Just a few examples:

Following are a few examples of the verses that were posted in the two threads on Tentmaker.

"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all - old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told." (Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)

This is what the Lord of hosts has to say: 'I will punish what Amalek did to Israel when he barred his way as he was coming up from Egypt. Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.' (1 Samuel 15:2-3 NAB)

If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will inflict you with seven more disasters for your sins. I will release wild animals that will kill your children and destroy your cattle, so your numbers will dwindle and your roads will be deserted. (Leviticus 26:21-22 NLT)

See anything wrong with this picture? Is this the God we see in Jesus? As my friend Brian says, "And if you find that you're trying desperately to force yourself to subscribe to some doctrine or theological system that contradicts what your mind and heart says about the God you've come to know...then there's something badly wrong."

Yep...there's something badly wrong with attributing the above verses, and the many, many others in the OT that describe similar situations and events to the God in whom no darkness resides. These verses and the acts they describe are dark indeed.......