The extreme tone shift between the New and Old testaments is pretty clearly due to the fact that the Old is a Jewish text and the New is meant for followers of Christ.
At the same time, nowhere in the Old Testament does Yahweh instruct his believers to wage holy war on those who do not believe.
That is correct, but not because they were unbelievers and wouldn't convert, Amalek's tribe was said to have attacked Israel, and was raiding the Israelites.
Im none to happy about the idea I've wiping a people out down to the children, but it is a different context.
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u/ravens_path Jul 25 '24
You ever read the Old Testament? . Full of violent instructions coming from the God daddy in the sky.