The verses below are among of the responses employed by Muslims whenever Christians confront them about the brutal killing of non-Muslims as commanded by their god Allah;
[Deuteronomy 22:22] If a man is found having sex with a woman who is married to someone else, both of them must die—the man who was having sex with the woman and the woman herself. Remove such evil from Israel!
[Leviticus 20:10] “’If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.
ANSWER:
The answer of the issue is in Deuteronomy 22:22 itself __”remove such evil from Israel”. Why the merciful God gave this order? Because during that period of time, God lived with the Israelites. The Israelite people was set aside by God and kept them holy. If we talk about “holy” it means ‘it has no sin’, how can Israel be holy if such an immoral act is done customarily? And why God set aside a holy clan? Because it is from this clan that the holy one and the savior (Jesus) will come from. Without holiness of Israel, no holy one would be born to them, imagine a holy one be born to evil people and live with them? After Jesus, God no longer gave that killing commandment to Israel.
Actually all sinners alike are to be meted with death sentence after this life. But the death sentence of those people came early because of what they did. God told them that He lived with them, yet despite knowing that, they were not afraid to commit grievous sins. It is from this knowledge that they were judged because what they did is a big insult to God, they had no fear of Him. God does not want killing wicked people as much as possible;
[Deuteronomy 18:23] “Do you think that I like to see wicked people die? says the Sovereign LORD. Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live.
[Ezekiel 33:11] Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
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