As the title asks, why are Christians opposed to abortion when the Bible depicts God commanding the killing of innocent children and infants?

1 Samuel 15:3 states:

“Now go, attack the Amalekites and destroy everything they own as an offering to the Lord. Don’t let anything live. Put to death men and women, children and small babies, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”

If Christians argue that deliberately ending innocent human life is inherently immoral, how is this reconciled with a passage in which God explicitly commands the killing of children and infants?

It seems contradictory to claim that killing an unborn child is inherently wrong while simultaneously accepting that God could command the killing of infants and, by implication, pregnant women.

If the act of killing is morally wrong in itself, what principle makes it permissible when God commands it but immoral when a human being does it?

As an atheist, it has come to my attention that promiscuous people tend to get much more free passes than LGBT people. Now I understand that standard Christian doctrine discourages people from that, however, the experiences I've had with Christians is completely opposite to that.

To put it simply, promiscuous people are NOT held to the same standard, especially promiscious men. There are no laws dictating how many people aomeone can sleep with. There isn't public outrage when someone (more specifically, a man) sleeps around. There are no protests saying promiscuous people can't marry. There is no outrage when a "womanizer" character is portrayed in media.

So what's the deal? It doesn't feel consistent at all. If all sexual sin is held in the same regard, than why not publicly rally against promiscuous people the same way you do against LGBT people? Now of course I have no problem with people who want to sleep around or not, but why can't Christians seem to be consistent eith their beliefs in sexual sin?

As a final point, I'd like to add that my points primarily apply to men. Women who sleep around are MUCH more scrutinized than men are, and again, it doesn't feel consistent or make sense.

Im not really asking if he’ll send anyone to hell for it.

Do you think he considers it a sin tho? Should ppl be repenting for this?

Inspired by all the abortion related questions lately:

From my understanding, the Bible seems to understand abortion as a property crime against the father and personhood to begin at first breath, in line with the ancient Hebrew belief that life began with the breath. Not to mention the Catholic Church only extended excommunication to the abortion of a formed fetus, fitting the Aristotelian view.

Given this, why are so many modern Christians so ready to legally push their modern beliefs on abortion legally on those of other faiths, when they can’t even agree among themselves? And why is it such a big talking point, is this just another symptom of the politicization of religion?

As I've pointed out in the other post, this is one of my prefered passages in the Bible: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" (Matthew 19:24).

There is no ambiguity in the fact that Jesus told a rich man to sell everything and give to the poor. The early church "had everything in common" and "no one claimed that any of their possessions was their own". (Acts 4:32)

Jesus blessed the poor, warned against storing treasures and said you cannot serve both God and money.

Now here's my question: and I'm asking sincerely (It is NOT a "Gotcha!"):

If Jesus walked into your church today and said "sell everything and give to the poor", would you recognize him? Or would you call him a socialist and show him the door?

Because this tension no one will ever deny: American Christianity has married itself to capitalism, private property, and individual wealth accumulation. The prosperity gospel is just the unashamed version of what many quietly believe, meaning that God wants you to be comfortable, successful, and secure.

But was Jesus "Confortable"? He was homeless as far as I can tell. He told his followers to have no bag, no money, no extra tunic. He said "blessed are the poor" and meant it, right?

So I'll ask plainly:

Do you follow Jesus, or do you follow the American Dream? Because the two paths diverge pretty dramatically at "sell all".

You can't serve both God and money. Jesus said that. Not me.

So which one are you serving?

So, I'm an ex-Christian atheist. Had to be honest about it eventually. And one day I realized, oh ... my parents think I'm gonna be tortured forever by God. And they're gonna be in Heaven.

One day, I straight up, point blank, asked my dad "How would you feel if I died right now and went to Hell?" and he said "I'd be sad."

And that answer ... baffles me. Let's assume my dad is right about everything, and I'm wrong. There is a God, and He created an infinite torture pit for folks like me, and infinite bliss for my dad. I know that famous theologians like Aquinas and Augustine have said that it will be the delight of the saints to watch the punishment of non-believers.

FWIW, I've read "The Great Divorce" and I remember quite liking it, before I left the faith. And the inescapable torture pit is far from the only fate Christians imagine for me. But in that moment, in that conversation with my dad, I made damn well sure (pun fully intended) that he said that when I died, I would be tortured forever. AND ... that he would be sad about it.

So his options are limited to:

1. Yipee! Look at what a great justice God is bestowing unto my unbelieving child! (In which case he lied).

OR

1. Reality is lesser for the loss of my son, and I mourn that. (In which case God is not all good).

So which part of that was false?

at this point i feel like People just have Something against me.

People typically don’t abuse to abuse, they abuse to control. To tear a person down and rebuild them as they want them to be. When a husband seeks a wife who’s mandated to submit to him as head, isn’t he doing the same?

If the bible says jesus IS god, but also alludes that he is NOT god which are we to believe?

what do yall think of the huge majority of atheist male(or female) YouTubers who tried to debunk Christianity or the concept of a God overrall?

Apart from religious books and their stories (bible/OT, Torah), what good evidence is there for the existence of the OT character called Moses, mass enslavement of Hebrews by the Egyptian, or the exodus of such people en masse and led by Moses (followed by 40 years of wandering in the desert)?

How do you feel, and what do you do, when some forms require you to fill in the “sex” field: male or female?

Personally, I would fill it in if, instead of those options, they used “Mr.” and “Mrs.”

Don’t you find this insulting, as if you were being treated like an animal?

I've been thinking bout this for a while. Any answer would help!

I know this must’ve been asked here dozens of times, but I joined here just to ask this.
Can a Christian who truly believes in God, be forgiven for ending his/her own life?
What if they’re asking for repentance as they’re doing it?

Thank you

Why do people post things in r/TrueChristian seem designed to damage other people's faith in God or start arguments? Maybe the community reinforces their beliefs. For me, seeing these posts makes me feel hopeless and makes salvation seem extremely difficult or impossible, while the people making those posts seem to think they're spiritually ‘in the good.

I've believed in God for as long as I can remember, though I didn't know about Jesus until around the age of 12. It was primarily my grandmother who taught me about him, but I didn't really struggle to believe in God at any later point in my life. God just made sense to me, and I struggle to see how someone can reach adulthood without believing in God.

So I'm asking ex-atheists who have become Christians: What do you believe kept you from believing in God? Do you believe it was primarily due to cognitive dissonance?