Expert: Patricia Burns - 8/25/2008

Question
An Atheist asked me if your God Jesus is love and love us then why He command Saul to killed every one including women and infant of Amalek ?

1 Samuel Chapter 15
15:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.


Answer
As I see it, Amalek and all that were with him were heathen. The LORD remembered that which Amalek did to Isreal.   The LORD instructed Saul to destroy the heathen (Samuel 15:1-3 below).  

Satan has his children (Ps.58:3, 1 Jn.3:12, Matt.13:38 below).


Samuel 15:1   Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee [to be] king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.

Samuel 15:2   Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember [that] which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid [wait] for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

Samuel 15:3   Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.


Ps.58:3     The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

1 Jn.3:12    Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him?  Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Matt.13:38   The field is the world; the good seed are the CHILDREN of the kingdom; but the tares are the CHILDREN of the wicked one;



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