:9
Happiness is smashing your little children against rocks.
Ezek.5:10
God will cause fathers to eat their sons and sons to eat their fathers.
Hos.9:16
God assures Hosea that he will "slay even the beloved fruit of the womb."
Hos.13:16
God promises to dash to pieces the infants of Samaria and "their women with child shall be ripped up."
Zech.13:3
A prophet must be killed by his own parents by "thrusting him through when he prophesieth."