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Hmm... have you actually "read" the scriptures yourself? If you had, you wouldn't be asking for a direct link to the passage where Jews were commanded to destroy everyone living in the promised land. They didn't do that, and they were "punished" for it. So, the scripture speaks of faithfulness to God through the extermination of "unbelievers" from within their community. This is the Old Testament. And what about the New Testament? On the one hand, it says "love one another," but on the other hand, it says "the world lies in evil." If "the world lies in evil," then it is not part of God, who cannot be evil by definition. So how can you love one another in a world that "lies in evil"?

As for orgies, ritual sacrifices, and the killing of enemies, if you look at history, there is plenty of this "goodness" in Christianity as well. I would like to note that Christianity was persecuted by pagans for these very human sacrifices, according to Roman historians, i.e., pagans believed that Christians drank the blood of infants, and this was unacceptable to them!!
You'll say that's slander? Yes, it's slander, so why not assume that the orgies, sacrifices, and other abominations attributed to pagans are also slander?

You can read about the so-called "devil's daily work" in the Apostle Peter, which says that "the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." Interestingly, where does he walk? In what dimensions? Perhaps it's a metaphor, and the devil is the dark side of a person's soul? His base passions and delusions? It's just very convenient to talk about "temptations," attributing one's own mistakes to an outside person, supposedly inciting them to commit these mistakes. That is, there is a cunning self-justification in this, which is harmful because a person does not learn from his mistakes, but instead becomes even more wary of the world, looking for the machinations of this very "outsider."
I've already said that I haven't read the Bible much myself, but there was nothing written in it about God "ordering" the Jews to destroy the Amorites. He said, "This land is yours," without saying anything about destroying the local population. The Jews figured that out on their own, although they could have lived in peace with the Amorites. You say that you shouldn't attribute human actions to the devil, but you blame God for human sins. Regarding "the world lies in evil" - that's precisely why you need to love one another. Why love one another if everything is already good? Therefore, God calls people to love, so that they do not sink into evil. The statements about pagans are not slander because they themselves do not deny it. And about the blood of infants - you probably read that in "Soviet" books?:) In Soviet textbooks, anything can be written about God. Regarding the "daily work" - yes, the devil is a spirit, so we don't see him, but he, figuratively speaking, walks among people, looking for vices to latch onto: "That person drinks, let's make him become an alcoholic." There are three wills living in a person: God's will (conscience), the devil's will, and human will (stupidity). You can live in peace and harmony (according to God's will), you can constantly fight and struggle for power by any means (according to the devil's will), or you can cut off the branch you are sitting on (according to human stupidity). For example, factories and plants that could have been made environmentally friendly long ago.

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