Acts : Cruelty & Violence (8)
- Peter claims that
refers to Jesus, saying that those who refuse to follow him (all non-Christians) must be killed.
3:23
- Peter and God scare Ananias and his wife to death for not forking over all of the money that they made when
selling their land.
5:1
- Peter has a dream in which God show him "wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls." The voice
(God's?) says, "Rise, Peter: kill and eat."
10:10
- Peter describes the vision that he had in the last chapter (). All
kinds of beasts, creeping things, and fowls drop down from the sky in a big sheet, and a voice (God's,
Satan's?) tells him to "Arise, Peter; slay and eat."
11:5
- The "angel of the Lord" killed Herod by having him "eaten of worms" because "he gave not God the glory."
12:23
- Paul and the Holy Ghost conspire together to make Elymas (the sorcerer) blind.
13:8
- David was "a man after [God's] own heart."
13:22
- The author of Acts talks about the "sure mercies of David." But David was anything but merciful. For
an example of his behavior see and
, where he saws, hacks, and burns to death the inhabitants of
several cities.
13:34