1) Murder as a word means unlawful killing. (Both currently and as stated in the 10 Commandments by רצח, which translates pretty well into our concept of murder)
No, currently it means killing
with intent, genius. No intent means it's manslaughter. If you're a soldier, nations have agreed on a separate set of rules. Not that it matters, because the Israelites violated those too! Genocide is just murder on a large scale, you adorable legalist.
2) The Hebrew word for murder is not used at all in conjunction with wars which YHWH has ordered.
3) Other words are used instead of that word.
Therefore, the wartime killing of non-combatants was not murder according to Hebrew law and culture; wartime killing of non-combatants was not illegal under their society's laws.
I like how your ignored the part about Korah's rebellion, which I guess isn't murder because they disobeyed God and therefore it's capital punishment.
That's why Stalin's reign of terror wasn't murderous, since it was legal!
A refresher on context:
This is all in response to your quote, "Any law can, and has if I remember my stories, has been overridden if God tells you to."
I asked you to provide an example of when God has overridden His law, which, given your strong implication that it happens a bunch, should not have been hard for you to do.
I keep giving you examples, but you keep dismissing them.
Quiz time:
Does God Abraham ordering his son (and him obeying) not contradict your argument because:
A) God had not handed down the law to Moses
Rebuttal: Why is Cain a bad person, then? Because God didn't tell him to?
B) God told him he was kidding.
Rebuttal: You can't be serious.
However, your example of killing which you (and I) find distasteful and which would be currently illegal under U.S. law (but unlikely to be prosecuted as a murder) is not an example of God overriding laws He has set down.
Genocide = Murder on a grand scale. There's a requirement for intent and everything! As I said, God gets away with violating what our words means by defining morality however he wants. Which brings us to:
I don't particularly care about your feelings on historical or present murder. Rather, I took offense at your broad and unqualified claim which I think to be untrue, and asked you for some of the proof which is your burden.
Are you sure? Because you're sounding like one of those moral relativistic Christian apologists that says God is still a good person because it was "different" back then.
So, there's this fireman who's totally looking at some kiddie porn in the truck on the way to a fire. When they get to the burning building, this guy does some amazing stuff and single-handedly saves a hundred people through his heroic actions. He receives an award from the city. Therefore, the city loves them some child porn, whoo!
This is either a
or you being amazingly dense.
HERE'S THE CONVERSATION:
Trans: God orders people to violate his laws all the time and whenever it's convenient.
Rico: No he doesn't.
Trans: What about Rahab?
Rico: By being a liar she let the Israelites in to slaughter the populace and thus benefiting God/Israel.
Or, reworded
God let Rahab violate a commandment because it was strategically convenient. I suppose he didn't
order her to, but oh hey that would be hairsplitting. So you're probably going to do it!
It's not like the Bible is known for it's utilitarianism. Who benefited from Rahab's lies? Certainly not Jericho! It was the Israelites and thus God by proxy. He allowed it because it benefited him. He just threw a holy commandment out the window for that. The only consistent thing about the Bible is
obey God. Rahab did his will therefore it was moral.
I will look around for some other examples while you start on the grain harvest.