The Old Testament is a war manual, the New Testament tells us to turn the other cheek and love our enemy. God says. "Go now, and attack Amalek. Wipe out everything that belongs to them. Do not spare any of them, kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys. ” 1 Samuel 15:3 Saul "totally destroyed" the Amalekites, he kept "the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves, and lambs and everything that was good. Samuel then hacked the king of the Amalekites to pieces before the Lord. An Old Testament rule called Herem is a mode of rendering harmless anything imperiling the religious life of the nation, the total destruction of the enemy and his goods at the conclusion of a campaign, Genocide is commanded by the Lord of the Old Testament, but is this the God of Christ, Are there two Gods? Were the Gnostics correct to think the Old Testament God was Satan? 391
