Drunk With Blood:
God's killings in the Bible
by Steve Wells, the creator of the SAB.
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Skeptic's Annotated Bible / Quran / Book of Mormon
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die."
God says that if Adam eats from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then
the day that he does so, he will die. But later Adam eats the forbidden
fruit (3:6) and yet lives for another
930 years (5:5). 2:17
As a punishment for killing Abel, God says Cain will be "a fugitive and a vagabond." Yet
in just a few verses (4:16-17) Cain will settle down, marry, have a son, and build a city. This is
not the activity one would expect from a fugitive and a vagabond. 4:12
God promises Abram and his descendants all of the land of Canaan. But both
history and the bible (Acts 7:5 and Heb.11:13)
show that God's promise to Abram was not fulfilled.
13:15, 15:18,
17:8, 28:13-14
How long was the Egyptian captivity? This verse says 400 years,
but Ex.12:40 and
Gal.3:17 say 430 years. 15:13
"In the fourth generation they [Abraham's descendants] shall come hither again."
But, if we count Abraham, then their return occurred after seven generations:
Abraham, Isaac (Gen.21:1-3), Jacob
(Gen.25:19-26), Levi (Gen.35:22-23),
Kohath (Ex.6:16), Amramn
(Ex.6:18), and Moses
(Ex.6:20). 15:16
God promises Abram's descendants the land of
Canaan from the Nile to the Euphrates. But according to Acts 7:5 and
Heb.11:13 God's promise to Abram was not fulfilled. 15:18
God promises to make Isaac's descendents as numerous as "the stars of heaven",
which, of course, never happened. The Jews have always been, and will always be,
a small minority. 26:4
God renames Jacob twice (32:28, 35:10
). God says that Jacob will henceforth be called Israel, but the Bible continues to call
him Jacob anyway (47:28-29). And even God himself calls him Jacob
in 46:2. 32:28, 35:10
God calls Jacob Jacob, though he said in Gen.32:28 and 35:10 that he
would no longer be called Jacob but Israel. 46:2
God promises to bring Jacob safely back from
Egypt, but Jacob dies in Egypt (Gen.47:28-29) 46:3
The tribe of Judah will reign "until Shiloh," but Israel's first king (Saul) was from the tribe
of Benjamin (Acts 13:21), and most of the time after this prophecy there was no king at all.
49:10
"He washed his garments in wine ... His eyes shall be red with wine."
Did Judah really wash his clothes in wine? Were his eyes bloodshot from drinking too much? Or is this a prophecy of Jesus?
(I didn't know Jesus had a drinking problem.) 49:11-12
Contrary to the prophecy in 48:21, Joseph died in Egypt, not Israel.
Gen.50:24
God promises to cast out seven nations including the Amorites, Canaanites, and the Jebusites. But he was unable to
fulfill his promise. 7:1
God says that the Israelites will destroy all of the peoples they encounter. But according to Joshua (
15:63, 16:10,
17:12-13) and Judges (1:21,
27-36,
3:1-5) there were some people they just couldn't kill.
7:24
Those who do as God says will never be infertile (neither will their cows!) and will never get sick. 7:14-15
Prophets and dreamers are to be executed if they say or dream the wrong things.
13:1-5
False prophets are to be (you guessed it) executed. How do you know who is a false prophet? By whether or not their
predictions come true. (Watch out Jehovah's Witnesses!) 18:20
God promises to give Joshua all of the land that his "foot shall tread upon." He says that none of the people he
encounters will be able to resist him. But later we find that God didn't keep his promise, and that many tribes withstood
Joshua's attempt to steal their land. 1:3-5
Joshua tells the Israelites that God will "without fail" drive out the Canaanites and the Jebusites. But later, the Bible
tells us that he could not drive them out. 3:10
This verse says that Ai was never again occupied after it was destroyed by Joshua. But Nehemiah
(7:32) lists it among the cities of Israel at the time of the Babylonian captivity.
8:28
God promised the Israelites that he would drive out all the inhabitants of the lands they pass through. But this verse
shows that he didn't keep his promise since he couldn't drive out the Jebusites. 15:63
"And they drave not out the Canaanites." Once again God fails keep his promise to destroy all the people the
Israelites encounter. 16:10
The Israelites, contrary to God's promises to them, could not drive out the Canaanites. 17:12-13
Joshua tells Manasseh that he will be able to drive out the Canaanites, but it turns out (see Jg.1:27-28) that he
couldn't do it. 17:17-18
According to these verses, God fulfilled his promise to give the Israelites all of the lands that they encountered.
