F0uad
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Exactly, context is everything.
The most famous example of OT warfare is The God's instructions to wipe out the Canaanites. It says God had pleaded and worked with them for years and they had abjectly refused to repent. It was only when the Bible says their cup of iniquity was finally full that God reluctantly gave the order to attack them. Even secular scholars claim they walled up live children in foundations for their false God's and forced them to walk through fire. Compare that with the context of Muhammads acts. He hated poems that a few people had written so he killed the authors, someone complained about that in a poem so he killed them as well. He raided caravans of fellow Arabians for what even the Islamic scholars said was simple monetary reasons. He forced treaties at pain of death and then killed groups who did not live up to them. He beheaded people long after the battle was over and they were no threat to anyone. On one occasion it was so many people it literally wore him out. He had babies stripped from a mothers arms so she could be stabbed to death. He condemned to death many for the soul crime of thinking Islam was nuts. Context is everything. There is violence in all religions. Only in Christianity do we find comprehensive explanations of the moral justification for them. However there are a couple that are hard to swallow but virtually all fall under the obvious just sovereignty of an all knowing and perfectly just God. He was the lamb of God, but he was also the lion of Judah.
Lol what a strange comment "Context is everything" when its Islamic we dont mention the context but when your own belief is on the line you invent a whole theory.