Can a God of peace be so violent and brutal?
Where is that God of mercy and love that prophets of old preached? Where is that God who so loved the world that He sent His Son to proclaim peace, love and everlasting life? Where is that God who did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved? (John 3:16-17)
Violent people make God to conform to their mode of thinking and behavior. They create a God who acts like themselves, and who treats people unkindly.
Why rob God of His true character and being?
Being angry and violent in character, violent people cannot present a deity who is non-violent. The deity they proclaim is like them; violent and angry.
Militants present a non-compassionate, non-merciful and angry deity.
They use religion to cause pain on fellow human beings
They create a vengeful supervisor of suicide bombers; a leader of killers of innocent people; one who supervises the killings of innocent lives.
They dictate to God how God must behave and what He must want.
They become angry when we tell them that a merciful God is not unmerciful and violent. They attack us because we present God as kind, benevolent and merciful; they see us as weak or timid. They prefer a God who is violent.
The God of the militants is a militant. His love is different from the non-militant God.
They tell us that God is merciful… that God is compassionate. Yet they present to us one who is always angry and one who does not forgive. They present to us one who orders his people to decapitate people who do not accept his teachings. Instead of explaining and convincing people to understand him, they preach fear and death!
Jesus told His followers,
“Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?” (Matthew 26:52-53; New King James Version)
Jesus taught us to love, to tolerate and to forgive. He said God can defend Himself, and so we do not need to fight and kill for God.
Man’s duty is to warn and not to compel (Ezekiel 3:18-21). The choice to accept rests with the hearer.
In the Bible when Gideon destroyed the altar of Baal, and the people rose up against him, wanting to kill him, his father, who incidentally was priest for Baal, said that the people should let Baal plead for himself, because it was his altar that had been torn down (Judges 6:28-32).
In the Qur’an we read, “There is no compulsion in religion …” (2:256) and “If you strive (or fight) you strive (or fight) for yourselves, for God does not need the help of his creatures …” (29:6).
If God cannot defend Himself, how then can God defend His worshipers?
Jesus told His followers,
“Whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, ‘The very dust of your city which clings to us we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this that the kingdom of God has come near you.’ But I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that city.” (Luke 10:10-12; New King James Version)
Jesus told His followers not to compel people. He also told His followers,
“… the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.” (John 16:2-3)
People are maliciously attacking our site because we preach peace and we tell people not to hate
They are maliciously trying to hijack our site and prevent us from spreading the words of love
On April 23, 2015, a total of 2,104 malicious login attempts were recorded from across five (5) different countries. On April 25, more attacks from other countries were still being recorded; some even from Thailand, Italy, France, etc. The attacks have not stopped. By 28 April, we have experienced 2,305 malicious login attempts.
Anger, hate and violence is everywhere. Persuasion, however, is the preferred Christian method of presenting views or beliefs.
People will not happily love and serve you if you use force. You will always have to force them to love you, and that would not be genuine love.