OT Questions 2 - Violence in General

I am confused - your meme was about Muhammed being violent. There are plenty of OT verses about god's chosen people being commanded to be violent. You did not post those. Cherry picking is pretty clear. 1 Samuel 15:3 ""Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants..." Deuteronomy 20:16However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

I partially answered this above. "Yahweh has used armies (and a flood) to accomplish His will all throughout history and He is still doing the same now."

The meme didn't compare OT violence with Muhammad... it compares Yeshua with Muhammad. You're not confused... you're instigating.

Is there violence commanded by Yahweh? Yes, but there are real differences between Biblical accounts and the religion of Islam.

The Biblical accounts are limited historical commands - not Islamic, ongoing, permanent marching orders as dictated by the Quran.

The Biblical accounts are tied to Israel’s unique role. Israel was a theocratic nation-state with a specific land promise and a specific task of clearing certain peoples from that land. Islam represents a permanent global marching order for any era, throughout history, of total Islamic dominance.

The Church is not Israel. Yeshua and the Apostles never re-issue these commands to the Church. The New Testament mission is proclamation, not conquest by the sword (Matthew 28:18–20; 2 Corinthians 10:3–6).

Yeshua reorients the ethic. He explicitly rejects the “eye for an eye” personal retaliation pattern and teaches enemy love (Matthew 5:38–48). He does not quote or reaffirm the total destruction commands as applicable to His followers. The final revelation in Christ supersedes the temporary civil and military provisions given to ancient Israel.

The New Testament interprets them as past historical acts of judgment on particular nations at a particular time, not as a template for Christians.

There's zero comparison between OT Biblical accounts, Yeshua's teaching, and the religion of Islam as found in the Quran. The present ongoing violence, raiding, and subjugation as an Islamic global dominance, for all eras, and for all followers, shows the categories to be completely different. No comparison at all!

The Bible and Quran are not the same.

The god of Islam and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are not the same.

Cherry picking? How about examining both in their own context. Have you even opened the Quran? Give it a try and see what you think.