But in several places the Bible tells us that these promises were not kept. 21:43-45
God promised many times that he would drive out all the inhabitants of the lands they encountered. But these
verses show that God failed to keep his promise since he was unable to drive out the Canaanites. 1:21,
27-30
God promised many times that he would drive out all the inhabitants of the lands they encountered. But these
verses show that God failed to keep his promise since he was unable to drive out the Canaanites. 3:1-5
"Thy kingdom shall be established for ever."
God says that Davids's kingdom will last forever. It didn't of course. It was entirely destroyed about 400
years after Solomon's death, never to be rebuilt. 7:13, 16
God promises Josiah that he will have a peaceful death. But Josiah's death was anything but peaceful.
(2 Kg.23:29-30, 2 Chr.35:23-24)
22:20
In Jeremiah (34:4) God tells Zedekiah that he will die in peace and be buried with his fathers. But this verse and
Jer.52:10-11 say that he died a violent death in a foreign land.
25:7
Misquoted in Eph.4:8, which says: "Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive,
and gave gifts unto men."
The author changed the words and meaning of the psalm from "received gifts" to "gave gifts".
68:18
"I have sworn unto David my servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all
generations." But the Davidic line of Kings ended with Zedekiah; there were none during the Babylonian captivity,
and there are none today. 89:3-4, 34-37
God told Isaiah to tell Ahaz, the King of Judah, not to be concerned about Rezin (the king of Syria) or Pekah (the king of
Israel). But according to 2 Chr.28:5-6 "God delivered him [Ahaz] into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and
carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the
king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter." 7:3-7
The King James Version mistranslates the Hebrew word "almah", which means "young woman" as "virgin". (The Hebrew
word, "bethulah", means "virgin".) In addition, the young woman referred to in this verse was living at the time of the prophecy.
And Jesus, of course, was called Jesus -- and is not called Emmanuel in any verse in the New Testament.
7:14
As a sign that he's getting ready to destroy the world, God will destroy the whole universe. 13:10-13
These verses falsely predict that Babylon will never again be inhabited. 13:19-20
Dragons will live in Babylonian palaces and satyrs will dance there. 13:21-22
Every head will be bald, every beard will be shaved, and everyone will howl and weep abundantly. 15:2-3
"Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl." 16:7
"Within three years ... the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant
shall be very small and feeble." 16:14
This verse prophesies that Damascus will be completely destroyed and no longer be inhabited. Yet Damascus has never
been completely destroyed and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities. 17:1
God will ride in on a cloud and scare the hell out of the Egyptians. 19:1
The river of Egypt (identified as the Nile in RSV) shall dry up. This has never occurred. 19:5
"The land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt." Judah never invaded Egypt and was never a
military threat to Egypt. 19:17
This verse predicts that there shall be five cities in Egypt that speak the Canaanite language. But that language was never
spoken in Egypt, and it is extinct now. 19:18
These verses predict that the Egyptians will worship the Lord (Yahweh) with sacrifices and offerings. But Judaism has
never been an important religion in Egypt. 19:18-21
These verses predict that there will be an alliance between Egypt, Israel, and Assyria. But there has never been any
such alliance, and it's unlikely that it ever will since Assyria no longer exists. 19:23-24
"They have ... changed the ordinance. There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth
of the land is gone."
Is this a prophecy about prohibition in
the United States? 24:5-11
"The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink." You can't even trust a drunken prophet anymore.
28:7
"The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be
sevenfold." Well, this is one prophecy that will never come true. Since the moon has no light of its own, but only
reflects that of the sun, it could never shine like the sun. And the sun will not, at least not while there are humans to see
it, shine 7 times as bright as it does now. 30:26
"The host of heaven shall be dissolved ... and ... shall fall down."
The stars will dissolve and fall from the sky. 34:4
"Henceforth there shall no more come into thee [Jerusalem] the uncircumcised and the unclean." But many
uncircumcised people have visited and occupied Jerusalem after this prophecy was made.
52:1
Nations that do not serve Israel will perish. 60:12
"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me."
These words were spoken by Isaiah and referred to Isaiah. They were not a prophecy about a future prophet, as Jesus
claimed in Luke 4:16-19, where he supposedly read these verses in the synagogue while applying
them to himself. 61:1-2
God says he is going to punish Nebuchadnezzar and the
Babylonians for what they have done to his people -- even though God Himself is the one who made the
Babylonians attack and enslave Judah! As part of the punishment God will take the land of the
Babylonians and "make it perpetual desolations." A false prophecy, since present-day Iraq is quite
occupied.25:12-13
Hananiah vs. Jeremiah: Good Prophet, Bad Prophet 28:1-17
A new prophet shows up proclaiming the good news: God was going to break the yoke of Babylon and bring the people of Judah back home.
