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List of Irreconcilable
Passages
 (LIPs)

A simple list of the worst Bible passages selected by the BBD boys (Star-Crossed Buddies) that are absolutely impossible to defend as moral.

God Kills Innocent Animals with a Flood ~ Genesis 7:21-23

And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all human beings; everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

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God Kills Firstborn of Innocent Female Slaves ~ Exodus 11:5

​Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is behind the handmill.

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God Commands Burning Women Alive as Punishment for Sex ~ Leviticus 21:9

When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she shall be burned to death.

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God Condones Slavery ~ Leviticus 25:44-46

As for the male and female slaves whom you may have, it is from the nations around you that you may acquire them. They may be your property. You may keep them as a possession for your children after you, for them to inherit as property. These you may treat as slaves.

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God Murders People with Quails ~ Number 11:31

Then a wind went out from the Lord, and it brought quails from the sea and let them fall beside the camp. So the people worked all that day and night and all the next day gathering the quails. But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.

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Death Penalty for Working on Saturday ~ Numbers​ 15:33-36

Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses. The Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him outside the camp.” The whole congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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God Swallows a Family Alive ~ Numbers 16:29-33

"If these people die a natural death, then the Lord has not sent me. But if the Lord creates something new and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.” As soon as he finished speaking all these words, the ground under them was split apart. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households. So they went down alive into Sheol; the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

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God Suggests Forced Marriage and Rape of Captive Women ~ Deuteronomy 21:11-13

Suppose you see among the captives a beautiful woman whom you desire and want to marry, and so you bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head, pare her nails, discard her captive’s garb, and remain in your house a full month mourning for her father and mother. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

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God Commands Death to Stubborn Children ~ Deuteronomy 21:18-21

If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders. They shall say to the elders of his town, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard." Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death.

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God Removes Free Will and Kills People ~ Joshua 11:20

For it was the Lord’s doing to harden their hearts so that they would come against Israel in battle, in order that they might be utterly destroyed and might receive no mercy but be exterminated, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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God Commands Genocide (Including Children & Infants) ~ 1 Samuel 15:2-3

Thus says the Lord of hosts, "I will punish the Amalekites for what they did in opposing the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and utterly destroy all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”

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God Kills 70,000 Innocent People ~ 2 Samuel 24:15

So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people died.

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God Sends Dogs to Eat a Corpse to Hide Her Body ~ 2 Kings 9:30-37

So they threw her down. Some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, which trampled on her. Then he went in and ate and drank. But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. Jehu said, “This is the word of the Lord: 'The dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel. The corpse of Jezebel shall be like dung on the field, so that no one can say, ‘This is Jezebel.’'”

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God Threatens People with Baby Murder and Rape​ ~ Isaiah 13:15-16

​Whoever is found will be thrust through and whoever is caught will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped.

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God Poisons People as Punishment ~ Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, "I am feeding this people with wormwood and giving them poisonous water to drink. I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them."

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God Threatens Cannibalism ~ Jeremiah 19:9

And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and all shall eat the flesh of their neighbors in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.

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God Brags About Killing Children with his Soldiers ~ Jeremiah 51:20-22

You are my war club, my weapon of battle. With you I smash nations. With you I destroy kingdoms. With you I smash man and woman. With you I smash the old man and the boy. With you I smash the young man and the girl.

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God Kills More Children ~ Ezekiel 9:5-7

The Lord said, “Pass through the city after him and kill. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity. Cut down old men, young men and young women, little children and women.” ...So they went out and killed in the city.

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God Threatens to Kill Children and Pregnant Women ~ Hosea 13:16

Samaria shall bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their little ones shall be dashed in pieces and their pregnant women ripped open.

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The All-Good God Does Bad ~ Amos 9:4

And though they go into captivity in front of their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will fix my eyes on them for harm and not for good.

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Women Shouldn't Talk in Church ~ 1 Chorinthians 14:34

Women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak but should be subordinate, as the law also says.

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God Kills Couple for Keeping Money from the Church ~ Acts 5:1-11

A man named Ananias, with the consent of his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property. With his wife’s knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds. Peter said, “You did not lie to us but to God!” When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died. After three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. Peter said to her, “Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.” Immediately she fell down at his feet and died.

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God Loves Slavery ~ Titus 2:9-10

Urge slaves to be submissive to their masters in everything, to be pleasing, not talking back, 10 not stealing, but showing complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the teaching of God our Savior.

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