And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

1 Samuel 15:18

 Manbird wrote:
 
Get ahold of yourself there flapjack before
you flip out of the griddle...

He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

Deuteronomy 20:10

When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. ¹¹ If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. ¹² If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. ¹³ When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. ¹⁴ As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. ¹⁵ This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

¹⁶ However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. ¹⁷ Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. ¹⁸ Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.

Matthew 5:21

“You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.

Psalm 14:1  The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds;
There is no one who does good.

Revelation 19:17: "I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God."

At that time Menahem, starting out from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in the city and its vicinity, because they refused to open their gates. He sacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women. (2 Kings 15:16)

Galatians

5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit ⁴¹  is love, ⁴²  joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ⁴³  5:23 gentleness, and ⁴⁴  self-control. Against such things there is no law. 5:24 Now those who belong to Christ ⁴⁵  have crucified the flesh ⁴⁶  with its passions ⁴⁷  and desires. 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with ⁴⁸  the Spirit. 5:26 Let us not become conceited, ⁴⁹  provoking ⁵⁰  one another, being jealous ⁵¹  of one another.

Jeremiah 31:31-34

31 "The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. 33 "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

Chapters 38–39 then tell how Gog of Magog (meaning "Gog from the Land of Gog") and his hordes from the north will threaten the restored Israel, but will be destroyed by God.

 

Ezekiel 38
 

Ezekiel 39

 

 romeotuma wrote: 
Psalm 46:10
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

 Manbird wrote: 

duh, of course!!

 Skaterella wrote: 
The Book of St. Lomax. Doi. 

 Manbird wrote: 

ok I definately don't know where that verse is found....

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Seeing my chin for the first time in a couple of decades is interesting.

 FooledAgain wrote:I'm sure your amygdala is fine, whichever way it swings. My point (which I'm sure I could have made more concisely, but I got to wandering) was that it is curious that a theology that seems in accord with left-wing values would apparently strongly appeal to right-wingers, and I was trying to think (out loud) about whether the amygdala thing could lead people to embrace something that, rationally, they shouldn't embrace, given their values. But I think I ended up talking in circles. Again. *sigh*

I do think it's useful and sobering to try to imagine the world as seen by someone who has a different fundamental reaction to it. For example, I am, by nature, trusting and inclusive. Probably not by coincidence, I am also left of centre politically. So I try to imagine, say, walking on the street and passing someone who fits some ethnic picture and having that experience alarm me... actually hit me in the gut, frighten me, worry me. Not because of any evidence I have that something bad will happen, just a visceral reaction that I can't control. It's hard for me to put myself in those shoes, but I think I must if I'm to understand how a fearful "us-versus-them" person sees the world, and therefore how such a person could gravitate to a sociopolitical view that, rationally, might not be in their best interest.

And I think Jesus was not just rocking the boat for the "haves", but also saying that there is another legitimate world-view — one of inclusion and trust rather than exclusion and fear.
 

yeah, for sure (IMO) Jesus is all about inclusion. I'm not as charitable as you are- I tend to think people often twist the gospels to suit their own purposes & beat people up.

 Manbird wrote: 

Thomas is from the gnostic gospels.  they're not part of the official canon  but the gnostics  are very interesting. 

 Manbird wrote: 
So only transexuals and men can be saved.  What a deal!