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(4) According to the Bible, God commanded and commended genocide. (5) A good being, let alone the supremely good Being, would never command or commend an atrocity." [ 10 ] Of early Christians, Marcion was most bothered by this dilemma, but his proposed resolution—denying that the God of the Old Testament was the same as the Christian God ...
In this book, Conquest supported the view that the famine was a planned act of genocide. [27] According to historians Stephen Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies, "Conquest holds that Stalin wanted the famine ... and that the Ukrainian famine was deliberately inflicted for its own sake." [2]
In the 1980s, the union organizer and journalist Douglas Tottle with the help of Soviet authorities [36] wrote a book arguing that the famine in Ukraine was not genocide, [37] under the title "Fraud, Famine and Ukrainian Fascism", to be published in Soviet Ukraine. However, before final publication, reviewers of the book in Kyiv insisted that ...
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
In the New Testament, the Book of Mark indicates that the advance of the gospel may precede and foretell the apocalypse. [5] [12] The colour white also tends to represent righteousness in the Bible, and Christ is portrayed as a conqueror in other instances. [5] [12] Besides Christ, the Horseman could represent the Holy Spirit.
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Raphael Lemkin (a pioneer of genocide studies [103]: 35 who coined the term genocide, and an initiator of the Genocide Convention), called the famine an intentional genocide. James Mace and Norman Naimark have written that the Holodomor was a genocide and the intentional result of Soviet policies under Stalin. [171]
Numbers 31 is the 31st chapter of the Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Pentateuch , the central part of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), a sacred text in Judaism and Christianity. Scholars such as Israel Knohl and Dennis T. Olson name this chapter the War against the Midianites. [1] [2]