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- God drowned every child on EarthThe Genesis flood narrative describes God killing virtually all life on Earth, including infants, children, and pregn...
- God killed every firstborn child in EgyptExodus 11-12 describes God killing every firstborn in Egypt, from Pharaoh's heir to prisoners' children and livestock...
- God commanded the slaughter of entire cities, including childrenThe Hebrew Bible records God commanding the total destruction of Canaanite cities, explicitly including women and chi...
- God ordered the killing of infants and nursing babiesIn 1 Samuel 15, God commands Saul to kill Amalekite infants and nursing babies. This article examines the biblical te...
- God commanded the killing of all boys and non-virgin womenNumbers 31 describes Moses commanding Israelite soldiers to kill all male children and all women who had slept with m...
- God killed 70,000 people to punish their kingThe narrative in 2 Samuel 24 describes God killing 70,000 Israelites with a plague because their king conducted a cen...
- God sent bears to maul children for name-calling2 Kings 2:23-24 describes God sending two she-bears to maul 42 youths who mocked the prophet Elisha by calling him 'b...
- God killed a man for trying to stop the Ark from fallingUzzah reached out to steady the Ark of the Covenant when the oxen stumbled, and God struck him dead instantly. This a...
- God told Abraham to kill his own sonGenesis 22 describes God commanding Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac as a burnt offering. This article examines the...
- God killed a woman for looking over her shoulderGenesis 19:26 records that Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt for looking back at the destruction of Sodom. ...
- God hardened a man's heart, then punished him for itThroughout the Exodus narrative, God repeatedly hardens Pharaoh's heart to prevent him from releasing the Israelites,...
- God had a man executed for picking up sticks on SaturdayNumbers 15:32-36 describes God commanding the entire Israelite congregation to stone a man to death for gathering sti...
- God killed David's baby for David's sinIn 2 Samuel 12, God punishes David's adultery and murder by killing his innocent infant son. This article examines th...
- God killed Job's ten children to settle a bet with SatanThe Book of Job opens with God initiating a wager with Satan, giving permission to destroy everything Job has, includ...
- God killed two priests for burning the wrong incenseNadab and Abihu, newly ordained priests and sons of Aaron, were instantly killed by divine fire for offering 'unautho...
- God opened the ground and swallowed entire families, including childrenNumbers 16 describes God causing the earth to open and swallow Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and their entire households — i...
- God sent venomous snakes to kill people for complainingNumbers 21 describes God sending venomous snakes to bite and kill Israelites because they complained about food and w...
- God sent a plague that killed 14,700 peopleNumbers 16-17 describes God sending a plague that killed 14,700 Israelites for complaining about the previous killing...
- God sent a plague that killed 24,000 people for intermarryingNumbers 25 describes God killing 24,000 Israelites with a plague for having sexual relations with Moabite women and w...
- God killed Ananias and Sapphira for lying about a donationActs 5:1-11 describes God striking dead a married couple for lying about the proceeds from a land sale they donated t...
- God had seven of Saul's descendants hanged to end a famine2 Samuel 21 describes God sending a three-year famine because of Saul's treaty violation, then ending it after David ...
- God stopped the sun so Israel could keep killingJoshua 10:12-14 describes God halting the sun in the sky so the Israelites could continue slaughtering the Amorites. ...
- God's angel killed 185,000 soldiers in a single nightThe biblical account claims an angel killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers overnight during Sennacherib's siege of Jerusal...
- God sent a lying spirit to deceive a kingIn 1 Kings 22, the prophet Micaiah describes a vision where God commissions a spirit to speak lies through prophets t...
- God sent an evil spirit to torment SaulAccording to 1 Samuel, after rejecting Saul as king, God sent 'an evil spirit from the LORD' to torment him. The text...
- God cursed all women with painful childbirth for Eve's sinGenesis 3:16 declares that women will experience increased pain in childbirth as a consequence of Eve's sin in the Ga...
- God threatened to smear feces on the priests' facesIn Malachi 2:3, God threatens to smear the dung of the priests' sacrificial animals on their faces and throw them on ...
God's own words
- God punishes children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generationThe Bible repeatedly states that God punishes children for the sins of their parents to the third and fourth generati...
- God calls himself jealousThe Bible explicitly and repeatedly describes God as jealous, using the Hebrew word qanna. This same word describes a...
- God says he creates calamityMultiple biblical passages explicitly state that God creates calamity, disaster, and evil. Isaiah 45:7 declares 'I fo...
- God hates people before they do anything badAccording to Romans 9 and Malachi 1, God declared that he loved Jacob but hated Esau before either twin was born or h...
- God regretted making peopleThe Bible states multiple times that God regretted creating humanity and making Saul king. This appears to contradict...
- God takes credit for making people deaf, blind, and muteIn Exodus 4:11, when Moses protests he is not eloquent, God responds: 'Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes ...
- God says I will laugh at your calamityProverbs 1:26 depicts Wisdom saying 'I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes.' Similar d...
- God chose one nation and rejected all othersThe Bible explicitly states that God chose Israel as His special people. While this election was exclusive, the bibli...
- God predetermined who would be saved and who would be damnedThe Bible contains explicit statements that God chose certain people for salvation before creation, raising fundament...
New Testament
- God deliberately deceives people so they will be condemnedAccording to 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12, God sends a 'powerful delusion' to make people believe lies so they will be con...
- Most people go to destructionJesus taught that the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and few will find it. The New Testament ...
- God prepared a place of eternal fireAccording to the New Testament, God prepared an eternal fire of punishment before creating humanity. This doctrine ra...
- Everyone dies because of one man's mistakeAccording to Christian theology, all humans inherit guilt and death from Adam's sin in the Garden of Eden. This raise...
- Women must be silentThe New Testament contains explicit commands for women to remain silent in church, forbidding them to teach or exerci...
- Slaves should obey their mastersThe New Testament contains multiple explicit instructions for slaves to obey their masters. These passages do not con...
- Jesus said he came to turn families against each otherJesus explicitly stated he came not to bring peace but a sword, to set family members against each other. These state...
- Jesus said you must hate your family to follow himIn Luke 14:26, Jesus states that anyone who does not hate father, mother, wife, children, and siblings cannot be his ...
- Jesus compared a Canaanite woman to a dogWhen a Canaanite woman begged Jesus to heal her daughter, he said it was not right to take the children's bread and t...
- Jesus cursed a tree for not bearing fruit out of seasonThe Genesis flood narrative describes God killing virtually all life on Earth, including infants, children, and pregn...