His name was Hananiah. 28:1-4
God kills Hananiah for disagreeing with Jeremiah. 28:16-17
God will send his usual blessings upon his people: "the sword, the famine, and the pestilence." He "will make them like vile figs,
that cannot be eaten, they are so evil." Why will he do this? Because they didn't listen to his prophets. 29:19
Matthew (2:17-18) quotes this verse, claiming that it was a prophecy
of King Herod's alleged slaughter of the children in and around Bethlehem after the birth of Jesus. But
this passage refers to the Babylonian captivity, as is clear by reading the next two verses (16 and 17),
and, thus, has nothing to do with Herod's massacre. 31:15
"David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel." But the Davidic line of Kings ended with Zedekiah; there were none during the Babylonian captivity, and there
are none today. 33:17
God lies to Zedekiah again by telling him that
he will die in peace and be buried with his fathers. But later (2 Kg.25:7 and 52:10-11)
he dies a violent death in a foreign land. 34:2, 5
The beginning of the end for Zedekiah. Despite God's earlier assurances
(34:5) that he would die peacefully at home, here
Zedekiah watches as his children are killed and then has his eyes put out and he
is shackled and taken to Babylon. 39:6-7
All those who move to Egypt will die by the sword, famine, or pestilence. None "shall
escape from the evil" that comes directly from God. But many, including Jews, have moved to Egypt
and most seem to have escaped from God's promised evil. 42:15-18, 22
Jeremiah predicts that humans will never again live in Hazor, but will be replaced by dragons.
But people still live there and dragons have never been seen. 49:33
God prophesies that Babylon will never again be inhabited. But it has been inhabited constantly since the prophecy was
supposedly made, and is inhabited still today. 50:39
God says that Babylon will be desolate and uninhabited forever. He says that only dragons will live there. But Babylon has been
dragon-free and continuously inhabited since then. 51:26, 29, 37, 43, 62, 64
"The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the
waves thereof." 51:42
God promised Zedekiah (Jer.34:5) that he would die peacefully and be buried with his fathers.
But here we see that he died a miserable death in foreign land. 52:10-11
"Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy." 13:2
God deceives some of his prophets and then kills them for believing his lies.
14:9
Ezekiel prophesies that Tyrus will be completely destroyed by Nebuchadrezzar and will never be built again. But it wasn't destroyed, as evidenced by the visits to Tyre by Jesus and Paul (Mt.15:21, Mk.7:24, 31, Acts 21:3).
26:14,21, 27:36, 28:19
Ezekiel prophesies that Israel will reside in their homeland safely and
securely, never again to fight neighboring nations. 28:24-26
Ezekiel makes another false prophecy: that Egypt would be uninhabited by humans or animals for forty years after being destroyed by
Nebuchadrezzar. But there was never a time when Egypt was uninhabited. Humans and animals have lived there continuously since Ezekiel's prophecy.
29:10-11
"The day of the LORD is near ... it shall be the time of the heathen." 30:3
The rivers of Egypt (identified as the Nile in NIV, NASB, and RSV) shall dry up. This has
never occurred. 30:12
Ezekiel prophesies God will protect
the Israelites from "the heathen". "And they shall be safe in their land." But the Israelites have
never lived peacefully with their neighbors, and they've never been safe from attack.
34:28-29
"And David my servant shall be king over them."
How's that supposed to happen? David had been dead (if he ever lived) for more than 400 years when these words were written. 37:24
"Thou shalt come up against my people of Israel ... in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me ... O Gog."
38:16
"I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it." (If Daniel couldn't understand his
visions, then how could anyone else?) This is the one true prophecy in the book of
Daniel: "none understood it." 8:27
"After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."
This may be the verse referred to in Luke 18:31-33 and 1 Corinthians 15:3-4. However, Hosea 6:2 refers to the people living at the time (hence "us") who were to be torn up by God and therefore cannot be fulfilled by the the death and resurrection of Jesus.
6:2
"The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad." 9:7
"When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt."
Matthew (2:15) claims that the flight of Jesus' family to Egypt is a fulfillment of this verse. But Hosea 11:1 is not a prophecy at all. It is a reference to the Hebrew exodus from Egypt and has nothing to do with Jesus. Matthew tries to hide this fact by quoting only the last part of the verse ("Out of Egypt I have called my son").
11:1
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