Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son. 12:6

Trivia: What man was never born and never died?

Hebrews : Cruelty & Violence (14)

  1. "That which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned." Apostates will burn in hell with the other non-believers. 6:8
  2. "Melchisedec ... met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him." God showed his approval of "" with Melchisedec's blessing of Abraham. () 7:1
  3. God will not forgive anyone unless something is killed for him in a bloody manner. 9:13
  4. "A certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries." God will soon destroy non-believers in a fiery hell. 10:27
  5. Those who disobeyed the Old Testament law were killed without mercy. It will be much worse for those who displease Jesus. 10:28
  6. "Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord." 10:30
  7. "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." 10:31
  8. "Abraham ... offered up Isaac ... his only begotten son." (And this was a good thing? How fucked up is that?) 11:17
  9. The Israelites kept the passover and sprinkled blood on doorposts so that God wouldn't kill their firstborn children (like he did the Egyptians in ). 11:28
  10. God saved Rahab because she believed. (He killed all the non-believers in Jericho.) 11:31
  11. "Time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets." : Gideon, Samson, Jephthah, David, and Samuel. It would be hard to find a more monstrous group than these guys. 11:32
  12. "Others were tortured ... that they might obtain a better resurrection." 11:35
  13. God ordered animals to be "stoned, or thrust through with a dart" if they "so much as ... touch the mountain." 12:20
  14. "Ye are come ... to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel." 12:22

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