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Acts 5. Ananias and Sapphira purchased some land and held back a part of the money, gave the rest to charity. When Ananias brought the tribute before Peter, the apostle accuses him of withholding some, lying to God, and he drops dead. You'll notice the text never says it was his intention to give the full amount to the apostles, but in any case, it wasn't good enough, so he was killed. But the story gets even better. So overwhelmed with grief was Peter at watching a man die in front of him, when the poor sap's wife came calling, he immediately embraces her and tells her, "Your husband has died. I'm so sorry."

 

Oh wait, no he doesn't.

 

Instead he callously demands, "Is this the full price of the land you and Ananias sold?" No hint whatsoever that if you give the wrong answer here, don't come clean, that you're going to be taken outside in a shroud and buried.

 

"Yes," she says.

 

And now Peter again, the man who betrayed Christ on the eve of his death, who lied three times to man and God, filled with self-righteous indignation: "How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also." One can almost hear the relish in his voice.

 

Not much more is said about this incident, except that "great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events." I'll bet it did. Such a tender picture of divine mercy.

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Acts 5. Ananias and Sapphira purchased some land and held back a part of the money, gave the rest to charity. When Ananias brought the tribute before Peter, the apostle accuses him of withholding some, lying to God, and he drops dead. You'll notice the text never says it was his intention to give the full amount to the apostles, but in any case, it wasn't good enough, so he was killed. But the story gets even better. So overwhelmed with grief was Peter at watching a man die in front of him, when the poor sap's wife came calling, he immediately embraces her and tells her, "Your husband has died. I'm so sorry."

 

Oh wait, no he doesn't.

 

Instead he callously demands, "Is this the full price of the land you and Ananias sold?" No hint whatsoever that if you give the wrong answer here, don't come clean, that you're going to be taken outside in a shroud and buried.

 

"Yes," she says.

 

And now Peter again, the man who betrayed Christ on the eve of his death, who lied three times to man and God, filled with self-righteous indignation: "How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also." One can almost hear the relish in his voice.

 

Not much more is said about this incident, except that "great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events." I'll bet it did. Such a tender picture of divine mercy.

Yeah . . . if you read either the Koran OR the Bible literally you will be fairly horrified.

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Yeah . . . if you read either the Koran OR the Bible literally you will be fairly horrified.

 

In particular the Old Testament is pretty grim. There was a "scorched earth" policy in many battles fought by the Israelites. Nobody lived, the earth was salted so no crops grew again, etc. These were the commands given by the Israelite leaders.

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Yeah . . . if you read either the Koran OR the Bible literally you will be fairly horrified.

 

In particular the Old Testament is pretty grim. There was a "scorched earth" policy in many battles fought by the Israelites. Nobody lived, the earth was salted so no crops grew again, etc. These were the commands given by the Israelite leaders.

 

By leaders I suppose you mean God.

 

Deuteronomy 7:1-2. "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

 

2And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them..."

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